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Finding Meeting Abstracts Published by Health Sciences Associations |
Identifying abstracts of presentations and posters at the annual meeting of scientific societies can be notoriously difficult to find. Here are a few tips to locating these references:
The Bio-Medical Library maintains a list of health science associations and how they publish their meeting abstracts (whether in print or electronic formats). Go to: http://www.biomed.lib.umn.edu/hmed/list.html to see the list of associations.
It may be possible to find a citation to a meeting abstract in a journal article, book, or book chapter. The following databases index conference proceedings in the health sciences:
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Search for conference titles, locations, and dates by using the Meeting field (available through the ‘More Fields’ link in the Ovid interface)
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BioMed Central (http://www.biomedcentral.com/meetings/) has a small collection of meeting abstracts published in BMC journals
Google (http://www.google.com) can be useful for finding organizations. Be sure to put the assocation name within quotes.
Medscape Today (http://www.medscape.com/medscapetoday/conferences) lists conferences but doesn't have abstracts for papers or posters