News Update from the Publisher Liaison Committee
From: John Dupuis
What's New with the IEEE
Some recent enhancements to the Xplore interface include: integration of Standards Online product, educational courses for member purchase and development of a mirror site in Arizona. IEEE has also contracted with Portico for archival preservation of their content as well as taking a lead in the developing and launching Scitopia.
The IEEE convened its Library Advisory Council in New York City from October 24-26, 2007. Some new developments in store for the Xplore interface include: OpenURL compliance, RefWorks/BibTex downloading, search enhancements such as known citation search and tabbed search results, OPAC list updates. They will also be integrating some third party content such as white papers and application notes as a pilot project for certain users. Further down the road, Xplore 3.0 will include further personalization options, image searching, faceted and clustered search results. As well, they will be implementing an author network to resolve all the various author names in the database. Social software functionality such as communities, tagging and mashups are also in development.
It's also worthwhile to check out the IEEE's training materials pages where quite a bit of new content has been added recently.
The Digital Library Training page
(http://www.ieee.org/web/publications/subscriptions/clientservices/training.html) has a few Flash videos on topics such as Setting Up Email Alerts and Using Session History to Create Complex Searches as well as information on webinar
sessions. The Print Materials and User Guides
(http://www.ieee.org/web/publications/subscriptions/clientservices/promote/tools_print.html) page has a wealth of posters, flyers and handouts for printing. Some of it is
also available in MS Word format, making it customizable.
You can also download an IEEE Xplore toolbar:
http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/guide/toolbar/g_tools_toolbar.jsp
Some journals recently announced or launched (Including IET, formerly IEE):
For 2008:
IET Power Electronics Journal
IEEE Transactions on Haptics
IEEE Transactions on Learning Technologies
IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing
IEEE Reviews in Biomedical Engineering
IEEE Transactions on Services Computing
IEEE Intelligent Transportation Systems Magazine
Newly Available:
IET Renewable Power Generation
Synthetic Biology (IET)
IEEE Systems Journal
IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Circuits and Systems
IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Signal Processing
IEEE Industrial Electronics Magazine
IEEE Transactions on Network and Service Management
IEEE Nanotechnology
For anyone interested in keeping up with IEEE developments, they have a newsletter geared towards librarians at
http://newsletters.ieee.org/ieeelibr/issues/
