Proceedings
Proceedings are minutes: a written account of what transpired at a meeting. The most common form today is, however, that the Proceedings contains the paper presented at a conference, and is printed before the conference takes place and distributed to the participants at the start.
A number of academic journals also use the term proceedings in their titles.
Literature:
Allen, R. S. (1995). The magnitude of conference proceedings published in
physics journals. Special Libraries, 86(2), 136-144.
Funk, M. E. & Reid, C. A. (1988). The usefulness of
monographic proceedings. Bulletin of the Medical Library Association, 76(1),
14-21.
Lipscombe, T. (2000). The greatest story ever sold: The pitfalls of publishing proceedings, etc. Journal of Scholarly Publishing, 31(4), 179-188. http://www.utpjournals.com/jour.ihtml?lp=product/jsp/314/314_lipscombe.html
Sigogneau, A. (2000). An analysis of document types published in journals related to physics: Proceeding papers recorded in the Science Citation Index database. Scientometrics, 47(3), 589-604.
InterDok. The Directory of Published Proceedings (DoPP): http://www.interdok.com/dopp/dopp_search.cfm
Birger Hjørland
Last edited: 17-10-2006