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June 19, 2007

IEEE Explore Scheduled Downtime

IEEE Xplore Digital Library will be unavailable from 3:00pm-4:00pm EDT on 21 June due to scheduled maintenance. We apologize for any inconvenience this may cause.

July 31, 2007

What's new in the SPIE Digital Library?

The SPIE Digital Library proceedings have been reorganized into seven broad technology areas:

  • Astronomy and Astronomical Optics
  • Biomedical Optics and Medical Imaging
  • Communication and Information Technologies
  • Defense and Industrial Sensing
  • Electronic Imaging and Processing
  • Micro- and Nano- Technologies
  • Optics and Electro-Optics

    Each of these areas is further divided into key subtopics. You can browse these seven main technology areas and their subfields and view a chronological listing of volumes within each area, with links to the contents of those volumes. The E-mail Alerts are now mapped to these technology segments.

  • August 9, 2007

    ASTM Standards Online

    American Society for Testing and Materials (ASTM) Standards are now available online.

    ASTM International is an international standards developing organization that develops and publishes voluntary technical standards for a wide range of materials, products, systems, and services. ASTM International develops standards using a consensus process.

    ASTM International was formed in 1898 in the United States as the American Society for Testing and Materials by a group of scientists and engineers, led by Charles Benjamin Dudley, to address the frequent rail breaks plaguing the fast-growing railroad industry. The group developed a standard for the steel used to fabricate rails. It predates other standards organizations such as BSI (1901), DIN (1917) and AFNOR (1926), but differs from these in that it is not a national standards body, that role being taken in the USA by ANSI. However, it has a dominant role among standards developers in the USA, and claims to be the world's largest developer of standards.

    Today, ASTM International supports thousands of technical committees, which draw their members from around the world and collectively maintain more than 12,000 standards. The quality of the standard test methods is such that they are frequently used world-wide, even in places where ASTM specifications are not used.

    December 7, 2007

    IEEE Xplore® Upgrade Provides New Tools for Researchers

    IEEE Xplore® , the digital library of IEEE journals, conference papers and Standards, has added new research options, including tabbed search results, improved author search, citation search, and more.

    Search results now show four tabs. The first tab (default view) will display all IEEE/IET publications. Users can now click on tabs to view other results including Books, Courses, or Application Notes

    1. IEEE/IET - IEEE journals, transactions, letters, magazines, conference proceedings, and standards.

    2. Books – Citations to books published by IEEE Press and IEEE Computer Society Press in partnership with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

    3. Educational Courses - Interactive online content developed from IEEE conference tutorials.

    4. Application Notes [BETA] – produced by GlobalSpec, Application Notes are content created by companies to explain, illustrate, and promote technologies or products.

    The IEEE and the Engineering Library are anxious to hear what you think of these improvements. Send your comments to Helen Josephine, Head Librarian, Engineering Library
    at - helenj@stanford.edu. For more information, click on -

    http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/guide/g_oview_notes.jsp

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