Q. Where can I find conference abstracts?

For abstracts from a specific event, you may wish to check if there is a website dedicated to that organization or meeting.

• ASCO Meeting Abstracts
  • The American Society of Clinical Oncology's comprehensive database of abstracts.
• AACR Meeting Abstracts
  • Abstracts from the American Association for Cancer Research annual meetings from 2004 to the present.
• PapersFirst
  • Contains citations to papers presented at worldwide meetings, conferences, expositions, workshops, congresses, and symposia. 

Web of Science

1. Select Conferences from the All Fields drop-down menu
2. Enter the conference name > click the Search button
3. Limit your results by Document Type >  choose Meeting Abstract
4. Limit your results by Publication Year > choose preferred year

Embase

1. Enter the conference name
2. Enter publication years
3. Choose Conference Abstract from the Publication Types menu
4. Click the Search button

Scopus

1. Choose Conferences from the Search within drop-down menu
2. Enter the conference name > click the Search button
3. Limit your results by Year choose preferred year

PubMed does not usually index conference abstracts. 

Please note that some databases include batches of meeting abstracts as a single large full-text file, which can make it difficult to locate the text of an individual abstract.