Реферат: DESCRIPTION AND DEFINITIONS
In academia, proceedings are the collection of academic papers that are published in the context of an academic conference. They are usually distributed as printed books (or sometimes CDs) either before the conference opens or after the conference has closed. Proceedings contain the contributions made by researchers at the conference. They are the written record of the work that is presented to fellow researchers. The collection of papers is organized by one or more persons, who form the editorial team. The quality of the papers is typically ensured by having external people read the papers before they are accepted in the proceedings. This process is called reviewing. Depending on the level of the conference, this process including making revisions can take up to a year. The editors decide about the composition of the proceedings, the order of the papers, and produce the preface and possibly other pieces of text. Although most changes in papers occur on basis of consensus between editors and authors, editors can also single-handedly make changes in papers.
Proceedings are published in-house, by the organizing institution of the conference, or via an academic publisher. For example, the Lecture Notes in Computer Science by Springer Verlag take much of their input from proceedings. Increasingly, proceedings are published in electronic format on CD only, or distributed on Internet.
A number of academic journals also use this name in their title, for example, Proceedings of SPIE*, although the scientific quality of publications in proceedings usually is not so high as that of international scientific journals.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proceedings
*SPIE abbrev the Society of Photo-Optical Instrumentation Engineers
TASK 1.Read the text defining and describing conference proceedings and answer the following questions:
1. What procedure is established to ensure the quality of papers before they are accepted in the proceedings?
2. What institutions are proceedings published by?