Finding & Verifying
Locate proceedings papers, check that a reference is real, and make links last.
Proceedings papers are scattered across publisher libraries, open repositories, bibliographic databases and personal pages. Knowing where to look, and how to confirm that what you found is the real, current record, saves time and avoids bad references.
This section covers search strategy, verification, indexing claims, persistent identifiers and the problem of links that stop working.
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- How to Find Workshop and Conference Proceedings PapersPractical search strategy for workshop and conference papers: Google Scholar, DBLP, OpenAlex, publisher libraries, repositories and citation chaining.
- How to Verify That a Citation Is Real and CorrectStep-by-step check that a reference is real and correct: search the title, resolve the DOI, compare Crossref and DBLP, and spot fabricated or AI citations.
- DBLP: Searching Computer Science BibliographiesWhat the dblp computer science bibliography is, what it covers, how to search authors, venues and volumes, export BibTeX, and where its limits lie.
- Is a Proceedings Series Indexed in Scopus or Web of Science?What indexing means, how to check a proceedings series in the Scopus source list and the Clarivate Master Journal List, and why website claims can be wrong.
- Proceedings Repositories Compared: ACL Anthology, ACM DL, IEEE Xplore, PMLR, CEUR-WS and MoreA neutral overview of places that publish or host proceedings: ACL Anthology, ACM DL, IEEE Xplore, Springer, PMLR, OpenReview, CEUR-WS.org, arXiv, Zenodo.
- Open Access Proceedings: How to Find and Reuse ThemLearn what gold, green and diamond open access mean for proceedings papers, and how to find legal free copies with Unpaywall, CORE and repositories.
- DOI, ISSN, ISBN, URN and ORCID: Identifiers for ProceedingsWhat a DOI, ISSN, ISBN, URN and ORCID iD each identify, how to check them, how Crossref and DataCite differ, and what to do when a paper has no DOI.
- Link Rot: Archiving the Web Pages and PDFs You CiteWhy web links break and how to protect your references: Wayback Machine Save Page Now, repository deposits, DOIs, archived-copy citations and accessed dates.