Research Guides: Naval Architecture & Ocean Engineering: Conference Papers

How to find Conference Papers

Researchers report many new and novel procedures, process, products, and systems at conferences. Major society conferences, like IEEE and ACM (Association of Computing Machinery), are available through their respective digital libraries, but others can be difficult to find.

Didn't find the full text in the database?

First, try treating the name of the conference like a book title or author and searching it as keywords in our catalog. This will tell you if we have any proceedings from that conference in our print collection.

Second, if you can't locate the conference,stop by the reference desk or contact the engineering librarian

Third, the library can try to get you a copy of the specific articles as an interlibrary loan.

Full Text Conference Papers

These collections contain full-text conference papers

Society of Naval Architects and Marine Engineers (SNAME)
This link will take you to the SNAME transactions, which the library has in print. You can also find other SNAME sponsored conference proceedings like American Towing Tank Conference and the Chesapeake Sailing Yacht Symposium

IEEE Xplore
A digital library providing full text access to IEEE journals, transactions, magazines, letters, conference proceedings, standards, and IET (Institution of Engineering and Technology) publications. You can browse and limit your search to conferences.

A digital library providing full text access to the world's highest quality technical literature in electrical engineering, computer science, and electronics. IEEE Xplore contains full text documents from IEEE journals, transactions, magazines, letters, conference proceedings, standards, and IET (Institution of Engineering and Technology) publications. View more information here.
ACM Digital Library
Provides citations, abstracts, conference proceedings articles published in Association for Computing Machinery (ACM).

Provides citations, abstracts, reviews and the full text of articles published in Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) periodicals and conference proceedings. View more information here.
Aerospace Research Central (AIAA)
American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA) is the leading research body for aeronautics. We have full-text online access to most of the past few years of research journals. We have print versions of many of the conferences; you can discover it in ARC, obtain it from our print collection.

AIAA American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics is the leading research body for aeronautics. We have full-text online access to most of the past few years of research journals. The AIAA's Aerospace Research Central search is also an index to Meeting Papers, Standards and other information. We have print versions of many of the conferences (discover it in AIAA, obtain it from our print collection). View more information here.

American Institute of Physics (AIP)
This link will take you to the full text of AIP conference papers from 2000 to present. Copies of papers from some older conferences can also be found in the library's catalog

Indexes of Conference Papers

You will find citations for conference papers in these databases

Engineering Village (Compendex)
The most comprehensive source for citations and abstracts of scientific and technical engineering research available, covering all engineering disciplines. We have online access back to 1969.

A comprehensive bibliographic database of scientific and technical engineering research available, covering all engineering disciplines. It includes millions of bibliographic citations and abstracts from thousands of engineering journals and conference proceedings. View more information here.

No longer need your copy of that proceedings?

If you have attended a conference and no longer need the published proceedings, please consider donating it to the library. Contact the Engineering Librarian for details.

It can be very difficult for the library to locate and purchase copies of conference publications from smaller organizations and events after the meeting. We are especially interested in proceedings from conferences related to naval and ocean engineering.