Welcome to the IEEE
IEEE Digital Library update
Rachel Berrington, MLS
Manager, IEEE Client Services
January 2008
Today’s Topics
IEEE publishing
IEEE Xplore recent and future
enhancements
scitopia.org
Live demonstration of IEEE Xplore
IEEE is a “Green” Open Access Publisher
SHERPA, the open access partnership,
has defined RoMEO colours to
highlight publisher's archiving policies.
These colours differentiate between
four categories of archiving rights:
IEEE Publications
IEEE Journals & Magazines
- The top-cited journals and magazines in
the fields of electrical engineering and computing – now 139 in all!
6 new
in 2008
IEEE Conference Proceedings - The cutting edge papers presented at
Now
800 Annual
Titles!
IEEE conferences held annually throughout the world. Doubled the number of
titles in last 5 years.
IEEE Standards - Standards collection is more complete then ever. IEEE
Xplore now includes all active, archived, withdrawn and draft stds
Now offer online education courses (IEEE Expert Now) - The
best IEEE educational courses and tutorials from conferences around the world
delivered in a series of engaging and highly interactive, one-hour online learning
courses
Enhanced in
IEEE
Xplore
New from
IEEE!
IEEE Xplore Usage Continues to Climb
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2002 = 1.9M
2003 = 3.7M
2004 = 4.4M
2005 = 4.8M
2006 = 5.6M
2007 = 5.7M
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A 200% increase since 2002!
IEEE Meets the Needs of Today’s
Engineers
Information you can trust
– Peer reviewed
– IEEE is the most highly cited in the field
– IEEE is cited in patents more than anyone else
Saves time = greater productivity
– Convenient desktop access 24/7
– Don’t waste time sifting through unproven clutter on the Net
– IEEE users save time and money by not “reinventing the wheel”
Search any way you want
– Advanced options, search Google or try Scitopia!
Access options for any size organization
– One of the best values in your digital collection
What do you get with the IEL (IEEE/IET
Electronic Library)?
1.7 million full-text articles
139 IEEE journals & magazines
20 IET journals & magazines
800 annual IEEE conferences
20+ IET annual conferences
1,600+ IEEE standards
Inspec index records for all articles
Backfile to 1913 for select titles
Monthly COUNTER-compliant usage statistics
IEEE Adds 14 New Journals in 4 Years
2003 – 3 New Titles
IEEE Power Electronics Letters
IEEE Security and Privacy Magazine
IEEE Power and Energy Magazine
2004 – 5 New Titles
IEEE Transactions on Automation Science and Engineering
IEEE/ACM Transactions on Computational Biology & Bioinformatics
IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing
IEEE Distributed Systems Online
IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters
2005 – 2 New Titles
IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics
IEEE/OSA Journal of Display Technology
2006 – 4 New Titles
IEEE Computational Intelligence Magazine
IEEE Vehicular Technology Magazine
IEEE Computer Architecture Letters
IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security
New Journals Published in 2007
IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Circuits and Systems
IEEE Systems Journal
IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Signal Processing
IEEE Nanotechnology Magazine
IEEE Industrial Electronics Magazine
IEEE Transactions on Network and Service
Management
IET Synthetic Biology
IET Renewable Power Generation
Upcoming IEEE Journals for 2008
IEEE Intelligent Transportation Systems Magazine
IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth
Observations and Remote Sensing
IEEE Transactions on Haptics
IEEE Reviews in Biomedical Engineering
IEEE Transaction on Services Computing
IEEE Transactions on Learning Technologies
IET Power Electronics
Historical Content Enriches
IEEE digitizes journals back to volume 1, issue 1
– Added over 235,000 legacy documents to IEEE Xplore
since 2003
– 90,000+ legacy PDF articles loaded in 2007
 Proceedings of the IEEE back to 1913
 Historical content from over 60 IEEE titles from
twenty participating societies
– Efforts to complete the digital backfile continue
IET Legacy
– Electronics Letters volumes 1-23 (1965-1987)
Conference Proceedings Enhance
Content Set
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Annual conference content
tops 800 in 2007
172% growth 1996 – 2007
74% growth 2003 - 2007
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Number of annual conferences included in IEEE Xplore
Development Continues in 2007
2007
Release
February
March
August
November
2.2
2.3
2.4
2.4.2
• Courses for
IEEE Members
• Report most
popular articles
for periodicals
• Improved
e-commerce for
single article
sales
• New IEEE
Xplore toolbar
• Open URL
• Techn Surveys
• Application
Notes
• Courses for
Institutions
• Citation Search
• BibTeX/Refwork
Standards
• Improved
Interface
• Availability of
Key
alerts
Features • Inclusion of
draft standards
Link to Your Library’s Collection
with Open URL Support
[email protected]
IEEE provides COUNTER-compliant usage
statistics for customers
COUNTER Journal reports 1-4
Article requests by type
Conference report
Standards report
Usage by IP
Monthly reports
Downloadable *.csv format
IEEE Partners with Portico for Digital
Preservation and Archive
Partnering with Portico
– www.portico.org
Digital Archive: Portico will maintain IEEE’s
intellectual property and enable access
should IEEE cease operation
To keep current with IEEE…
Sign up for “What’s New at IEEE newsletters”
www.ieee.org/whatsnew
– “What’s New for Libraries”- good source of news for
IEEE Xplore customers
Bookmark IEEE’s Client Service Site
http://www.ieee.org/go/clientservices
– Online IEEE Xplore training
– Promotional materials to download
– Link to customer usage statistics site
Working in Partnership With You
Library Advisory Council
– Since 1999, LAC members from around the world
advise on ideas and direction
IEEE Xplore user groups
– Boston (March), Chicago (May), London (Nov) *1st
international user group
Annual customer satisfaction survey
– Conducted by Gallup, Inc. research organization
– Measuring customer engagement and how IEEE
measures up to customer expectation
Start by going to IEEE Xplore
www.ieee.org/ieeexplore
The IEEE Xplore digital library provides full-text access to the world’s
highest quality technical literature in electrical engineering, computer
science, and electronics
Includes: IEEE transactions,
journals, magazines,
conference proceedings, and
standards; and IEE journals,
magazines, and conference
proceedings
• Content undergoes rigorous
peer-review processes to
ensure the high quality of
technical materials
But.. Before we start our demonstration….
Integrating Trusted Science + Technology Research
What is scitopia.org?
• Free federated “vertical” search portal to
digital libraries of 18 leading worldwide
science and technology societies
• Open to the general public, but designed
for researchers
• Full text available via publisher’s digital
products
• Focused on the fields of technology,
including engineering, physics,
• 18 leaders in science and
technology research
• 3.5 million documents
• 350 years
One gateway to it all
New Partners:
Royal Society
Royal Society of
Chemistry
Audio Engineering
Society
Targeted, Authoritative Content
• More than 3.5 million peer-reviewed
articles
and conference proceedings
The content most often cited in patents and
scholarly works
• 50 million worldwide patents
– USPTO
– Japan Patent Office
– European Patent Office
scitopia.org functions
• Searchable fields that include title,
author, abstract, affiliation, date range
and full record
• Search results = article title, authors and
source information.
• Once content is selected, user is
directed to the publisher’s site for full
text
• Mark articles and email in html with “my
articles” function
scitopia.org today…
• Beta launched, June 2007
• Out of beta Oct. 2007
– Improved author search
– Improved results display
– Revised FAQ
• Help us improve
– Put it to work!
– We want your feedback
…be a part of making the site as powerful as it can be
Tomorrow…
• New partners Q1 2008
• Continuing development
• Consistent growth of content
– Societies added as service develops
• Evolving functionality
– Clustering
– Aggregated RSS
– Downloading citations with bibliographic
software
Integrating Trusted Science + Technology Research
Questions?