The Computer Society Digital Library (CSDL)
CSDL covers an overlapping but in some cases different set of materials than those found in IEL.
Please remember that IEL includes the publications that appear in our printed packages namely,
ASPP and the POPs. Basically, CSDL, produced by the IEEE Computer Society, includes
conferences that are not included in the POPs program and therefore are not considered part of the
IEL.
Update 24/7/06:
The IEEE Computer Society Digital Library (CSDL) provides:
nbsp; Web access to 23 IEEE Computer Society periodicals from 1988 forward
Includes over 1,700 conference proceedings from 1995 forward
Anniversary-basis or calendar-year subscriptions
Powered by the CSLSP-e electronic delivery platform on www.computer.org
Full-text, searchable HTML format plus PDF
IP authentication: Every user at your site can access CSLSP-e articles
No limit on concurrent users
Electronic access in advance of the periodicals print publications
Further details are available at: http://www.computer.org/ then click on the "Digital Library" link at the
top left side of page
Compare features between IEEE Online products
http://www.ieee.org/products/onlinepubs/info/comparefeatures.html
The IEEE Computer Society Digital Library price for a 12 month subscription, with unlimited
concurrent users is US$14,795
* Price valid until 30th November 2006.
Update 15/10/02
*** A COMPARISON OF CSDL WITH RESPECT TO IEL ***
For 2003, CSDL costs a member approx. $110 US/year. Libraries may subscribe for 2003 for $12,395
US, with discounted consortium rates available.
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CSDL hosts Computer Society (CS) journal publications starting from 1988 (versus 1988 for IEL)
except for IEEE Annals of the History of Computing, which goes back to Volume 1 (published in
1979).
CSDL hosts CS conference proceedings starting from 1995 *(versus 1988 for IEL).
For 2003, CSDL is limited to 20 Computer Society magazines and transactions *(versus over 105
for IEL, including the 20 of CSDL.
Future - CSDL will be exchanging digital library metadata with the ACM. Each digital library will
provide links to the other's site.
Our digital library is a subset of the larger IEEE packages, but you may have members who are
offering only undergraduate programs in computer science or whose budgets can't afford the larger
IEEE packages.
Update 11/8/00
From iel-trace@ieee.org
- CSDL does not cover any IEEE Standards
- CSDL does not cover any IEE publications (Journals, Conferences, Colloquia)
- CSDL displays citation information with abstracts FOR FREE TO ALL WEB SURFERS
*(versus TOCs only for non-members; citations with abstracts limited to subscribers and IEEE
members with web accounts)
- CSDL PDF quality is better: usually distilled from PostScript(PS); Magazines usually in color
*(versus only the last 18 months-or-so distilled from PS, almost nothing in color, but we're working to
replace the old PDFs with good PS PDFs in IEL)
- Timeliness: issues appear in CSDL first, before they reach IEL for processing and INSPEC for
Indexing
*(IEL must wait for CS to push files to us for processing after CSDL processing complete)
- Search functions: IEL includes (soon) searchable HTML versions of document *(versus CSDL's
searchable distilled PS PDF files)
- Future: IEL will include reference linking