In the academic world it is publish or perish. So it is important to find so called CfPs (Call for Papers for conferences) or calls for contribution for, e.g., a book or journal. There are several services which list these and I will introduce some in this article.

First of all, there is a fee based service called

http://www.papersinvited.com which claims to have the largest database but they charge for the information (except searching which seems to be free).

These services offer to search a conference or journal / book CfP either by full text search of by drilling down based on categories or key words.

http://www.conferencealerts.com offers a drill down based on country as well.


Besides the call for papers or events the web site http://www.eventseer.net offers information about people, topics and organizations.

This is achieved by the possibility to add your own profile or the profile of you organization. The topic is kind of a tag which allows you to find people or events which have registered them self by using this key word. Besides this you can also subscribe to a RSS feed which lists all new conferences added to the system. Another feature is that all steps in the life cycle of a conference are covered in the system (deadline for submission, notification, start date, etc.)

http://www.confsearch.org offers a search based on General, Keywords, Related Conferences and Authors and has a unique time line / bar view which allows you to see the matching conferences in a gant chart like view.  You can switch to a textual / table view which just shows the dates.

A similar function is offered to the user with http://www.wikicfp.com once the user has registered and added conferences to a personal list.

http://www.allconferences.com offers similar search functionality like the other web sites in addition the hit list also shows past events. Others sometimes show them as well but do not show them with an own headline in the hit list.

All these services can also be used to promote an event. The only problem is the quality of data which depends on the data entered by users. From my experience there is no system which could claim a lead like Google in this field. If you search for a CfP you should better look at all these sites.

Another place to find events in the academic world is the site of a conference management system called EasyChair. This system allows you to run the action after the CfP, i.e., the workflow after receiving the papers. The sending of the paper to the reviewers, the rating and the communication / notification of the authors.

At their site there is a list of all events using their system so you can also go their to find your conference or publishing opportunity: http://easychair.org/users.cgi

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