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MikeTaylor on May 21, 2012 | parent | context | favorite | on: Petition Obama adminstration to require free acces...

This varies a lot between fields. In palaeontology, conference "papers" are only 200-word abstracts with no illustrations or references, and are not considered to be science. So papers are everything. I believe it's less straightforward in maths, for example, where conferences are much more important.

ethanwhite on May 21, 2012 | [–]

It is the same in ecology - short abstracts, not considered peer reviewed, never cited.

anamax on May 22, 2012 | [–]

How about faculty/department websites? (In my experience, they're even more up to date than conferences.)

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