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The IET – Background
The IET
The Institution of Engineering and Technology
• Largest Engineering professional organisation in Europe
• The Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET) has more
than 150,000 members worldwide
• Formed in March 2006 by the Institution of Electrical Engineers
(IEE) and the Institution of Incorporated Engineers (IIE)
• We have active networks of members in 37 countries around
the world
The IET – Background
The IET
The Institution of Engineering and Technology
• The IET produces Inspec, the leading English language
bibliographic information service for scientific and technical
literature.
• The IET organizes more than 120 conferences and events
every year.
• The Institution of Engineering and Technology is registered as
a Charity in England & Wales (no 211014) and Scotland (no
SC038698).
The IET – Background
The IET
The Institution of Engineering and Technology
• The IET is licensed to award the professional qualifications
Engineering Technician (EngTech), Incorporated Engineer
(IEng) and Chartered Engineer (CEng) by the Engineering
Council UK.
• More than £433,000 worth of scholarships are awarded to
students each year.
• The IET accredits more than 160 undergraduate courses in the
UK.
The IET – Background
IET Activities
Professional Registration
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Chartered Engineer - CEng
Incorporated Engineer - IEng
Engineering Technician - EngTech
ICT Technician - ICTTech
Standards and Wiring Regulation
Meetings and Conferences
Promoting the professions
The IET – Background
IET Activities
Primary Publications
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Books
Conference Proceedings
Distant Learning
Journals
Magazines
The IET Digital Library (Online
platform for all IET journals,
magazines and conference
publications)
IET Digital Library (IDL)
IET Digital Library
• 22 Research Journals
• 2 Letters Journals (Electronics Letters and Micro & Nano Letters)
• Conference Proceedings
• Seminar Digest
• IET Magazines
IET Digital Library (IDL)
Journals
Electronics Letters
Micro & Nano Letters
IET Circuits, Devices & Systems
IET Communications
IET Computers & Digital Techniques
IET Computer Vision
IET Control Theory & Applications
IET Electric Power Applications
IET Generation, Transmission & Distribution
IET Image Processing
IET Information Security
IET Intelligent Transport Systems
IET Microwaves, Antennas & Propagation
IET Nanobiotechnology
IET Optoelectronics
IET Power Electronics
IET Radar, Sonar & Navigation
IET Renewable Power Generation
IET Science, Measurement & Technology
IET Signal Processing
IET Software
IET Systems Biology
IET Synthetic Biology
Magazines
Computing and Control Engineering
Communications Engineer
Conferences
IET Conference Publications
IET Seminar Digests
Electronics & Communications Engineering Journal
Engineering Management
Engineering Science and Education Journal
Electronic Systems and Software
Engineering & Technology
IEE Review
Information Professional
Manufacturing Engineer
Power Engineer
http://www.ietdl.org/
IET Digital Library (IDL)
New titles every year in exciting areas of
emerging research
New research journals launching in March 2011
 IET Electrical Systems in Transportation
 IET Wireless Sensor Systems
IET Digital Library (IDL)
IET Digital Library Archive
 Complete collection of research journals and
magazines published by the Institution from
1872-1993
 Over 70,000 peer reviewed articles
 Articles from Electronics Letters from 19651993 available
 Subjects include electrical and electronic
engineering, telecommunications, computing,
power, control, radar, circuits, materials, and
related research in IT
IET Digital Library (IDL)
IET Digital Library Archive
 Your gateway into the history of science and
technology as published by the Institution
 Groundbreaking research from scientists such
as Charles K. Kao, the “Father of Fiber Optics”
 All articles have fully searchable PDFs
 Linked HTML references and citations (where
available)
 A range of purchasing and subscription
options to suit your needs
 Now available online www.ietdl.org/archive
IET eBooks
IET eBooks Library
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Delivered by IET Digital Library (IDL)
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Lounge in 3rd Quarter of 2011
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24/7 access to 300+ titles, with
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Backlist to 1979 with more than 50%
of titles published since 2000
IET eBooks
Comprehensive Coverage
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Control Engineering
Circuits, Devices and Systems
Electrical Technology
Electromagnetic Waves
History of Technology
Manufacturing
Management of Technology
Power and Energy
Professional Applications of Computing
Radar, Sonar, Navigation and Avionics
Renewable Energy
Telecommunications
IET eBooks
Instant access to a variety of technologies
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Inspec empowers search capabilities by title, keyword or subject to
quickly find and download relevant chapters within larger eBooks
Includes content overviews, bibliographic information, book abstracts,
cover scans and tables of contents with links to chapter PDFs
MARC records available
The IET – Background
IET Activities
Secondary Publications – Inspec
The IET – Publication
INSPEC
IEEE Explorer
Organization IET
IEEE
Databases Abstract and Index
Full Text
Coverage
5000 Journals +
200 Journals +
2500 Conference Proceedings
800 Conference Proceedings
Publishers 1000 Publishers
IEEE & IET
Content
Physics
Electrical engineering,
Electrical Engineering and Electronics Computer science
Computer & Control
Electronics
Information Technology
Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering
Content and coverage
World’s most definitive bibliographic database
• World’s leading bibliographic database produced by the major
European engineering professional body
• High quality and integrity
• Achieved ISO 9001:2000 accreditation for the quality of its
production process for several years running
• Quality Award, by the UK Online User Group
• Comprehensive coverage
• Intellectual selection - By engineers for engineers
• Intellectual classification & indexing - By subject specialists
Content and coverage
World’s most definitive bibliographic database
•Over 12 million records (from 1969)
•Updated weekly
•700,000 records added each year
•Over 1000 publishers
•Scans over 5,000 quality journals, 2,500 conference proceedings,
numerous books, reports, dissertations
•Full text linking via DOI (80% of current Journals records)
•Optional Archive file (1898-1968)
Content and coverage
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Inspec Top Publishers
ACM
AIP Publishing
APS
Allerton Press
American Geophys. Union
Astron. Soc. Pacific
Elsevier
Gordon & Breech
IET
IEEE
Inst. Elect. Inf. & Comm. Eng.
World Scientific
Japanese Journal Appl. Physics
MAIK Nauka/Interperiodica
Opt. Soc. America
Plenum
Science Press
Taylor & Francis
Wiley
Springer
SPIE-Int. Soc. Opt. Eng.
IOP Publishing
Univ. of Chicago Press
Content and coverage
Opt. Soc. America
Science Press
Elsevier
Allerton Press
Taylor & Francis
Wiley
Researchers/Scientist
IET
APS
ACM
AIP Publishing
Plenum
Springer
World Scientific
IEEE
Japanese Journal Appl. Physics
Never have enough time and resources to access large number
of full text journals
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Science Press
Elsevier
Springer
IEEE
IET
Japanese Journal Appl. Physics
APS
Plenum
Taylor & Francis
Wiley
Univ. of Chicago Press
IOP Publishing
SPIE-Int. Soc. Opt. Eng.
Content and coverage
Specialised subject indexing
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Thesaurus - dynamic vocabulary of over 10,000 terms
Classification codes
Treatment codes - document types
Numerical data indexing
Chemical substance indexing
Content and coverage
Key resource for global, quality and comprehensive science and
engineering information spanning 110 years for:
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Physics
Electrical and electronic engineering
Communications
Computer science
Control engineering
Information technology
Production and manufacturing engineering
Mechanical engineering
Plus many interdisciplinary subjects such as
nanotechnology, oceanography, environmental
science.....
Content and coverage
• Journal articles: 70%
• Conference proceedings: 20 %
• Conference papers in Journals: 9 %
• Others: 1%
29 %
Journals 70%
Others include:
• Books/Book Chapters
• Reports
• Patents (1968/9-1976)
• Dissertations
Conferences 29%
Others 1%
Content and coverage
Physics
Electronics & Electrical Engineering
Computing & Control
Mechanical, Manufacturing &
Production Engineering
IT for Business
6.61
6.4
million
million
records
records
4.3
million
records
3.1
million
records
961,000
records
102,000
records
Content and coverage
Electrical & Electronic
Engineering(32%)
Physics (58%)
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C
Information
Technology(8%)
E
Mechanical &
Production
Engineering (7.5%)
D
Computing & Control (28%)
Content and coverage
Physics (6.61 Million records)
A0 General
A1 Elementary Particles
A2 Nuclear Physics
A3 Atomic and Molecular
A4 Fundamental Physics
A5 Plasmas & Discharges
A6 Solid State, Non-electronic
A7 Solid State, Electronic
A8 Cross-disciplinary Physics
A9 Geophysics & Astronomy
5 Most Frequently Found Titles:
1. Proceedings of the SPIE
2. AIP Conference Proceedings
3. Journal of Magnetism & Magnetic Materials
4. Physical Review Letters
5. Materials Science & Engineering
Content and coverage
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Physics Journals
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High Energy Physics
Atomic & Molecular Physics
Fluid Dynamics & Plasma & Optics
Solid State Physics
Materials & Mechanics
Biophysics & Biomedical Journals
Astronomy & Astrophysics
Note: Approximate number of Journals is given
266
149
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193
146
129
220
Content and coverage
Electrical & Electronic
(4.3 Million records)
B0
B1
B2
B3
B4
B5
B6
B7
B8
5 Most Frequently Found Titles:
1. Proceedings of the SPIE
2. Materials Science & Engineering B
3. Acta Electronica Sinica
4. Automation of Electric Power Systems
5. Journal of Magnetism & Magnetic Materials
General, Maths and Materials
Circuits
Components, Electron Devices
Magnetic Devices & Materials
Optoelectronics
Electromagnetic Fields
Communications
Instruments & Applications
Power Systems
Content and coverage
Computing & Control
(3.1 M records)
C0 General Management
C1 Systems & Control Theory
C3 Control Technology
C4 Numerical & Computer Theory
C5 Computer Hardware
C6 Computer Software
C7 Computer Applications
5 Most Frequently Found Titles:
1. Proceedings of the SPIE
2. Journal of Software
3. Transactions of the Info Proc. Society
4. Robot
5. Automation of Electric Power Systems
Content and coverage
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Engineering Journals
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Electronics & Telecommunications
Instrumentation/Aerospace
Power Engineering
Control & Systems Engineering
Computing
Note: Approximate number of Journals is given
380
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300
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800
Content and coverage
Information Technology
(102,000 records)
D1 General & Management
D2 Applications
D3 General Systems
D4 Office automation/Communications
D5 Office automation/Computing
Most Frequently Found Titles:
1. Network Computing
2. Wall Street & Technology
3. Manufacturing Computer Solutions
4. Health Management Technology
5. Computer Electronics Report
Content and coverage
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IT Journals for Business
Information Technology Journals
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No. of Journals
150
Accounting Technology
Information Management & Computer Security
Technology in Banking & Finance
Health Management Technology
What to buy for business
Computer Fraud and Security
Home Office Computing
PC World
EDI Forum: The Journal of Electronic Commerce
IT Notes for Banking
Training & Development
Computers & Finance
Network Computing
Content and coverage
Mechanical & Production Engineering
(961,000 records)
E0
E1
E3
General topics in Manufacturing
& Production Engineering
Manufacturing and Production
Industrial Sectors
Most Frequently Found Titles:
1. Journal of Productivity Analysis
2. Control Engineering
3. Greener Management International
4. Ironmaking & Steelmaking
5. Asia Pacific Journal of Management
6. Journal of Quality in Maintenance Engineering
Content and coverage: multidisciplinary
Laser printers
Long-haul lasers [buyer's guide]
Traffic control
Computer games
A principal cognitive precondition of successful
child-computer interactions in the information
society
Traffic signal control by Egograms
Radar
Fully integrated automotive radar sensor
with versatile resolution
Radiation effects
Modeling natural space ionizing radiation
effects on external materials
Photography
Color handling in panoramic
photography
Pacemakers
Paradoxical under sensing at a high
sensitivity in dual chamber pacemakers
Nanotechnology
Environmental science
Molecular motors: nature's
nanomachines
Impact of science and technology on energy
and environmental research and development
Manufacturing
Analysis of a decentralized production-inventory system
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*oxide = dioxide, hydroxide, Peroxide.)
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• Key Words and Phrases from the Inspec Thesaurus
• Also Known as: Thesaurus Terms
• Standardised Spelling, Punctuation, Terminology
• Subject Meaningful; High Relevance
Terms are assigned at the most specific level possible
2006 edition contains approx. 17,300 terms, of which some
9092 are preferred terms, and 8275 are lead-in terms.
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Television – colour /business television, TV.)
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Classification Code format:
First Level
Second Level
Instrumentation &
Special Application
Aerospace facilities and
techniques
Section
Code Letter
Electrical &
Electronic Engineers
 B7650C
Third Level
Ground Support
Fourth Level
(Optional)
Aircraft Control
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 For inorganic compounds and systems
 To overcome a number of problems which arise in
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index terms
 Non-stoichiometric compounds or alloys (e.g. GaAlAs
or GaxAl1-xAs)
 Case sensitive for chemical formula (e.g. Co
(cobalt) or CO (carbon monoxide) )
Chemical indexing is available in the database from 1987 onwards.
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Role Indicators (Basic)
Role Definition
Examples
el
Element
Si; He; Fe
bin
Binary (two components) GaAs; He-Ne laser;
FeMn alloy
ss
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H2SO4; He-Ne-Ar
or more components)
laser; GaAlAs;
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CC
TC
CX
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Standardized Format
QUANTITY
Temperature
VALUE
1.8E +04
UNIT
K
 Quantity: Frequency, temperature
 Value: floating point format: 1.8E +04 for 18000
exponential notation
 Unit: Hertz, Kelvin
Numerical Data Indexing is available in the database from 1987 onwards.
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TC
CX
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Inspec maps own indexing
schemes to the WIPO (World
Intellectual Property Organization)
symbols to be assigned to
relevant records
75% of Inspec records will contain IPC codes
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 Extensive size of database
- 12m records and increase 700K annually
 International coverage
- including core publishers for Science & Engineering
 Clearly defined core subject areas - Physics, Engineering
 Value added search tools:
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 Chemical Indexing
 Numerical Data Indexing
 Astronomical Object Indexing
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available
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Treatment Codes
Numerical Index
Chemical Index