Save the Date: IEEE Breakfast and Presentation at SLA
Information professionals and their colleagues are invited to attend the IEEE breakfast at the 2008 SLA Annual Conference this June. Discover why researchers around the world rely on IEEE scientific literature to innovate and why leading organizations access IEEE articles and papers to support R&D, develop new patents and expeditite time-to-market. At the breakfast, IEEE will present tips to demonstrate the value of IEEE information to your organization, highlights from a recent new patent development study of the large impact of IEEE research and upcoming enhancements to the IEEE Xplore digital library. Both IEEE customers and those interested in obtaining access to IEEE online publications are welcome. The breakfast will be held Tuesday, 17 June at the Washington State Convenetion Center at 9:00 am, and registration is requried. Please RSVP to Phyllis Buchta at p.buchta@ieee.org.
Join IEEE at the Silicon Valley Area IEEE User Group Meeting
The second Silicon Valley area IEEE User Group meeting is scheduled to take place at NXP Semiconductors on Wednesday, 15 May 2008 from 9:30 am – 4:30 pm. All IEEE customers are encouraged to attend. If you have a library or IEEE Xplore® Administrator in the Silicon Valley area, please pass this along to your colleagues. This meeting will give us the opportunity to share with you where IEEE will be going in the future. More importantly, your participation and feedback will help us direct future efforts to meet your needs. Continental breakfast, refreshments and lunch will be served.
Please RSVP by 30 March to George Plosker at g.plosker@ieee.org and include the following:
Name(s)
Affiliation (corporation or name of university)
Professional Title(s)
E-mail Address
Phone Number
For more information, contact George Plosker at g.plosker@ieee.org or +1 650 631-9251.
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First Corporate-Sponsored IEEE University Consortium Established in Uruguay
In a shining example of what can happen when industry meets academics, four Uruguay universities have come together to form IEEE’s first corporate-sponsored university consortium. The consortium, funded by Uruguay’s telecommunications giant ANTEL, includes four schools, both private and public. ANTEL, which has its own corporate subscription to IEEE, provided funding for the venture with hopes of furthering engineering education and technological growth within the Latin American country and surrounding regions. First conceived in 2006, the Uruguay Consortium represents an important partnership between IEEE, private industry and the academic community in Uruguay. By bringing together leading universities and one of the country’s largest companies, the IEEE Uruguay Consortium is a significant step towards providing more exciting and positive opportunities for the nation’s emerging generations within both academia and industry.
Enrique E. Alvarez, IEEE 2008-2009 Region 9 Director expressed his excitement about the consortium, saying “IEEE's core purpose is to foster technological innovation and excellence for the benefit of humanity” and the new endeavor is a “clear example of IEEE's mission.” The consortium has been made possible by a number of individuals, including Maria Simon, President of ANTEL and Past President of the Uruguay IEEE Communications Chapter; Osvaldo Novoa, Sub Gerente General Comercial at ANTEL; Celia Desmond, IEEE Director and Secretary; and Gustavo Giannattasio, past IEEE Uruguay Chair and candidate for Elected Regional Director, IEEE Region 9. A faculty member in engineering at the Universidad de la República expressed excitement about the IEEE electronic library, saying “I am so grateful to ANTEL for making the IEEE subscription available to us. I can assure them that we are going to use this excellent tool a lot for our work.” The IEEE Uruguay Consortium will provide the universities full access to more than 1.6 million full-text searchable conference and journal articles, including articles from the top-cited journals in a variety of technology fields.
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IEEE to Collaborate with International Consortium Developing Open Access Publishing Model
IEEE has announced that it will participate in the SCOAP3 (Sponsoring Consortium for Open Access Publishing in Particle Physics) initiative, a global effort to develop an open access publishing model that will make peer-reviewed research articles in the high energy physics field available to online users at no cost. As part of the collaboration, IEEE has agreed that relevant articles from IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science may be used to develop the new publishing model proposed by SCOAP3. A letter signed by IEEE expressed interest in the initiative, provided it will result in sustainable funding and business arrangements to support open access publishing. Read more
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2008 Drexel Scholarly Communication Symposium
The Drexel University Libraries, with support from IEEE, will present the 5th Annual Scholarly Communication Symposium on 16 April 2008. The symposium, titled Scholar2Scholar: How Web 2.0 is Changing Scholarly Communication, features a presentation by Jean-Claude Bradley, Associate Professor, Chemistry and E-Learning Coordinator for the College of Arts and Sciences at Drexel University, followed by panel and roundtable discussions. An optional Dutch-treat networking lunch concludes the day.
Date: Wednesday, 16 April 2008
Time: 8:30 am – 1:30 pm
Location: Drexel University, Edmund D. Bossone Research Enterprise Center, Market Street (between 31st and 32nd Streets), Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
All are welcome! The event is free, but registration is required. For more information and to register, please visit the Scholarly Communication Symposium web site.
Also visit the Symposium wiki for the latest updates and information.
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Join IEEE for a Free Webinar on Photonic Integrated Circuits
Make sure your faculty, researchers and engineers know about the free IEEE webinar, taught by IEEE Fellow Christopher R. Doerr, highlighting the latest advancements in photonic integrated circuits. InP Photonic Integrated Circuits for Fiber-Optic Communications, scheduled for Wednesday, 9 April 2008 at 2:00 pm EDT, will provide an overview of the technology behind InP PICs, focusing on devices for fiber-optic communications that monolithically integrate two or more functions. Ideal for telecommunications design engineers, research and development engineers and engineering managers, this webinar will highlight how InP-based photonic integrated circuits (PICs) can simplify system designs, reduce space and power consumption, improve reliability and reduce the cost of deploying optical networks.
Christopher R. Doerr earned a B.S. in aeronautical engineering and a B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. in electrical engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA. Since joining Bell Labs in 1995, Doerr’s research has focused on integrated devices for optical communication. He was promoted to Distinguished Member of Technical Staff in 2000, received the OSA Engineering Excellence Award in 2002, and became an IEEE Fellow in 2006. Doerr is also the Editor-in-Chief of IEEE Photonics Technology Letters.
Sign up today and receive a complimentary package of IEEE documents for attending.
Learn more about photonic integrated circuits in IEEE Xplore®
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Visit IEEE at Upcoming Conferences
Stop by and see us at the following conferences to talk about the benefits of subscribing to IEEE information and share tips on making the most of your current subscriptions.
Computers in Libraries
7–9 April 2008
Hyatt Regency Crystal City, Arlington, Virginia, USA
Booth #218
Embedded Systems Conference Silicon Valley
14–18 April 2008
McEnery Conference Center, San Jose, California, USA
Booth #2347
Free exhibit passes and discount conference passes are available exclusively through IEEE. Please send a request to Claire Olini at c.olini@ieee.org. The first 50 people to bring this printed message to the booth will receive drawstring backpacks.
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2009 SLA Board of Directors Candidates Announced
Extending IEEE’s support of the Special Libraries Association (SLA), Ruth Wolfish, IEEE Client Services Manager, has been announced as a candidate for the 2009 SLA Chapter Cabinet Chair Elect. The SLA Nominating Committee presented 10 highly qualified candidates to the sitting Board for election to the 2009 SLA Board of Directors. Recommendations of potential candidates were collected from among the current SLA membership and presented to the Nominating Committee in January 2008. In keeping with the desires of the association, exceptional talent was sought, as well as professionally diverse and regional representation. Candidates will speak at the SLA Annual Conference and INFO-EXPO in Seattle, Washington, USA, 15-18 June 2008. Additionally, in an effort to expose each candidate to a wider audience of members, the association will videotape and post each candidate’s speech to the SLA web site and YouTube. Elections will be held electronically in mid-September 2008.
For more information about SLA’s governance practices and leadership, please visit the Board of Directors section of the SLA web site.
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IEEE Online Training Seminars
Be sure to register for and encourage your colleagues to attend IEEE’s online training seminar, “Searching with IEEE Xplore®.” The online tutorial provides existing and potential customers with free demonstrations, including tips on how to search in the IEEE Xplore digital library.
Tutorials have been scheduled for the following dates in 2008:
1 April at 10 am
8 April at 10 pm
22 April at 7 pm
12 May at 10 am
A tutorial highlighting the ins and outs of IEEE Enterprise is also available on 11 April at 2 pm.
All times noted are Eastern Daylight Time (EDT).
Advance registration is required for all scheduled seminars and space is limited, so please sign up early. Customized tutorials are also available; please contact training@ieee.org for more information on designing a training seminar to fit your needs.
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The Future of the National Science Digital Library
David McArthur, Senior Researcher at GoH and consultant to the National Science Digital Library (NSDL) discusses the benefits for continued investment in the National Science Foundation’s maturing program in the cover story of the February issue of IEEE Computer. The article outlines the past, present and future for the NSDL. Since its inception, the NSDL has provided access to more than 2.5 million digital educational resources, covering science, technology, engineering and mathematics from pre-K to postgraduate levels to support hundreds of research focused projects. Presently, the program has four main tracks for its research projects: Core Integration, a project that coordinates and manages the core library; Services that develop tools to enhance NSDL’s efficiency and value to support users and collection providers; Targeted Research to explore specific topics that have immediate applicability to collections, services and other aspects of NSDL’s development; and Pathways to provide stewardship for the collections and services that major communities require. McArthur sees NSDL “growing both as a platform for improving the productivity of educational resource development and transforming education research and also as a tool for creating and managing scientific knowledge about education and learning.” On a large scale, the program could become a key part of a new cyber infrastructure for education and education research. Read more
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In Brief: New Documents Now Available on the IEEE Xplore® Digital Library
Over 80 journal issues, conference proceedings and standards have been added to the IEEE Xplore digital library in March. Some of the highlights include:
IEEE Transaction on Consumer Electronics
Features articles on high dynamic range imaging, distributed space-time coding, efficient retransmission architecture of digital broadcast services and viewer identification and authentication.
IET Signal Processing
Highlights multicarrier transmission, signal recovery from partial fractional Fourier domain information and kalman filtering for continuous-time systems.
IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Magazine
Covers topics in lower-limb prostheses; assistive technology for cognition; medical-grade, mission-critical wireless networks; and engineering in genomics.
IET International Conference on Wireless, Mobile and Multimedia Networks, 2008
Conference Proceedings
2008 IEEE Radio and Wireless Symposium
Conference Proceedings
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