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.

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    Brian Carpenter

On 31-May-25 08:42, Eric Kaltman via Members wrote:
> 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 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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> Dr. Eric Kaltman, Assistant Professor
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> Media and Technology Studies / History
> University of Alberta
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