put abstracts on cv?

[cooperstreet]

Hi all,

 

I have a number of papers that I have worked on. One is finished (published) and the others have or will be presented at conferences. Rather than spend time detailing the contents of these papers, would it be advisable to put the abstract on a CV? Thanks.

[rising_star]

No. Abstracts do not belong on a CV. What you could do is a create a professional web presence for yourself, post the abstracts there, and include the URL with your application materials.

[TakeruK]

Just be careful to read application instructions carefully -- some of mine said explicitly NOT to include any web URLs in the CV (or sometimes in anything you submit). But there are others that wanted them too!
 

Also, when you say "abstract", do you mean the full text of the abstract, or a bibliographic reference to an abstract that you submitted to a conference. You definitely do not want to put full text abstracts in your CV.

 

But I had a section of my CV for publications and conference presentations and I put a bibliographic reference to that proceedings (so if they searched it, they would find my abstract) and if allowed, a URL to that abstract online (in my field, it would be something like: http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2009AGUFM.P33D..03E [this is not my work]).