Fitchett, Deborah2018-08-162017-09-25Fitchett, D. (2017). Open access to conference proceedings: The great hunt for proceedings referenced in the 2012 PBRF round. LIANZA Conference 2017 - Open (Amuri Toi I A Ako Whakaaro), Addington Raceway, Christchurch, New Zealand. Retrieved from https://lianza.recollect.co.nz/nodes/view/4056https://hdl.handle.net/10182/10143Conferences 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.34en© The Authoropen accessconference proceedingsscholarly communicationConference Contribution - unpublishedANZSRC::080706 LibrarianshipANZSRC::130103 Higher Educationhttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Attribution