Proceedings

Under the conference proceedings or conference proceedings or a conference proceedings (English Proceedings, events ) is a publication of contributions to conferences, congresses, conferences Scientific, usually understood in book form. The form and content of conference proceedings can be very different depending on the subject and culture of conference. The following remarks, therefore, are examples, not generally applicable standards.

Content and structure

As a rule, conference proceedings contain the written report of lectures (Invited Papers Presented Papers ), unless it has been communicated to the editors of the conference proceedings of the authors and the editorial deadline. You should not deviate too much from the content of the oral presentation, if this is possible with a mostly predetermined page number. In addition, conference proceedings often contain a table of contents and a list of meeting participants, and sometimes keynote speeches ( " Keynotes " ) and summaries of discussions, resolutions and the like.

According to the Professional Association Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers ( IEEE) Proceedings printed always have at least the following form. The proceedings are divided into four areas: envelope ( with book cover and spine ), Front Matter (with title page, Copyright Notice and table of contents), content and attachment with authors.

If a Proceedings of the IEEE does not print, but published only in electronic form, he has at least the following form: a title page, a page with a copyright notice and the actual journal article.

Even contributions that were presented instead as a lecture in a poster session or had to be omitted due to special reasons, are often added ( in abbreviated form ) in the publication.

Publication and its influence on the content

While many conference volumes appear several months after the Congress, now go over to some organizers, the contributions to print before the conference and provide the participants (possibly surcharge ) is available. The opinions about the advantages and disadvantages of this approach are divided, particularly on the questions of whether this is the visit of the meeting and the timeliness of the beneficial contributions.

Appears conference proceedings after the fact, in some cases, a summary ( table template information sheet) lecture, or a preprint by the authors is applied. This often occurs in book form and is used to document the whole meeting. Complemented such a tape is then sometimes with photos of the event, interviews and introductions usually prominent authors. Also sometimes tries several months after the meeting timeliness of the conference proceedings by finding current developments in a particular subject by a specialist essay consideration.

In addition, there are certain magazines that have specialized in the publication of articles, which were present as oral or poster presentation at a meeting. Sometimes, special issues of journals are published for that purpose. The requirement in both cases that the contribution within a relatively short period of time after the meeting (typically 6-8 weeks) is submitted. This special issue of a journal is sometimes not published by the regular editor of the magazine, but from the organizers of the conference as a so-called " Guest Editor ". Advantage of the method is that of a normal conference proceedings present much more detailed information and quotable, but usually only about a year after the conference, and that too not completely, because usually there is no obligation for writing such a publication. It is advantageous for the authors of these publications, to come up with relatively little extra effort to a citable publication. In addition, the Akzeptierungsquote is higher than in normal scientific publications in such proceedings publications, because usually less appraisers are used for the peer review. Furthermore, let publish " recycled " information, ie Works that are at least partially already published elsewhere.

The Proceedings of large congresses appear mostly in bound form, followed by some publishers have ( in Europe, for example, Springer and Elsevier ) specialized. Smaller conferences are published for reasons of cost rather in offset printing and stapled form, frequently. Well in serials for dissertations or research papers from institutes Also, sometimes Proceedings published only on CD, you get next to the " Book of Abstracts ", ie a list of abstracts for orientation, which are the lectures offered interesting. In this case, short publications on the CD are mostly of 1-5 pages included, while the printed version contains only abstracts with a maximum length of half a page.