Conference proceedings

What does the statement about conference proceedings mean?

ZORA states: "Full articles only; no abstracts, no posters, no PowerPoint presentations. If a conference contribution is published in a book or a scientific journal, it is submitted to ZORA as a book chapter or journal article - at the time of publication as a book chapter or journal article. Contributions in proceedings are submitted as "Conference Contribution, Proceedings".

If the conference contribution is published as a book chapter or journal article, it can be submitted as such in ZORA, i.e. as publication type book section or article in scientific journal at the time of publication in this form. Contributions to proceedings and contributions published only on the conference platform can be submitted as conference contribution, proceedings. The information of the submitters will not be changed by the ZORA editorial office, because in the different disciplines the publication types (conference or book) are weighted differently.

Which conference proceedings are unsuitable for ZORA?

For conference proceedings, ZORA accepts bibliographic data and full texts only if the items are published as full articles. Abstracts, oral presentations, or posters without full articles are therefore generally not accepted in ZORA, as mentioned in the Guide to ZORA.
Talks and poster presentations can be listed in the Academic Report in Chapter 3 "Research and Teaching".

• Example 1: Conference papers at biomedical meetings are very often published only as abstracts (summaries). These abstracts are often published in a scientific journal as a supplement, have only one page number, are short, and published together with other abstracts in the supplement. They are not suitable for ZORA.
• Example 2: Conference papers at computer science meetings are very often published as articles and are then suitable for ZORA.
• Example 3: A conference paper is labeled as "Speech" or "Lecture" in ZORA and is entered without full text. Searching the Internet does not reveal a published article, or only that a lecture was given. This is rejected by the ZORA editorial office. The e-mail message with the rejection text allows the submitter to attach the published article in ZORA, if one exists, and to re-submit the conference item in ZORA (deposit).
• Example 4: A conference paper is labeled "Speech" or "Lecture" in ZORA and entered with the published full text, which is the length of an article. The ZORA editorial office accepts the Conference Item even though it is not published elsewhere.