Thanks Brian! I'll head over on Monday and grab as many as I can, or see if CS will hold them. I don't have capacity for scanning / digitization right now but at least I can stop them from getting recycled. On Fri, May 30, 2025 at 3:52 PM Brian E Carpenter < brian.e.carpenter@gmail.com> wrote:
It isn't just proceedings. I've come across two cases recently where significant text was missing from IEEE Explore - once in the Annals and once in IEEE Network magazine. Certainly, finding full proceedings of old conferences is often impossible.
Regards Brian Carpenter
Greetings all,
The CS department at UAlberta is moving buildings and clearing out a lot of older texts. I found out rather late and am looking through their discards. I'm wondering if anyone can confirm / affirm that major conference proceedings are generally available? I'm looking at a near complete stack of proceedings (ACM SIGMOD, VLDB, etc.) and it appears that
On 31-May-25 08:42, Eric Kaltman via Members wrote: the official scans are missing front matter and such in some cases.
Just wanted to get any thoughts on whether I should have any concern
about the proceedings or try to keep them somewhere.
Best, Eric
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