{"id":463,"date":"2015-12-14T09:33:10","date_gmt":"2015-12-13T20:33:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/deborahfitchett.com\/blog\/?p=463"},"modified":"2016-03-31T09:09:57","modified_gmt":"2016-03-30T20:09:57","slug":"progress-report-on-how-youve-helped-my-research","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deborahfitchett.com\/blog\/2015\/12\/progress-report-on-how-youve-helped-my-research\/","title":{"rendered":"Progress report on how you&#8217;ve helped my research"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>At this point at least 20 people have <a href=\"http:\/\/deborahfitchett.com\/blog\/2015\/09\/help-me-research-conference-proceedings-and-open-access\/\">helped me look for conference proceedings<\/a> (some haven&#8217;t left a name so it&#8217;s somewhere between 20 and 42), which is awesome: thank you all so much! Last week saw us pass the halfway mark, an exciting moment. As of this morning, statistics are:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>1187 out of 1958 conferences investigated = 59% done<\/li>\n<li>312 have proceedings free online (26%)<\/li>\n<li>of those without free proceedings, 292 have non-free proceedings online<\/li>\n<li>of those without any online proceedings, 109 have physical proceedings (especially books or CDs)<\/li>\n<li>472 have no identifiable proceedings (40%)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I&#8217;ve got locations for all 1958, pending some checking. Remember this is out of conferences that New Zealand researchers presented at and nominated for their 2012 PBRF portfolio.<\/p>\n<p>The top countries are:<br \/>\nNew Zealand\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0492<br \/>\nAustralia\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0315<br \/>\nUSA\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0304<br \/>\nUK\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0133<br \/>\nCanada\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a069<br \/>\n(with China close behind at 68)<\/p>\n<p>In New Zealand, top cities are predictably:<br \/>\nAuckland\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0154<br \/>\nWellington\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a098<br \/>\nChristchurch\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a053<br \/>\nDunedin\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a038<br \/>\nHamilton\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a035<\/p>\n<p>Along the way I&#8217;ve noticed some things that make the search harder:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>sometimes authors, or the people verifying their sources, made mistakes in the citation<\/li>\n<li>or sometimes people cited the proceedings instead of the conference itself &#8211; this isn&#8217;t a mistake in the context of the original data entry but makes reconciling the year and the city difficult.<\/li>\n<li>or sometimes their citation was perfectly clear, but my attempt to extract the data into tidy columns introduced&#8230; misunderstandings (aka terrible, terrible mistakes).<\/li>\n<li>or we&#8217;ve ended up searching for the same conference a whole pile of times because various people call it the Annual Conference of X, the Annual X Conference, the X Annual Conference, the International Conference of X, the Annual Meeting of X, etc etc.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>On the other hand I&#8217;ve also noticed some things that make the search easier &#8211; either for me:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>having done so many, I&#8217;m starting to recognise titles, so I can search the spreadsheet and often copy\/paste a line<\/li>\n<li>when all else fails I have access to the source data, so I can look up the title of the paper if I need to figure out whether I&#8217;m trying to find the 2008 or 2009 conference.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>And things that could be generally helpful:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>if a conference makes any mention of ACM, whether in the title or as a sponsor, then chances are the proceedings are listed in <a href=\"http:\/\/dl.acm.org\/proceedings.cfm\">http:\/\/dl.acm.org\/proceedings.cfm<\/a><\/li>\n<li>if it mentions IEEE, try <a href=\"http:\/\/ieeexplore.ieee.org\/browse\/conferences\/title\/\">http:\/\/ieeexplore.ieee.org\/browse\/conferences\/title\/<\/a>\u00a0 If it&#8217;s there, then on the page for the appropriate year, scroll down and look on the right for the &#8220;Purchase print from partner&#8221; link &#8211; chances are you&#8217;ll get a page with an ISBN for the print option; plus confirming the location which is harder to find on IEEEXplore itself.<\/li>\n<li>if it&#8217;s about computer science in any way, shape or form, then <a href=\"http:\/\/dblp.uni-trier.de\/search\/\">http:\/\/dblp.uni-trier.de\/search\/<\/a> can probably point you to the source(s). This is the best way to find anything published as a Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) because Springer&#8217;s site doesn&#8217;t search for conferences very well.<\/li>\n<li>if you do a web search and see a search result for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.conferencealerts.com\">www.conferencealerts.com<\/a>, this will confirm the year\/title\/location of a conference, and give you an event website (which may or may not still be around, but it&#8217;s a start). Unfortunately I haven&#8217;t found a way to search the site directly for past conferences.<\/li>\n<li>a search result for WorldCat will usually confirm year\/title\/location and (if you scroll down past the holding libraries) often give you the ISBN for the print proceedings.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>And two things that have delighted me:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Finding some online proceedings in the form of a page listing all the papers&#8217; DOIs &#8211; which resolve to the papers on Dropbox.<\/li>\n<li>Two of the conferences in the dataset have no identifiable city\/country &#8211; because they were held entirely online.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I I am of course still eagerly soliciting help, if anyone has 10 minutes here or there over the next month (take a break from the silly season? \ud83d\ude42\u00a0 Check out my <a href=\"http:\/\/deborahfitchett.com\/blog\/2015\/09\/help-me-research-conference-proceedings-and-open-access\/\">original post<\/a> for more, or jump <a href=\"https:\/\/docs.google.com\/spreadsheets\/d\/1vFzOczBDLfP0QBlXKHLQUqvI4u4FzWHk1uq7xRyKu_I\/edit#gid=231897649\">straight to the spreadsheet<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At this point at least 20 people have helped me look for conference proceedings (some haven&#8217;t left a name so it&#8217;s somewhere between 20 and 42), which is awesome: thank you all so much! Last week saw us pass the halfway mark, an exciting moment. As of this morning, statistics are: 1187 out of 1958 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[57,20,269,4,93],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deborahfitchett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/463"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/deborahfitchett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/deborahfitchett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deborahfitchett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deborahfitchett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=463"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/deborahfitchett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/463\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":464,"href":"https:\/\/deborahfitchett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/463\/revisions\/464"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deborahfitchett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=463"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deborahfitchett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=463"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deborahfitchett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=463"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}