title: The conference proceedings: a white elephant.
abstract: The number of immunological publications continues to increase year by year at, for many, an alarming rate. In this article, Robert Schwartz suggests that one class of publication, the conference proceedings, has outlived its usefulness.
authors.affiliation: Dept of Medicine, New England Medical Center, Boston, MA 02111.
authors.forename: R S
authors.initials: RS
authors.lastname: Schwartz
mesh_terms: D001877:Books; D003226:Congresses as Topic; D007993:Libraries, Medical / Q000191:economics; D010506:Periodicals as Topic; D011643:Publishing / Q000639:trends*