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Searching the Conference Field

The Conference field allows you to search the following fields within a record for conference proceedings papers.

• Conference Title
• Conference Location
• Conference Date
• Conference Sponsor

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Enter one or more terms connected with search operators (AND, OR, NOT, NEAR). Enter complete words and phrases or partial words and phrases using wildcards (* $ ?).

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About the Conference Field

The Conference field allows you to search for records of conference proceedings.

You must have a subscription to one or both Conference Proceedings citation indexes to search for and to view conference records.

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Conference Search Examples

• Allergy AND Acapulco

• American Diabetes Association AND New Orleans

• Fiber Optics AND Photonics AND India AND 2000

• Scientific Meeting AND Heart AND (UK OR United Kingdom)

• European Congress AND Clinical Microbiology AND Stockholm AND Sweden

• Component Engineering AND Canada AND 2004

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Combining Search Fields

If you are looking for a particular proceedings paper, you might do a search by Conference and Topic or by Conference and Author.

TOPIC: graphite electrode*
CONFERENCE: lithium AND Scotland AND 1998

AUTHOR: Edstrom K*
CONFERENCE: lithium AND Scotland AND 1998

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Search Tip

Use the AND search operator to combine search terms in the Conference field.

Often, just one or two words connected by AND will be enough to search for a particular meeting.

For example, lithium AND Scotland AND 1998 find records of papers from the 9th International Meeting on Lithium Batteries, Edinburgh, Scotland, July 12-17, 1998.

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Did You Know ...

Some records in Web of Science can be classified as both Article and Proceedings Paper.