Introducing SPIE Digital Library
Introduction
The SPIE Digital Library is an extensive database on optics and photonics research.
The Library includes conference proceedings, peer-reviewed journal articles and eBooks from the areas of astronomy, biophotonics, nanotechnology, sensors, lasers, electro-optics, communications, imaging, and more.
A ‘Quick Start Guide’ provides an overview of the platform, and shows you how to set-up RSS feeds and utilize bibliographic, bookmarking, and research tools.
Contents of the SPIE DigitalLibrary
| Proceedings of SPIE: | Starting at Volume 1200 (1990) |
| Optical Engineering: | Starting at Volume 29 (1990) |
| Journal of Electronic Imaging: | Starting at Volume 1 (1992) |
| Journal of Biomedical Optics: | Starting at Volume 1 (1996) |
| Journal of Micro/Nanolithography, MEMS, and MOEMS: | Starting at Volume 1 (2002) |
| Journal of Applied Remote Sensing: | Starting at Volume 1 (2007) |
| Journal of Nanophotonics: | Starting at Volume 1 (2007) |
| Journal of Photonics for Energy: | Starting at Volume 1 (2011) |
| SPIE eBooks: | A selection beginning 1989 |
Searching the Digital Library
Both Quick and Advanced Search options are available. 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 related SPIE books and educational materials related to a search is also provided. All records contain author links that display other papers by that author.
Browsing the Digital Library
The design architecture of the SPIE Digital Library places an emphasis on browse functionality so that readers 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.
Other Features
Users may sign up for Email Alerts and receive email notification with links to the tables of contents when new Journal issues or Proceedings volumes are published.
The Article Collection feature allows users to mark papers of interest and assign their citations to personal Article Collection folders. This is useful for quick identification and storage of selected citations as well as for sharing bibliographies with other users. To use this feature it is necessary to create a free Scitation login account.
Use this link to setup this "My scitation researcher toolkit" http://scitation.aip.org/register/scireg.jsp
Format and Use Requirements
All full-text papers are provided in PDF format. Journal papers from 2001 are available in both PDF and HTML formats. All PDF papers are searchable using the Find utility in Adobe Acrobat Reader.
Proper display of full-text PDF papers in the SPIE Digital Library requires Adobe Reader 5.0 or higher.