Hi:
I just sent a reply to Judy but since many might be interested.  A lot of
life sciences and quite a number of medical conferences and meetings are
found in BA RRM (Biological Abstracts, Reports, Reviews and
Meetings).It is also available online for searching in online db such as Dialog file 5.

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On Thu, 5 Feb 1998, debbie rudnick wrote:

> please post answers to list on this one, I am very interested.
>
> thank you.
>
> At 09:15 AM 2/5/98 -0500, you wrote:
> >Greetings,
> >This gist of this message has also been sent to
> >CANMEDLIB, so please forgive the cross-posting, but we
> >have not received any responses so far.
> >
> >Does anyone know of a publication that indexes medical/life
> >sciences meetings abstracts? These abstracts include
> >papers that may or may not go on to publication in a journal.
> >In the past, driven by desperation, I have gone so far as to
> >contact the sponsoring organization(s)  for help, but often
> >they don't keep abstracts of papers presented at their
> >conferences.
> >Any ideas? Thanks in advance
> >
> >Judy Levine, Librarian
> >Ottawa General Hospital Library
> >501 Smyth Road, Ottawa ON   Canada   K1H 8L6
> >(613) 737-8530   Fax (613) 737-8521
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> >
> debbie rudnick
> CFMC administrative support
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