Library Guides: Staying Current: keeping up-to-date: Conferences

Attending conferences

Attending conferences helps with staying current and provides networking opportunites with peers and colleagues in your research field. Have you considered submitting an abstract for a conference you'd like to attend? Many conference papers lead to publications in conference proceedings.

This page provides links to some conference listings. Many of the listings provide an alerting service.

Conference websites

WikiCFP

A wiki for Calls For Papers in science and technology - lists around 15,00 CFPs

University of Pennsylvania Arts CFP

Calls For Papers website compiled by University of Pennsylvania (Dept of English)

Conference Alerts: Academic Conferences Worldwide

Browse Conferences by Topic or subscribe to this free service to keep informed about upcoming conferences

Higher Education Conferences

Conferences in higher education and related fields

IEEE Conferences & Meetings

Innovation and technology

H-Net: Humanities and Social Sciences Online

News lists, including conferences

Find academic announcements and calls for papers

Physics World- events

Institute of Physics

Conference directories

There are vetted tools to help researchers identify recognised conferences in their respective fields. Further there are conference portals and -directories (created by commercial companies with interests in promoting the conferences).

Staying Current: keeping up-to-date