Dear All,
Just to point out that the DRS 2006 proceedings are back at the same old
link:
http://www.iade.pt/drs2006/wonderground/
Best regards,
Eduardo Corte-Real
On 11-03-2011 17:07, Carl DiSalvo wrote:
> Hello,
>
> First I want to acknowledge the gracious offers for various copies of the
> DRS proceedings. Still, my understanding is that it is not possible for
> others to access these papers. If that is the case, then while recognizing
> and respecting the challenges of conference management, I just want to point
> out that this is extremely problematic for junior scholars. Basically,
> because these papers are inaccessible, they don't really count. At least in
> the US and at my institution, if the publication cannot be accessed by a
> review committee, it can't really be listed as a publication. So, it is hard
> to justify the effort and expense of participating in such conferences when
> you can't point to a publication after the fact and when they are not
> indexed and accessible to other scholars.
>
> Perhaps in the future, such conferences might not require papers, only
> abstracts? Or perhaps there might be a way to partner with another
> organization to hosts the papers after the fact?
>
> If I am missing something here - if the papers are indexed and accessible to
> other scholars - my apologies for this misunderstanding. If not, perhaps as
> a community we can work together to reconsider the requirement of full
> papers for conferences?
>
> Regards,
>
> Carl
>
> On Thu, Mar 10, 2011 at 8:32 PM, Luke Feast<[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
>> I am processing my publications for my faculty 's research collection
>> (aka HERDC here in australia) and would like to include my paper from
>> the DRS2010 conference in Montreal. I have found most of the
>> information I require on the DRS website but I am still missing some
>> information. Can anyone help me to find:
>>
>> The ISSN number for the proceedings?
>> Whether will a final version of the proceeding will be made available
>> as the currently downloadable proceeding are described as
>> "preliminary"?
>>
>> Thanks for your help.
>>
>> best regards
>> Luke
>>
>>
>> Luke Feast
>> PhD Candidate
>> Faculty of Design
>> Swinburne University of Technology
>>
>>
>>
>> On Saturday, 5 March 2011, David Durling<[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>>> Carl,
>>>
>>> As Terry suggested, we're still debating some technical issues about how
>> we archive conferences on the DRS website, and there is a difficulty with
>> the Montreal2010 proceedings in particular.
>>> For anyone who is interested, I do store some proceedings in my public
>> folder under 'conferences' at:
>>> https://public.me.com/intuitive
>>>
>>> You are most welcome to download them, though as Terry points out, the
>> Montreal proceedings are a collection of individual files which are unlinked
>> at the moment.
>>> David
>>>
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>>> David Durling FDRS PhD http://durling.tel
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