Re: proceedings and journals


benlizross wrote:
Peter T. Daniels wrote:

André G. Isaak wrote:
In article <1153653842.338628.89780@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
krause55-Jork@xxxxxx wrote:

These two words keep me wondering for the differences in between,
anyone could shed a light on them for me ?

A proceedings typically represents a collection of papers which were
originally presented a conference.

A journal is a place where articles are published on a specific field.

Typically, the review process for conferences is less involved than the
one for journals. In many cases, conference talks are accepted based
only on an abstract whereas journal articles typically go through a
peer-review process prior to acceptance for publication.

I did not see krause's original posting, but I'm afraid I have to
contradict Andre's response.

A proceedings does represent a collection of papers presented at a
conference.

A journal, however, is simply a serial publication -- it typically
appears four times a year, but sometimes more often, sometimes less.

Journals can be very broad in coverage (like *Science* and *Nature*) or
very narrow, they can have rigorous (like *Language*) or no peer-review
process; the only defining characteristic is that it is received by
subscription.

However, many journals (by this definition) are titled "Proceedings
of..." Just to take a couple of examples from the library catalogue
here: Proceedings of the American Mathematical Society, Proceedings of
the International Astronomical Union, Proceedings of the Prehistoric
Society... etc. These are serial publications received by subscription.
I suppose the original idea was that they presented all that was done at
the society's meetings during a given period. My guess would be that
nowadays they function just like any other journal, but I don't know.
None of them are among journals I regularly look at.

Obviously, a regular Proceedings _is_ a journal!

We don't have them in linguistics, though. Proceedings of regular
meetings tend to become volumes in a series, or independent books. Of
course occasionally linguistics is published in the Proc. Nat. Acad.
Sci., but they tend to be on the level of papers in its journal Science.

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