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51-403: Founder Robert Snyder's son Andrew is chief executive officer and his daughter Jill is director of communications. CIG was founded in 1971 by Robert Snyder and Philip Hixon as a result of a merger of Cambridge Scientific Abstracts (CSA), Disclosure Incorporated , and National Standards Association . The latter were sold by 1993, and the core CSA reference work expanded into the social sciences,

102-539: A United States publishing company is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Cambridge Scientific Abstracts Cambridge Scientific Abstracts (later simply CSA ) was a division of Cambridge Information Group and provider of online databases , based in Bethesda, Maryland , before merging with ProQuest of Ann Arbor, Michigan , in 2007. CSA hosted databases of abstracts and developed taxonomic indexing of scholarly articles. These databases were hosted on

153-506: A binary accept/reject decision, others go through more thorough feedback and revisions cycles ( peer reviewing or refereeing). Depending on the level of the conference, this process can take up to a year. The editors decide about the composition of the proceedings, the order of the papers, and produce the preface and possibly other pieces of text. Although most changes in papers occur on basis of consensus between editors and authors, editors can also single-handedly make changes in papers. Since

204-408: A controlled vocabulary (12,500 terms) also references items such as cited references, corresponding author's e-mail address, and publisher contact information. With a file size of 1,372,711 records (July 2010), an update frequency of once per month, about 40,000 records are added each year, and temporal coverage is from 1966 to present day. Global coverage pertains to research and application, which

255-482: A monthly update of approximately 100,000 records, and temporal coverage from 1962 to the present. It is indexed by references, abstracts, and 40,000 controlled vocabulary terms. The Aerospace and High Technology Database is a bibliographic database covering the space sciences as well as aeronautics and astronautics. This database also provides access to complementary disciplines, such as electronics, chemistry, physics, geoscience, and communications. The print equivalent

306-552: A textbook. This may even be a goal at the outset of the conference. Conference proceedings are published in-house by the organizing institution of the conference or via an academic publisher . For example, the Lecture Notes in Computer Science by Springer take much of their input from proceedings. Conference proceedings also get published through dedicated proceedings series as an edited volume where all their inputs comes from

357-588: Is International Aerospace Abstracts (IAA) and Scientific and Technical Aerospace Reports (STAR from 1986 to 1993). The Aerospace & High Technology Database began as two print publications, International Aerospace Abstracs (IAA) and Scientific and Technical Reports (STAR) Index . These were then incorporated into the Aerospace Database , produced by the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics . International Aerospace Abstracts

408-565: Is " Information service in Mechanical Engineering Bulletin ". Temporal coverage for Mechanical Engineering Abstracts is from 1981 to 2002. Current information, beyond its temporal coverage, is not part of this database. Current information is located in Mechanical & Transportation Engineering Abstracts (see next section below). As of May 2010, this database contained more than 215,700 records. Engineering Information

459-711: Is a co-publisher of this database. Global in scope, broad subject coverage comprises theory and application in mechanical engineering , engineering management , and Production engineering . Format coverage consists of scientific journals, articles, conference papers, methods, developments, and conclusions (including research results ). The target audience is specialists, researchers , and engineers. Further subject coverage includes all aspects of Mechanical engineering. Other subjects, which are covered in this database, are Aerospace engineering , Automotive engineering , Naval architecture and Marine engineering , Railroad engineering , and Materials handling . Nuclear technology

510-660: Is added from more than 2,500 other sources such as monographs and conference proceedings. Temporal coverage is from 1990 to the present and the oldest record was published in 1973. Environmental Periodicals Bibliography (EPB), established in 1972, by the Environmental Studies Institute of the International Academy at Santa Barbara. This database contains more than 500,000 indexed citations, covering all environmental topics in scientific, technical, and popular journals. Comperehensive coverage of 500 journals

561-838: Is also included in this database. Citations are arranged by journal title and publisher, and when there are links to their respective cites, these are made available. CSA Illumina is a web access point, and this database is on CD-ROM as well. Authors are ProQuest - CSA Illumina and the University of Southern California . This database covers the relevant literature pertaining to public health , safety, and industrial hygiene . This also includes risks, hazards, and plausible solutions that affect individuals. Topical coverage includes aviation safety, aerospace safety, environmental safety , nuclear safety , medical safety , occupational safety , ergonomics , pollution , waste disposal , radiation, pesticides , epidemics, "and countless other phenomena having

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612-477: Is also part of this database covering: Fluid flow , Hydraulics , Pneumatics , and Vacuum Technology . Heat and Thermodynamics covers Industrial furnaces , process heating, space heating , air conditioning , refrigeration , and cryogenics . CSA Mechanical & Transportation Engineering Abstracts provides citations, abstracts, and indexing of the literature in mechanical and transportation engineering and other supporting engineering fields. This database

663-759: Is approximately from 1981 to the present, with the oldest record at 1961, 50% of the database indexes from 1994 to the present. Literature coverage spans periodicals, conference proceedings, technical reports, trade journal/newsletter items, patents, books, and press releases. It is updated monthly and 25,000 records are added annually. As of June 2013 this database contained more than 1,733,000 records. Engineered Materials Abstracts , established in 1986, provides in-depth coverage of polymers, ceramics, and composites, including complex and advanced materials. The processes involving these materials such as research, manufacturing practices, properties and applications are also cited in this database. This electronic database also contains

714-455: Is arranged first by 11 broad subject divisions, then within these divisions by 76 subject categories and includes two indexes: subject and author. CSA Solid State and Superconductivity Abstracts ( ISSN   0896-5900 ) provides online, international, coverage encompassing all aspects of theory, production, and application of solid state materials and devices. High and low temperature superconductivity technologies are included. Coverage

765-773: Is bibliographic platform that is updated monthly with temporal coverage from 1962 to the present. It combines a number of secondary databases: the Materials Research Database with METADEX (see above), the CSA High Technology Research Database with Aerospace (see above), and the CSA Engineering Research Database. Formats covered are periodicals, conference proceedings, technical reports, trade journal items, newsletter items, patents, books, and press releases. Subject coverage ranges across scientific and technology disciplines and includes

816-423: Is coverage of earthquake engineering and earthquake hazard mitigation. This database contains 181,380 records which are full citations and abstracts, 52,000 journal articles, indexes and abstracts of major earthquake engineering research journals, along with 40,000 abstracts of proceedings (includes major meetings). 22,000 other records include abstracts of research monographs and technical reports. Coverage of sources

867-429: Is database serves the ceramics industry. Coverage spans available global literature on the manufacture, processing, applications, properties and testing of traditional and advanced ceramics. In addition, this database is indexed for more than 3,000 published works of various formats such scientific and technical literature including monographs. Temporal coverage is generally from 1975 to the present day. The oldest record in

918-470: Is followed by performance, corrosion, and recycling, as related to all metals, alloys, polymers, ceramics, and composites. In addition, this database is indexed for more than 3,000 relevant publications of various types, or groupings, which are related to scientific journal content. This database comprises the following: Sociological Abstracts (SocioAbs) is a reliable and authoritative bibliographic resource that provide citations, abstracts, and indexing of

969-600: Is for more than 3,0000 periodicals, conference proceedings, technical reports, trade journal/newsletter items, patents, books, and press releases. Temporal coverage is from 1971 until present day. Electronics and Communications Abstracts indexes the fields of electronic engineering and communications; including theory, experiments, materials, equipment, and applications. Major subject areas are theory, circuits, components and materials, control and systems, power systems, telecommunications, Photonics, and subjects related to electronics or Electronic communications. Temporal coverage

1020-406: Is from approximately 1981 to the present day. The oldest record in the database has a publication date of 1970. About 50% of this database has records which were published since 1992. The database is updated once a month. Approximately 40,000 new records are added each year. As of June 2010, Solid State and Superconductivity Abstracts contains more than 967,000 records. There is a print equivalent of

1071-1205: Is indexed for more than 10,000 relevant publications of various types, or groupings, which are related to scientific journal content. Dates of coverage span from 1967 to present day. The update frequency is once a month, and approximately 6,000 new records are added each month. As of June 2010 the size of the database is more than 3,366,269 records. Temporal coverage is from 1967 to the present day. General topical or subject coverage includes air, marine, and freshwater pollution; detection, monitoring, and analysis of pollution; effects of oil spills; point and non-point pollution; sewage and wastewater treatment; industrial and municipal disposal of sludge; hazardous wastes and refuse; toxicology of pesticides; heavy metals; agricultural chemicals; risk assessment, and environmental action; among other topics. Coverage of sources spans journal articles, conference proceedings, books and government publications. " Environmental Sciences & Pollution Management " consists of twelve component or sub-file bibliographic databases that can be accessed independently. These are: Environmental Engineering Abstracts provides abstracting and full bibliographic citation coverage of

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1122-409: Is indexed for more than 3,000 relevant publications of various types which are related to scientific journal content. Dates of coverage are from 1966 to the present. The oldest record in the database has a publication date of 1895; about 50% of its records have publication dates of 1988 or later. The update frequency is once a month, and approximately 40,000 new records are added per year. CSA METADEX

1173-545: Is the database equivalent of Metals Abstracts , Metals Abstracts Index , and Alloys Index . It specializes in covering all topics pertaining to metals and alloys , which includes their properties, manufacturing, applications, and development. METADEX was established in 1966, and now contains more than 1,425,000 references. In addition, this database is indexed for more than 3,000 relevant publications of various types, or groupings, which are related to scientific journal content. Dates of coverage begin from, approximately, 1966 to

1224-511: Is updated monthly with approximately 30,000 records per year, and its total size exceeds 913,900 records. Subjects covered are culture, social structure, demography, human biology, economic development environmental issues, family life conditions, social welfare, health, medicine, and law. Other subjects across the sociological spectrum are also included such as development, differentiation, arts, business, education, substance abuse, addiction, and women's studies. CSA Technology Research Database

1275-537: Is updated on a monthly basis. This database accesses periodicals, conference proceedings, technical reports, trade journals (including newsletter items), patents, books, and press releases. Non-serial publications are also covered. Research and application pertains to Artificial Intelligence, Computer Applications, Computer Programming, Computer Systems Organization, Computing Milieux Hardware, Information Systems, Mathematics of Computing, and Software Engineering. The primary focus of Earthquake Engineering Abstracts (EEA)

1326-409: Is updated once per month, and approximately 20,000 new records are added each year. As of June 2010 the size of the database is more than 796,357 records. As a subfile of Engineered Materials Abstracts the focus of Advanced Polymers Abstracts is technical information about the uses, manufacturing, and properties of thermoset and thermoplastic resins. These materials are competing with metals to be

1377-411: Is usually not as high as that of international scientific journals . However, in computer science , papers published in conference proceedings are accorded a higher status than in other fields, due to the fast-moving nature of the field. A number of full-fledged academic journals unconnected to particular conferences also use the word "proceedings" as part of their name, for example, Proceedings of

1428-615: The CSA Illumina platform and were available alongside add-on products like CSA Illustrata (deep-indexing of tables and figures). The company produced numerous bibliographic databases in different fields of the arts and humanities , natural and social sciences , and technology . Thus, coverage included materials science, environmental sciences and pollution management, biological sciences, aquatic sciences and fisheries, biotechnology, engineering, computer science, sociology, linguistics, and other areas. Aluminium Industry Abstracts (AIA)

1479-515: The National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America . Conference proceedings may be published as a book or book series , in a journal , or otherwise as a serial publication (see examples ). In many cases, impact factors are not available, although other journal metrics (such as Google Scholar h-index and Scimago -metrics) might exist. Bibliographic indexing often

1530-559: The arts and the humanities. CIG purchased R. R. Bowker in 2001 and Sotheby's Institute of Art in 2003. As of 2007, CIG's operating companies were ProQuest , R. R. Bowker, and CIG Education Group, owner of Sotheby's Institute of Art, and Bach to Rock music school (B2R). In 2016, CIG sold investments in Navtech and MetaMetrics. On December 1, 2021, CIG sold ProQuest to Clarivate for $ 5.3 billion. On June 10, 2022, CIG acquired Emerald Group Publishing . This article about

1581-476: The available global literature which pertains to technological and engineering aspects of air and water quality, environmental safety, and energy production. General subject coverage spans relevant literature about mines and quarry equipment, nuclear power plants, thermoelectric energy, tidal and wind power, treatment of sewage and industrial wastes, water analysis and treatment techniques are included. 500 primary journals are indexed and abstracted. Relevant literature

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1632-404: The collection of papers comes from individual researchers, the character of proceedings is distinctly different from an educational textbook. Each paper typically is quite isolated from the other papers in the proceedings. Mostly there is no general argument leading from one contribution to the next. In some cases, the editors of the proceedings may decide to further develop the proceedings into

1683-521: The complementary fields of forensic engineering , engineering services management, engineering services marketing, engineering education, theoretical mechanics , theoretical dynamics, and computational studies. Serial and non-serial publications are part of this database. More than 3,000 abstracted titles encompass, books, conference proceedings , trade journal , scientific journals , technical journals, patents , government reports, dissertations, monographs newsletters, and press releases . Indexing with

1734-697: The conference opens or after it has closed. A less common, broader meaning of proceedings are the acts and happenings of an academic field , a learned society . For example, the title of the Acta Crystallographica journals is Neo-Latin for "Proceedings in Crystallography "; the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America is the main journal of that academy. Scientific journals whose ISO 4 title abbreviations start with Proc , Acta , or Trans are journals of

1785-429: The conference papers. For example, AIJR Proceedings series published by academic publisher AIJR . Publication of proceedings as edited volume in such series are different from publishing conference paper in the journals; also known as conference issue. Increasingly, proceedings are published in electronic format via the internet or on CD, USB, etc. In the sciences, the quality of publications in conference proceedings

1836-399: The contributions made by researchers at the conference. They are the written record of the work that is presented to fellow researchers. In many fields, they are published as supplements to academic journals ; in some, they are considered the main dissemination route; in others they may be considered grey literature . They are usually distributed in printed or electronic volumes, either before

1887-458: The database has a publication date of 1971. This database is updated once per month, and approximately 15,000 new records are added each year. The size of the database is more than 454,000 records. The print equivalent for this database is World Ceramics Abstracts and Ceramic Abstracts . CSA/ASCE Civil Engineering Abstracts encompasses global, indexing, and abstracting coverage of civil engineering technical literature. Coverage also includes

1938-497: The level of specialist are accessible, collected from the disciplines of materials science, metallurgy, ceramics, polymers, and composites used in engineering application. For all metals, alloys, polymers, ceramics, and composites in depth coverage of the industrial process is covered. This means, in depth coverage of raw materials, their processing and refining is included. The chain of processing continues with in depth coverage also of welding and fabrication developed for end uses. This

1989-488: The literature in sociology and related disciplines in the social and behavioral sciences . More specifically, abstracts of journal articles, books, book chapters, dissertations, conference papers, and citations for book reviews are indexed in a serially classified database of almost 2,000 publications. The database has been updated to include access to the complete backfiles of the print versions of Sociological Abstracts from its beginnings in 1952 through today. This database

2040-427: The literature of materials science, aerospace, construction, mechanical engineering, electrical engineering, and information science. This database indexes more than 17.5 million records. Conference proceedings In academia and librarianship, conference proceedings are a collection of academic papers published in the context of an academic conference or workshop. Conference proceedings typically contain

2091-531: The material for structures. The broad topical coverage includes molding, thermoplastic elastomers, extrusion, materials development, polymer blends, joining, bonding, synthesis, PVC, chain structure, performance testing, compounding, and filled plastics. This database provides abstracting and full bibliographic citation coverage of the available global literature which pertains to environmental sciences and pollution management. This database can link to full-text electronic journal articles. In addition, this database

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2142-689: The most recent additions to the NASA Aeronautics and Space Database. Through this resource, the NASA STI Program provides timely access to the most current aerospace-related research and development (R&D) results. STAR subject coverage includes all aspects of aeronautics and space research and development, supporting basic and applied research, and application, as well as aerospace aspects of Earth resources, energy development, conservation, oceanography, environmental protection, urban transportation and other topics of high national priority. The listing

2193-501: The potential to threaten the public, the environment, or the workplace itself...". The equivalent printed form is "Health and Safety Science Abstracts (1981–2003)". The CSA High Technology Research Database is a major abstracting and indexing database and category in the CSA Illumina database structure. It is considered to be the online equivalent of International Aerospace Abstracts (IAA) and Scientific and Technical Aerospace Reports (STAR from 1962 to 1993). These are also listed as

2244-432: The present day. The oldest record in the database has a publication date of 1939. However, about 50% of its records have publication dates of 1986 or later. METADEX is updated once a month. Approximately 45,000 new records are added per year. As of June 2010, this database contained more than 7,058,162 records. Notable material science databases are combined under CSA Materials Research Database with METADEX . Contents up to

2295-609: The print counterparts. It comprises four subtitles: The database covers theory, experimentation, application, emerging technologies, and companies that are involved in the space sciences (including aeronautics and astronautics ), computer & information technology , solid state materials (including solid state devices), communications, chemistry geoscience , and finally electronics . Further research, application, and development coverage includes more than 40 countries including Japan and Eastern European nations. More than 10.7 million records are available (February 2011), with

2346-468: The proceedings (transactions) of a field or of an organization concerned with it, in that secondary meaning of the word. Selecting and collecting papers for conferences is organized by one or more persons, who form the editorial team . The quality of the papers is typically ensured by having external people read the papers before they are accepted in the proceedings. The level of quality control varies considerably from conference to conference: some have only

2397-482: The same name. Mechanical Engineering Abstracts is a continuation of the formerly named " ISMEC Bulletin " (v.1, no.1, July 10, 1973) ( ISSN   0306-0039 ), which appears to have ceased under this title in December, 1987 (v. 20, no.6). ISMEC Bulletin was published by Cambridge Scientific Abstracts . Now, Mechanical Engineering Abstracts is also known as " ISMEC, Mechanical Engineering Abstracts ". Another title

2448-437: The sub-files named Ceramics, Composites and Polymers. In addition, this database is indexed for more than 3,000 relevant publications of various types, or groupings, which are related to scientific journal content. Dates of coverage span from approximately 1986 to present day. The oldest record in the database has a publication date of 1953. Furthermore, about 50% of its records have publication dates of 1993 or later. This database

2499-797: Was formerly known as World Aluminum Abstracts (WAA). Topical coverage in the technical literature includes aluminum, production processes, products, applications, and business applications. Coverage of the sources include periodicals, technical reports, conference proceedings, patents, trade journals, press releases, and books. Subject coverage, in broad categories, of this database is the aluminum industry (including end uses of aluminum), aluminum intermetallics, business information, engineering testing and properties, extractive metallurgy , melting, casting, and foundry, metalworking, extraction, patents, metallurgy engineering, and quality control (including testing). CSA publishes Ceramic Abstracts / World Ceramics Abstracts in conjunction with CERAM Research Ltd. This

2550-699: Was part of the International Aeronautical Abstracts section of the publication entitled Aerospace Engineering ( ISSN   0096-669X ). According to the NASA website: Effective May 2011, Scientific and Technical Aerospace Reports (STAR) is being retired, along with several other NASA scientific and technical information products. Scientific and Technical Aerospace Reports (STAR) is an information resource listing citations and abstracts of NASA and worldwide aerospace-related scientific and technical information (STI). Updated biweekly, STAR highlights

2601-700: Was published by the Technical Information Service of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics , with an ISSN   0020-5842 . Other previous authors was National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) and the Institute of the Aerospace Sciences . It was published alternately with the Scientific and Technical Aerospace Reports in 1963. International Aerospace Abstracts

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