Browsing by Content Type
Browsing by Content Type

Browsing by Content Type

IEEE Xplore corpus contains five content types: Books, Conferences, Courses, Journals & Magazines, and Standards.

Books

The IEEE Press and the IEEE Computer Society Press jointly develop and publish books with John Wiley & Sons, Inc. in the fields of electrical, computer, and software engineering under the Wiley-IEEE Press and Wiley-IEEE Computer Society Press imprints. IEEE Xplore offers the following third-party publisher books:

The following information is available:

  • Current bibliographic data on all active book titles in all programs.
  • Searchable PDF files of a representative chapter, the preface, and the full table of contents for each book title (when available).
  • Searchable PDF files of book chapters. Institutions can purchase a subscription to all books. IEEE members have access to any book with a copyright date greater than three-years old. Individual book chapters can also be purchased individually with discounted pricing available to IEEE members.

Use the Browse dropdown Browse dropdown to locate and purchase books of interest. Before buying a book, please check with your librarian or information professional. A copy may be available to you at no additional cost.

Conferences

Browse Conference Publications page enables you to browse all of the conference proceedings in IEEE Xplore.

Finding a Conference Publication

  1. In the main navigation bar, choose Conference Publications in the Browse dropdown Browse dropdown. IEEE Xplore displays the By Title tab with a list of titles in alphanumeric order.
  2. Use the By Title tab to search conference titles by keyword or browse by title.
  3. Alternatively, click the By Topic tab to browse by topic.
  4. Refine the list of titles by selecting options and clicking Apply Refinements in the appropriate sections of the Refine results by box. You can refine by Year, Publisher, and Topic when browsing by title.
  5. Control the number of titles listed on the page and the order in which they are presented using the Results per page and Sort by drop-down menus.
  6. Click a conference title to display the conference home page. The page lists all of the proceedings available for that conference.

Finding a Conference on a Conference Home Page

Click the conference proceedings you want to view. The table of contents for the proceedings appears.

You can view the full text if you or your institution subscribes to the publication.

Courses

The Browse Courses page lets you browse online course titles in the IEEE Courses Library, in addition to IEEE-USA professional development courses.

Finding a Course

  1. In the main navigation bar, choose Courses under Browse dropdown. The courses are displayed by Course Programs and Categories on the Courses homepage. You can also choose by Topic (sub-category) in the Categories slideout on the upper right of the page Course categories slideout button.
    Course categories
  2. After choosing a program or category, you will see an action bar displaying the number of courses in the list below it. You can filter this list by Category, course level, and course length.
  3. Choose a course in the list by clicking on the course image or title.
  4. The course page has the course abstract and presenter biography. To access the course, you must have a subscription to the specific course library or you can purchase the course individually.

For more details on subscription packages, go to the Innovate Course Subscription Options page.

Journals & Magazines

IEEE publishes leading journals, transactions, letters, and magazines in electrical engineering, computing, biotechnology, telecommunications, power and energy, and dozens of other technologies.

  1. In the main navigation bar, choose Journals & Magazines under Browse dropdown.
  2. When browsing Journal titles alphabetically, be sure to reference the first unique phrase in the title. For instance, IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control is filed under "A" for "Automatic" and IEEE Circuits and Devices Magazine is filed under "C" for "Circuits".

    Alternatively, you can choose the By Topic. By Topic will allow you to refine by one of 16 Topics.

    Browse Journals & Magazines

  3. Use the filters on the left-hand side to refine your search further.

Standards

The Browse Standards page enables you to browse all of the standards in the IEEE Xplore database.

Locating a Standard

  1. In the main navigation bar, choose Standards in the Browse dropdown Browse dropdown. IEEE Xplore displays the By Collection tab with a full list of IEEE standards. To browse SMPTE standards, toggle to SMPTE under Select Publisher.
  2. Select one of the following tabs:
    • By Collection - Browse by collection or use the search by keywords box to search within the selected collection.
    • By Number - Browse standard number.
    • By Topic - Browse by standard topic.
    • By ICS Code - Browse ICS Codes.
    • Reading Room - Browse standards that have been incorporated by reference in the US Code of Federal Regulations (CFR). IEEE has created the online Reading Room for the benefit of the public to access these standards online in "read only", PDF format at no cost.
    • IEEE GET Program - Browse select IEEE standards at no charge through support from IEEE-SA, industry, and government.

    Browse Standard Range
  3. Refine the list of titles by searching within the issue or selecting options and clicking the Apply Refinements button in the appropriate sections of the Filter These Results box. For example, you may be interested in only active standards titles but not all titles.
  4. Control the number of titles listed on the page and the order in which they are presented using the Results per page and Sort by drop-down menus.

Locating a Version of a Standard

  1. Click Show Version Details Show Version Details to list active, draft, withdrawn, and archived versions of the standard.
  2. Click a version title. IEEE Xplore displays the standard version home page.
  3. Click the title to view its abstract.

You can view the full text if you or your institution subscribes to the standard.

Browsing Standards Dictionary

The Standards Dictionary takes the content from 100-2000 The Authoritative Dictionary of IEEE Standards Terms and presents it in a convenient, browsable, and contextual interface. There are nearly 40,000 definitions in the library with more being added every quarter.

Standards Terms Search Results Module

This module is located on the search results page and displays the top 25 standards terms relevant to your keyword search. Click any of the terms to display all definitions for that term on the Standards Dictionary Browse page. Note: You must be logged in to view Standards Dictionary Terms.

To browse for other standards terms, click the "Browse" link at the bottom of the module.

Standards Dictionary Module

Standards Terms in Abstracts

When viewing a standard abstract, you'll see a section titled Standards Terms. All the terms on the page are specific to the standard you are viewing. Clicking on a term takes you to the Standards Dictionary browse page and displays all the definitions for that term.

Standards Dictionary Listing