| What can I access
in the Digital Library? |
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The SPIE Digital Library, one of the most extensive resources available
on optics and photonics, contains more than 70,000 full-text papers
from SPIE Journals and Proceedings published since 1998. It also
includes citations and abstracts for most SPIE papers published
since 1990. Plans are underway to expand the DL back to 1990 by
the end of 2004, an archive of nearly 200,000 papers covering a
wide scope of optical technologies and applications. Approximately
15,000 new papers will be added each year.
Contents of the SPIE Digital Library
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| What Digital
Library features are freely accessible to non-subscribers and which
require a subscription? |
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A Digital Library subscription is not required to use the search
and browse features or to view tables of contents and abstracts.
Downloading full-text digital papers is available only to authorized
subscribers.
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| How do I navigate
the Digital Library? |
| A systematic and clear-cut navigational system has been
implemented for all journals and proceedings in the Digital Library
for ease of use. |
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| How do I search
the Digital Library? |
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Quick and Advanced Search options enable customers to search for
digital papers only or all bibliographic records currently in the
SPIE database. Bibliographic records for papers published earlier
than 1990 may be incomplete at this time. Advanced Search allows
customers a greater degree of selectivity and search options.
Search results may be refined or sorted by various criteria. A
link on the Search Results page to view SPIE books and educational
materials related to a search is also provided.
All records contain author links that display other papers by that
author.
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| How do I browse
the Digital Library? |
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The design architecture of the SPIE Digital Library places an emphasis
on browse functionality so that customers have some of the browse
capabilities available with physical books and journals.
Tables of contents for the current issue or previous issues of
SPIE Journals may be accessed from the Journals homepage or from
the homepage of a specific Journal of interest.
Proceedings may be browsed by volume number, by year, by title,
by conference, and by technical area. Each of these provides links
to the complete tables of contents of Proceedings volumes, which
in turn have links to the abstracts and full text, if available
online.
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| What full-text
article formats are available? |
| All full-text papers are provided in PDF format. Journal
papers from 1998- are available in both PDF and HTML formats. |
| How do I download,
save, and print PDF articles? |
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While this procedure is different across browsers and platforms,
and there are many variations owing to different versions of browsers,
the following steps can be used as general guidelines.
- In your browser, select the "PDF" link by placing
the mouse cursor over the link and clicking on the right mouse
button.
- In the pop-up window that appears on your desktop select "Save
link as".
- In the "Save as" dialogue box that appears, retype
the filename as as myfile.pdf, where 'myfile' is any meaningful
name you wish.
- Once saved, you can open the PDF in your viewer.
IMPORTANT: Proper display of full-text PDF papers in the SPIE
Digital Library requires Adobe Reader 7.0 or higher.
If you have an earlier version of Adobe Reader, you may click here
to download the current version: Download
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| How
do I use Scitation's personalization tools with the SPIE DL? |
| Scitation includes a customizable set
of features designed to make the user experience more informative and more intuitive.
You can sign in from the SPIEDL DL and freely access
MyArticles,
MyPublications,
MySubscriptions, and
MyProfile. |
| What types of
linking are available in the Digital Library? |
| Reference linking is available for all SPIE Journal
papers published since 1999. Each Journal abstract page includes the
complete list of references from that paper in HTML, with citation
links as applicable. Only subscribers can access this feature. Links
are also provided to INSPEC and MEDLINE records. Proceedings papers
have assigned DOI numbers and thus may be linked from other sources
in the technical literature. Outbound reference linking from SPIE
Proceedings papers to references cited within the paper is planned
for the future. SPIE is a member of CrossRef. |
| How does Digital
Library e-mail alerting work? |
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A free e-mail alerting service is available for each SPIE Journal
and for SPIE Proceedings by technical area. By subscribing to this
service, you will receive table of contents alerts as new Journal
issues or Proceedings volumes are published - in either plain-text
(ASCII) or HTML format. Contents alerts are delivered directly to
the e-mail address you specify; alerts in HTML format are fully
linked to abstracts and full text.
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| How do I start
and stop e-mail alerts? |
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To start e-mail alerts, go to the "E-Mail
Alerts Activation Page," enter your e-mail address, select
the SPIE journals and proceedings you'd like to receive alerts for
and select the format you prefer to receive alerts in. Then, click
the "Subscribe" button. You'll then receive a message
to reply to in order to confirm that you've opted to receive TOC
alerts. Once you've confirmed your subscription to the alerting
service, you'll receive another message confirming that you've been
subscribed. The next message you receive from the service will be
the TOC of the next issue as soon as it is published online.
To stop e-mail alerts, go to the "E-Mail
Alerts Cancellation Page," enter your e-mail address and
select the list you'd like to unsubscribe to. Then, click the "Unsubscribe"
button. You'll then receive a message to reply to in order to confirm
that you've opted out of receiving TOC alerts. Once you've confirmed
your cancellation, you'll receive another message confirming that
you've been unsubscribed.
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| How do I purchase
digital documents? |
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Nonsubscribers may purchase digital papers directly from the Digital
Library using the "Quick Article Buy" option or by conducting
searches at the SPIE
Bookstore.
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| How do I purchase
hard-copies of documents? |
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Hard copies of papers not yet available in digital format may be
ordered at the SPIE
Bookstore site on SPIE Web.
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| How can I find
other SPIE products of interest to me? |
| The SPIE
Bookstore offers an extensive collection of resources available
on optics and photonics including publications in hardcopy and CD-ROM
format |
| What is SPIN
database and how do I access it? |
| AIP's SPIN (Searchable Physics Information Notices) database includes bibliographic records and abstracts for more than 1.5 million articles from major physical science journals, magazines, and conference proceedings published by the American Institute of Physics, its member societies, and other affiliated organizations. |
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