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Expanded access to IEEE-IEE journals and conference proceedings
For the past several years, Northwestern University Library has offered online access to IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers) journals from 1998 to the present. The Library has now expanded this access through a subscription to the full IEEE/IEE Electronic Library (IEL), located at http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/Xplore/DynWel.jsp. This access is campus-wide, for both the Evanston and Chicago campuses.
IEL includes full-text access to IEEE transactions, journals, magazines, and conference proceedings published since 1988, plus select content back to 1950. The database also contains all current IEEE standards. In addition, IEL includes journals and conference proceedings published since 1988 by the corresponding British society, the IEE (Institution of Electrical Engineers). Northwestern is now among 23 top-ranked U.S. engineering schools that have IEL subscriptions.
These journals and conference proceedings are among the most important in the world in a number of subject areas, including electrical engineering, electronics, telecommunications, and computer science. For example, the IEEE publishes 18 of the top 20 journals in electrical and electronics engineering, as well as 9 of the top 10 journals in telecommunications. The organization also publishes the second-ranked journal in manufacturing engineering, the second-ranked journal in software engineering, the third-ranked journal in biomedical engineering, and important journals and conference proceedings in areas such as materials science, medical imaging, transportation, and other fields.
--Bob Michaelson