Conferences and symposia are where scientists gather to share the results of their latest research. The records of these meetings may or may not be published or peer-reviewed, but these are the forms that they can take:
Use the tabs below to learn about these formats specific to chemistry and major chemical organizations, along with tools for locating them.
The American Chemical Society publishes abstracts of papers and posters to be presented at technical sessions of the ACS Spring and Fall National Meetings.
NOTE: Unless a paper was also published as a preprint from one of the Divisions (see next tab), or as a postprint within a later symposium volume, there are no full papers -- the abstract is all there is. You should contact the corresponding author for more information, or search SciFinder for later articles based on a meeting presentation.
Abstracts since 1995 (210th meeting) are included in SciFinder. In Chemical Abstracts the title was historically abbreviated as:
"Abstr. Pap. Am. Chem. Soc."; and more recently appears as: "Abstracts of Papers, [N]th ACS National Meeting, [place], [date]".
The abstracts were published on CD-ROM. In 2007 the title changed to Abstracts of scientific papers. (While the CD-ROMs are still held in our collection, their software is obsolete and may not function properly.)
Abstracts of papers - American Chemical Society were published as printed volumes. This is the ONLY source for these abstracts from 1937 to 1995. The library has the entire print collection in storage. No abstracts were published before 1937.
For many years, various technical divisions of the American Chemical Society published short preprints of their symposium papers in advance of national meetings.
(Note: These meeting preprints are not the same thing as journal preprints, which are papers posted to sites such as ArXiv and ChemRxiv prior to peer-review in journals.)
Division | Title | ACS Web Access (1) | UT Archival Holdings (2) |
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ENFL (3) |
Energy & Fuel Preprints (published 2012-2016) |
2012-2016 | CD-ROM 2012-2014 |
ENVR | Environmental Chemistry Division Preprints Extended Abstracts (published 1973-2008) |
(not subscribed) |
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FUEL (3) |
Fuel Chemistry Preprints (published 1957-2012) |
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PETR (3) |
Petroleum Preprints (published 1942-2012) |
1956-2012 | |
PMSE (4) |
Polymeric Materials Science and Engineering (published 1960-2015 under various titles) |
2001-2015 | |
POLY |
Polymer Preprints (published 1962-2012) |
2000-2012 |
NOTES
Full papers from selected topical symposia held at ACS meetings are later published as proceedings volumes.
All volumes in these two series are individually cataloged. Search for them in the Library Catalog by series title + volume number as keywords (e.g. KW= acs symposium 1081), or by individual book title.
The American Institute of Chemical Engineers holds Spring and Annual meetings.
The ECS Transactions can be searched or browsed for conference papers from ECS national meetings.
The ECS published print conference proceedings until 2005. These books are individually cataloged in the Library Catalog by conference name and title, under the series heading Proceedings (Electrochemical Society) plus a year/volume number. UT's holdings are mostly complete after 1988. If you have a reference to a paper such as
Proc. Electrochem. Soc. 97-12
search for this volume in the Catalog using keywords:
proceedings electrochemical 97-12 [hyphen required]
The Web of Science platform currently also provides temporary access to several databases that are not part of the Core Collection, including Biosis Citation Index, Data Citation Index, and Zoological Record.
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