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The purpose of this study was to explore the relative importance of various attributes (i.e. the total cost of attending, conference organizer, publishing opportunities for an academic career and personal development, reputation as measured by the number of conferences held, location and size) in terms of their ability to impact the decision of attendees in their selection of which academic conference to attend.

Conjoint analysis was used to examine the relative importance of various attributes to impact an attendee’s decision to select an academic conference (i.e. the total cost of attending, conference organizer, publishing opportunities for an academic career and personal development, reputation as measured by the number of conferences held, location and size).

The choice-based conjoint analysis revealed that the most crucial attributes for attending an academic conference were the total cost of attending the conference (28% of relative importance) and the conference organizer (28%).

Since the total cost of attending a conference is one of the top two attributes, conference organizers should reduce the costs as much as possible. Recommendations include choosing a university venue instead of a hotel or conference center and offering multiple options for registration passes (i.e. one-day pass). However, organizers should be careful about meals provided during the conference program, as meals have a positive effect on attendees’ decisions.

This study introduces to the literature a new indicator for selecting an academic conference – the reputation of the conference as measured by the number of times it had been held. In previous studies, this variable was not considered in the context of selecting an academic conference.

This study aims to determine offline academic conference participation decision-making factors in the post-pandemic situation incorporating the safety measure as one of the factors.

This study provides a new model for examining the factors influencing academic conference participation using a quantitative approach. The responses of 110 academicians were collected and statistically evaluated using partial least square structural equation modelling (PLS-SEM).

The results show that safety measures implemented by the conference organiser lead to trust and result in the decision to participate in the offline conference. Besides, conference factors also play a crucial role in determining the participation of academic conferences.

The information was gathered from 110 replies, and to gain a more comprehensive understanding of the factors that influence academic conference participation, a bigger sample size would be required.

The study's findings shed light on the components that affect academicians' decision to attend an offline conference which is critical for conference organisers, hotels and the meetings, incentives, conferences and exhibitions (MICE) business.

To the best of the authors' knowledge, this is the first study that seeks to predict factors influencing academicians to participate in an offline academic conference in a post-pandemic setting by incorporating variables such as safety measures and trust.

Librarians whose patrons need access to scientific and technical conference proceedings will find the Index to Scientific and Technical Proceedings a multi‐faceted library reference tool designed with their needs in mind. ISTP provides comprehensive current worldwide coverage of scientific and technical conference proceedings, packaged for ease of use for a variety of library purposes, ranging from reference use to use in acquisitions and interlibrary loans. The table of contents format of the main Contents of Proceedings Section of the monthly issues of ISTP, like the table of contents format of the Institute for Scientific Information's Current Contents publications, makes current awareness browsing for research and for acquisitions of new conference proceedings possible for both scientists and librarians. The six index access points to this main section facilitate quick convenient narrowing of scan when time is a factor. The semiannual cumulations provide similar capability for retrospective searches. To date, librarians have found both library staff and scientists using ISTP require a minimum of training in its use.

To report on the 2007 Code4Lib conference held February 27‐March 2nd in Athens Georgia.

Provides a review of the conference and some background on the Code4Lib community.

The Code4Lib conference is developed by the open Code4Lib community. The single track program included a pre‐conference, keynote sessions, scheduled presentations, lighting talks, and breakout sessions.

A conference report reviewing some of the trends in development, within libraries which should appeal to programmers and management alike.

The College of St. Germain is a private, liberal arts college in the U.S. Midwest. Several faculty members developed and launched an academic business and economics conference. Despite of a lack of funding from the college, and a general apathy among other colleagues, the conference became financially self-sufficient and grew each year, with increasing attendance and submissions from many international scholars. Part A of the case focuses on the beginning, planning, and growth stages of the conference, and culminates with the successful conclusion of the third annual conference and planning for the fourth conference. Part B focuses on the fourth and fifth conferences, and concludes with the surprising cancellation of the sixth annual conference. The case highlights the challenges and accomplishments of the conference chairpersons and the organizing committee, as well as management, marketing, and leadership factors that contributed to the ultimate demise of the conference.

To provide an overview of the 2004 International Conference on Dublin Core and Metadata Applications held in Shanghai, China, in October 2004.

Outlines the themes of the papers presented in the three plenary paper sessions: Metadata Frameworks, Metadata Users, and Managing & Harvesting Metadata.

Found that one of the most prevailing topics at the conference was interoperability, being the key to ensure the accessibility and sustainability of any effective digital library.

Provides a useful summary of a conference of interest to library and information management professionals.

Conferences, symposiums, and other meetings offer the promise of current information in changing fields, but it is sometimes difficult to learn when and where they will take place, and what their participants discuss. Two types of reference sources that facilitate access to such information are calendar indexes of forthcoming meetings, and indexes to the published proceedings of meetings. This paper focuses on three calendar indexes to scientific and technological meetings—Scientific Meetings, MInd: The Meetings Index, and World Meetings. These compilations of meeting calendars offer researchers and librarians important guides for planning and for keeping up to date in specific subject areas. (Wolman [1983] suggests that users of chemical information consult World Meetings to keep abreast of meetings in that field.) Meeting calendar indexes also serve as important retrospective reference aids in verifying, for example, the occurrence of past meetings, or in confirming whether proceedings were, to be published. Guides to scientific, medical, and technologic information, and guides to reference sources, list the index features briefly (for example, Roper and Boorkman 1980, 89–92); however, no previous evaluative comparisons of the three indexes were found in the literature.

Considerable attention has been devoted in the tourism literature to the construction and estimation of models explaining the demand for tourism (for a comprehensive review of such models see Witt and Martin 1989). Such studies have, in general, focused upon holiday tourism or total tourism, with scant attention being paid to explaining the demand for congress tourism.