The Institution of Engineering and Technology [ The IET]

1. The Institution of Engineering and Technology [ The IET] Richard Simms Customer Relationship Manager

2. Agenda • The IET • IET Publishing • IET Digital Library • IET Digital Library Archive • Inspec • The Inspec Archive

3. About the IET • One of the world's leading professional societies for the engineering and technology community • Over 150,000 members in 127 countries • Offices in the UK, USA, China and India

4. IET Activities • Membership • Careers and Education • Events and Training • Public Affairs • Communities • Publishing

5. IET Publishing • New titles every year in exciting areas of emerging research - 24 academic research journals including: - 22 research journals - 2 letters journals (Electronics Letters and Micro & Nano Letters) • Magazines for IET Members and students • Books, conference proceedings, seminar digests • Regulations and standards • Inspec database

6. Publishing Areas • Communications • Power & Control • Computer Image & Vision • Computer & Security • Electronics • Vehicular Technology

7. New for 2011 New research journals launching in March 2011 • IET Electrical Systems in Transportation • IET Wireless Sensor Systems

8. IET Electrical Systems in Transportation • Electrical power systems in modern transport applications: Generation, Storage, Distribution and Utilisation • Scope extends to all sectors of transportation: aerospace, marine and land-based • Central theme is to focus on the system and sub-system aspects of electrical energy: system architectures and integration, energy management, control and protection

9. IET Wireless Sensor Systems • Wireless sensor networks and distributed systems • Covers the research, engineering, technological developments, innovative deployment of distributed sensor and actuator systems • Topics covered include: • Theoretical developments of: Innovative Architectures for Smart Sensors, Nano Sensors and Actuators Unstructured Networking, Cooperative and Clustering Distributed Sensors, Data Fusion for Distributed Sensors, Distributed Intelligence in Distributed Sensors, Energy Harvesting for and Lifetime of Smart Sensors and Actuators, Cross-Layer Design and Layer Optimisation in Distributed Sensors, Security, Trust and Dependability of Distributed Sensors • Innovative Services and Applications for: Monitoring: Health, Traffic, Weather and Toxins Surveillance: Target Tracking and Localization, Observation: Global Resources and Geological Activities (Earth, Forest, Mines, Underwater), Industrial Applications of Distributed Sensors in Green and Agile Manufacturing, Sensor and RFID Applications of the Internet-of-Things ("IoT"), Smart Metering, Machine-to-Machine Communications

10. IET Digital Librarywww.ietdl.org

11. IET Digital Library - www.ietdl.org • Electronics Letters • Micro & Nano Lettters • IET Research Journals – 22 titles • Engineering & Technology Magazine • IET Conferences and Seminar Digests • Over 100,000 technical articles available from 1994 onwards • Over 70,000 technical articles available from 1872-1993 as part of the IET Digital Library Archive • All available online - www.ietdl.org

12. Benefits • Convenient access to content • Available 24/7 • Multi-user access at the same time • Saves physical library space • All IET publications in one place • Easy to browse, search & find content quickly • Access on demand with pay-per-view

13. Features • Advanced search and linking capabilities • Search by Inspec classification and indexing • Save any search query as a dynamic RSS feed • Content indexed by leading search engines • COUNTER-compliant usage statistics • Advance article publishing – articles available as soon as they are ready!

14. IET Digital Library Archive

15. IET Digital Library Archive • Complete collection of research journals and magazines published by the Institution from 1872-1993 • Over 70,000 peer reviewed articles • Articles from Electronics Letters from 1965-1993 available • Subjects include electrical and electronic engineering, telecommunications, computing, power, control, radar, circuits, materials, and related research in IT

16. IET Digital Library Archive • Your gateway into the history of science and technology as published by the Institution • Archive articles written by leading engineers and scientists including Edison and Marconi • Groundbreaking research from scientists such as Charles K. Kao, the “Father of Fiber Optics”

17. IET Digital Library Archive • All articles have fully searchable PDFs • Linked HTML references and citations (where available) • A range of purchasing and subscription options to suit your needs • Now available onlinewww.ietdl.org/archive

18. Subscriptions • Front file subscriptions - access to 2011 issues and all issues from 1994-2010 • Archive Subscriptions Available - access to content from 1872-1993 • Unlimited searching, display & printing at single local site • Access method - institutional access – IP Address

19. Coming soon! • IET Digital Library platform upgrade to the Scitation C3 platform during 2011 • IET Books to be added to IET Digital Library during 2011

20. Publication frequency increases for 2011 • Micro & Nano Letters - 6 issues to 12 issues • IET Computer Vision - 4 issues to 6 issues • IET Control Theory & Applications - 12 issues to 18 issues • IET Image Processing - 6 issues to 8 issues • IET Microwave, Antennas & Propagation - 12 issues to 15 issues • IET Power Electronics – 6 issues to 9 issues • IET Radar, Sonar & Navigation – 6 issues to 9 issues • IET Signal Processing – 6 issues to 8 issues

21. The Inspec Database

22. Content and coverage: Inspec Content Key resource for global, quality and comprehensive science and engineering information spanning 110 years for: • Physics • Electrical and electronic engineering • Computing and control engineering • Information technology • Production, manufacturing & mechanical engineering 7.07 million 4.73 million 3.47 million 106,454 1.09 million Plus many interdisciplinary subjects such as nanotechnology, oceanography, environmental science.....

23. Inspec Database • 11.59 million records (November 2010) • 720,000 records to be added in 2010 • Optional Archive adds a further 873 k • 1969 to date Or 1898 with the Archive • Over 4500 journals (1600 Cover to Cover), and 3000 other publications • Includes 140 Open Access Journals • Full text linking via DOIs • Up to 60% of current records

24. Journal articles 70 % • Conference proceedings 20 % • Conference papers in Journals 9 % • Others 1% 29 % Journals 70% Conferences 29% Others 1% Document Types • Others include: • Books/Book Chapters • Reports • Patents (1968/9-1976) • Dissertations

25. Diverse Coverage laser printers Long-haul lasers [buyer's guide] computer games A principal cognitive precondition of successful child-computer interactions in the information society traffic control Traffic signal control by Egograms photography Color handling in panoramic photography radar Fully integrated automotive radar sensor with versatile resolution pacemakers Paradoxical undersensing at a high sensitivity in dual chamber pacemakers radiation effects Modeling natural space ionizing radiation effects on external materials environmental science Impact of science and technology on energy and environmental research and development nanotechnology Molecular motors: nature's nanomachines manufacturing Analysis of a decentralized production-inventory system

26. Subject Fields Bibliographic Fields Author Title Author Affiliation Publication Year Abstract Subject Terms Uncontrolled Controlled Document Type Language Added Value Fields! Publication Country Classification Codes Source Treatment Type Conference Details Chemical Indexing Accession Number Numerical Indexing Coden/ISSN Astronomical Indexing Digital Object Identifier Search Fields on Inspec

27. Controlled Terms

28. Results

29. Broad Coverage of subject areas Covered

30. Broad Coverage of subject areas Covered

31. Comprehensive coverage Content selected by specialists Value add indexing Time period Easy to use interface Full text linking Management of searches and records Save search and alerting features Why Use Inspec

32. Review quality research information focused on your specific area of interest Research which companies are working on what technologies Find possible collaborators Uses

33. Citation searching capability IPC codes Video Content Orcid Affiliation Indexing New For 2011

34. Inspec Archive

35. Inspec Archive • Electronic access to the printed Science Abstracts journals • Covers 1898 to 1968 • Complements Inspec database • Combined file give access to scientific and technical literature from 1898 to date • Contains over 873,700 records • Equivalent to 176 print volumes

36. Fully searchable, electronic access to >70 years of international & technical literature easier access to information from 1898-> Elimination of the need to keep aging print volumes 176 print volumes & >140,000 pages Saves on: storage costs your time library shelving space Inspec Archive

37. Multidisciplinary Database Physics and Electrical & Electronic Engineering from 1898 in one Science Abstracts journal Physics from 1902 Electrical & Electronics Engineering from1902 Computing & Control Engineering from 1966 Wide range of cross-disciplinary topics What are Science Abstracts?Coverage

38. Who should use the Inspec Archive? Academics Biographers Patent examiners Social historians Scientific researchers & engineers Inspec Archive

39. Locate references to: fundamental teaching science no longer included in textbooks sleeping beauties unrecognised undeveloped ideas Over 873,700 potential novelty destruction weapons Inspec Archive

40. Tables, graphs, images included

41. History of Science Research Find references to earlier work that can solve problems with technologies today USES

43. Very broad, only 10 categories 1898 Images included, can be enlarged after downloading. Over 3500 images included.

45. Inspec Direct Range of other vendor platforms Inspec and Inspec Availability

46. Thank you! Richard Simms rsimms@theiet.org www.theiet.org