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 Library www.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 as part of the IET Digital Library Archive
All available online -

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
Over 70,000 peer reviewed articles
Articles from Electronics Letters from 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 online

18. Subscriptions Front file subscriptions
- access to 2011 issues and all issues from
Archive Subscriptions Available
- access to content from
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
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) 1969 to date
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. Document Types Journal articles 70 % Conference proceedings 20 %
Conference papers in Journals 9 %
Others 1%
29 %
Journals 70%
Conferences 29%
Others 1%
Others include:
Books/Book Chapters
Reports
Patents (1968/9-1976)
Dissertations

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

27. Controlled Terms

28. Results

29. Broad Coverage of subject areas Covered

30. Broad Coverage of subject areas Covered

31. Why Use Inspec 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

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

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

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. Inspec Archive
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

37. What are Science Abstracts? Coverage
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

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

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

40. Tables, graphs,
images included

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

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

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

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