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Open access to conference proceedings: The great hunt for proceedings referenced in the 2012 PBRF round

Authors
Fitchett, Deborah
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Conference Contribution - unpublished
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Learning, Teaching and Library
Keywords
open access, conference proceedings, scholarly communication
Fields of Research
ANZSRC::080706 Librarianship, ANZSRC::130103 Higher Education
Abstract
Conferences are where a huge amount of research gets its first public airing, yet conference papers are notoriously hard to track down after the fact. Large amounts of scholarly information are lost to the world due to conference proceedings being closed access, being deleted from websites, or never even being collated. But just how much is lost and how much is still available? In 2015-16 I sourced a dataset of all conference outputs listed as Nominated Research Outputs in the 2012 PBRF round. I cleaned and normalised it using OpenRefine then crowdsourced help to search for proceedings from each conference. I classified proceedings as free online; non-free online; available in physical form; or not apparently available.
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