Making Your Conferences A Part Of The Future: Why Proceedings Matter Mark A. Vasquez Strategic Program Development Sr. Manager, IEEE Meetings & Conferences

Content that supports IEEE’s Core Purpose –To foster technological innovation and excellence for the benefit of humanity The very latest, leading-edge papers from over 800 IEEE conferences each year Research available first, usually months in advance of the leading journals Wide breadth of content in technical areas ranging from computer engineering, biomedical technology and telecommunications, to electric power, aerospace and consumer electronics More than 750,000 papers available via IEEE Xplore offerings Quality – highly cited content used for research, patents, etc. IEEE Conference Proceedings Deliver:

Quality information from an authoritative source Technological innovations often appear first in IEEE publications Breakthrough ideas presented first at IEEE conferences –Thousands of papers on topics covered in MIT’s 2005 Top Ten Emerging Technologies IEEE subscribers save time and money by not “reinventing the wheel” –More efficient R&D helps accelerate time to market –As a result, corporate market places high value on conference content Depth and range of IEEE content is broad -- not just EE IEEE content is highly regarded

IEEE Covers All Areas of Technology More than just electrical engineering & computer science Aerospace Biomedical Engineering Communications Electronics Imaging Nanotechnology Optics Power Systems Remote Sensing Secure Communications Transportation Antennas Circuits Computing Energy Information Technology Nuclear Science Power Electronics Radiology Robotics & Automation Software Wireless Over 1.8 million articles and papers*! (*) All IEEE Xplore content, including conferences, periodicals and standards

Conference Proceedings Acquired (by conference year; all supported in IEEE Xplore) 15% growth 97% growth (*) Titles published by Computer Society for non-IEEE meetings

More than 75 million downloads via IEEE Xplore in 2007 Almost 50% of downloads are from conference papers –Equates to ~3 million downloads of conference papers EACH MONTH Post-conference access complements conference attendance –Total conference attendance in 2007 was ~400k IEEE content is highly used

IEEE Content feeds patent development The importance of sci-tech literature on patents is increasing and outpaces rate of new patents –# of patents up 27% over prior year –# of sci-tech references up 59% over prior year 38% of sci-tech literature citations by the top 25 patenting organizations are to IEEE IEEE is highly cited in: –Computer Hardware patents –Telecommunications patents –Semiconductor patents –Information storage patents –Medical devices patents –Optics patents –Business software patents 25 top-patenting organizations for patents filed with the USPTO in 2006 Source: 1790 Analytics LLC 2007 Sample U.S. patent citing IEEE information 2007 study examined Sci-Tech references in patents for the top 25 patenting organizations and revealed:

Patent References to STM Publishers IEEE cited 4x more than nearest competitor IEEE is 1st! U.S. Patent References to Top 20 Publishers Based on top 25 patenting organizations USPTO patents in Source: 1790 Analytics 2007

Conference content becoming more highly cited In the 5 years studied, conference citations grew from 33% to 41% of all IEEE citations

Citations for IEEE proceedings grew faster than those for journals Some findings of the study: –Annual citations to all IEEE works rose by 69.6%, from 235.4K in 2001 to 399.2K in 2005 –At the same time, citations to IEEE conference proceedings grew by 112.4%, from 76.4K to 162.3K –During this time, citations to journals rose by 49.1%, from 158.9K in 2001 to 236.9K in 2005 Conference papers also critical for journal impact factors –Citations to journal papers within conference papers count towards journal impact factors

In summary… Proceedings help support IEEE’s mission In addition to providing attendees with a record of research submitted to the conference, proceedings establish a legacy for your conference –Citations –Access via IEEE Xplore (and other means) –Patent development –Etc. Proceedings are “the next best thing to being there” –Allow larger technical community to benefit from high- quality, cutting-edge research –Post-conference access dwarves conference attendance Proceedings are a key resource for R&D –Tens of thousands of references to IEEE conference papers by top patent developers

However…these benefits only exist if the content can be found (and found in a timely fashion) Timeliness of conference content is important to broader community –“First to market” is important in R&D Users have many means by which they can locate the content –Ensuring content meets certain data requirements facilitates discoverability via wide range of access points Next presentation by Adam Philippidis will focus on ways in which we can work together to ensure that the content from your conference can be found, thereby making your conference event a part of the future