Access to IEEE Electronic Library
From 2007, the CERN Library now offers readers online access to the complete IEEE Electronic Library (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers). This new licence gives unlimited online access to all IEEE and IET (previously IEE) journals and proceedings as well as all current IEEE standards and selected archived ones. Some of the titles offer volumes back to 1913. This service currently represents more than 1,400,000 full-text articles!
This leading engineering information resource replaces the previous service, a sub-product of the IEEE database called 'IEEE Enterprise', which offered online access to the complete collection of IEEE journals and proceedings, but with limited features. The service had become so popular that the CERN Working Group for Acquisitions recommended that the Library subscribe to the complete IEEE Electronic Library for 2007.
Usage statistics for recent months showed there was a demand for the service from a large community of CERN users and we were aware that many users had been hoping we could upgrade. As Open Access is not as well advanced in engineering fields as in physics, freely available copies of papers are unfortunately not so easy to obtain, so a subscription to the full service is the only option. Submitting copies of your own papers to CDS http://cdsweb.cern.ch/ helps to remedy this situation for others and we remind staff, especially in fields outside physics, that you should do this for copies of all your published articles and conference papers.
Readers can now take full advantage of the new information resource, but are nonetheless reminded that use of these resources is governed by copyright law and institutional licence agreements: systematic downloading, distributing or retaining substantial portions of information is prohibited. Any non-licensed usage such as this is detected by the publishers and may interrupt site access for everyone. Therefore we ask all readers to use the service in a fair way.
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