Conference Reports

The term "conference reports" primarily refers to publications of lectures which are published by the conference organisers or scientific associations themselves and which have a relatively small print run.
 
Conference publications are available either before the conference (as a preprint), or after the conference in a summary format (abstracts) or as a full report (proceedings). Increasingly, these publications are also being published in an electronic format (as a CD-ROM or DVD) or made available on the Internet.

The TIB has spent 30 years attempting to build up the most comprehensive possible collection of domestic and foreign conference reports from the fields of engineering and natural sciences. Particular consideration has been paid to suggestions for acquisitions and orders submitted by library users. As well as the hard-to-obtain "grey" conference reports, which form a focal point of the TIB collection, our collections also include conference publications available in bookshops. Our catalogues also provide access to a large number of conference reports which have been published in specialist journals subscribed to by the TIB.
 
In addition to print publications, the TIB/UB also provides links to conference data banks  for the LUH campus. Both of the following links present full-text access to the complete proceedings collections of the respective institutions:

• IEEE Xplore of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
• ACM Portal of the Association for Computing Machinery.

All the conference reports are integrated in  GetInfo (document delivery service) and in the catalogue, which allow searches to be performed and orders to be placed online. It is not possible to borrow full conference reports. Nevertheless, the individual contributions to the report can be ordered as copies, or, alternatively, you can view the publications at the library. As a GetInfo customer, you are entitled to request a copy of the table of contents of the required volume, at no charge (where applicable).
 
Should a conference report from the fields of engineering or natural sciences not be present in our catalogue, the TIB will endeavour to acquire it.
 
If you choose to order a conference report which you have been unable to find in the catalogue, please ensure that you provide us with the full details provided at the source where the report was cited. To ensure that your order is successful, the most important information we require is the key conference data, such as the organiser, the title of the conference, and the date and location.