Access to Conference Proceedings: Now or Never?

DING CHOO MING (Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia, dingukm@yahoo.com), MUHAMMAD KAMLIN (Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia)

Abstract


Except for the papers published formally, the availability of most unpublished papers is almost totally dependent on the goodwill of the sponsoring organizations, and at times even on the people attending the conferences. The latter are particularly a good source of supply of papers from conferences hosted by extemporaneous organizers who as a rule do not distribute their papers widely. This may be due to their ignorance of the value of the materials to the wider scholarly community. It may also be that they attach too little importance to the dissemination, control and management of conference proceedings.

ABSTRAK

Kecuali kertas kerja yang sudah diterbitkan secara formal, untuk mendapatkan kebanyakan kertas kerja yang lain yang tidak diterbitkan, kita bergantung hampir seluruh harapan pada perasaan muhibah daripada pihak penganjur seminar. Selalu juga kita memerlukan kerjasama daripada peserta sendiri. Para peserta itu menjadi sumber pembekal yang penting kerana pihak penganjur semasa lazimnya tidak mengedarkan kertas kerja secara meluas. Ini mungkin akibat daripada kejahilan mereka tentang nilai kertas kerja itu kepada komuniti sarjana, atau mungkin mereka tidak sangat mementingkan pengedaran, pengawalan serta pengelolaan prosiding seminar.



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