About Content in IEEE Xplore
About Content in IEEE Xplore

About Content in IEEE Xplore

The IEEE Xplore digital library is a powerful resource for discovery and access to scientific and technical content published by the IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers) and its publishing partners.

Content Types in IEEE Xplore

The following content types are available on IEEE Xplore:

Books

The IEEE Press and the IEEE Computer Society Press jointly develop and publish books with John Wiley & Sons, Inc. in the fields of electrical, computer, and software engineering under the Wiley-IEEE Press and Wiley-IEEE Computer Society Press imprints.

The following information is freely available to all users:

  • Current bibliographic data on all active book titles in all programs.
  • Searchable PDF files of a representative chapter, the preface, and the full table of contents for each book title (when available).
  • Searchable PDF files of book chapters. Institutions can purchase a subscription to all books. IEEE members have access to any book with a copyright date greater than three years old. Individual book chapters can also be purchased individually with discounted pricing available to IEEE members.

When appropriate, book pages provide links to Wiley.com for purchase of hardcover or paperback editions and, when available, book editions. Other books are available through IEEE Xplore.

Browse Browse dropdown or search Search button to locate and purchase books of interest. Before buying a book, please check with your librarian or information professional. A copy may be available to you at no additional cost.

Conferences

IEEE publishes more than 2,000 leading-edge conference proceedings every year, which are recognized by academia and industry worldwide as the most vital collection of consolidated published papers in electrical engineering, computer science, and related fields.

Fields of interest for conference publications include, but are not limited to:

  • Bioengineering
  • Communication, Networking and Broadcast Technology
  • Computing and Processing
  • Field, Waves and Electromagnetics
  • General Topics for Engineers
  • Power, Energy and Industry Applications
  • Robots and Control Systems
  • Signal Processing and Analysis
  • And many more

Download a full list of IEEE conference titles found in IEEE Xplore

Visit the IEEE Publications Recommender to get help choosing a conference to publish in.

For more information about packages to purchase, visit the Memberships and Subscriptions Catalog. Learn more about Subscription Options.

If you have any questions about content published by IEEE conferences, please contact IEEE Meetings, Conferences & Events: ieee-mce@ieee.org.

Courses

IEEE Xplore offers online course titles in the IEEE Learning Network, in addition to IEEE-USA professional development courses. Topics covered include:

  • Aerospace
  • Bioengineering
  • Communication, Networking & Broadcasting
  • Components, Circuits, Devices & Systems
  • Computing & Processing
  • Engineering Profession
  • English for Engineering
  • Fields, Waves & Electromagnetics
  • General Topics for Engineers
  • Photonics & Electro-Optics
  • Power, Energy, & Industry Applications
  • Robotics & Control Systems
  • Signal Processing & Analysis
  • Transportation

Note: The IEEE Learning Network has scheduled maintenance on Saturdays from 12:00-5:00am ET.

Journals & Magazines

IEEE publishes leading journals, transactions, letters, and magazines in electrical engineering, computing, biotechnology, telecommunications, power and energy, and dozens of other technologies. OUP, MIT Press, TUP, IET, Nokia Bell Labs, CIE, IBM, River Publishers, SAIEE, AGU, BIAI, CES, CMP, CPSS, CSEE, Ericsson, IEICE, KICS, PTP, SGEPRI, and URSI journal articles are also available in IEEE Xplore.

See Journal Citation Metrics for information on journal metrics in IEEE Xplore.

Standards

The IEEE is the leading developer of global standards in a broad range of industries including biomedical and healthcare, information assurance, information technology, nanotechnology, power and energy, telecommunications, and transportation.

What's in IEEE Xplore?

IEEE approved standards and unapproved/approved draft standards are available in IEEE Xplore to IEEE Standards Online and IEL subscribers.

You can get the standards in topically related collections as subscriptions. You can also purchase standards individually through IEEE Xplore.

Important Information Regarding Drafts

Unapproved and approved draft standards are included as part of the IEEE Standards Online subscription package at no additional cost. IEL subscribers can purchase an add-on package that contains draft standards.

Not all versions of drafts are made available, and drafts consisting of only updated text may be included. Therefore, the latest complete draft under development may not be provided.

Unapproved drafts are proposed IEEE standards. As such, these documents are subject to change and should be used at your own risk. Because these drafts are unapproved, they must not be utilized for any conformance/compliance purposes.

Important Information Regarding Archived Standards

Archived standards are not current IEEE standards and may be either withdrawn, replaced, or superseded by other standards.

Archived standards may have value as historical documents, but they are not valid or approved IEEE standards. The IEEE shall not be liable for any damages resulting from the subscriber's or registered user's practice of this unapproved, archived IEEE standard.

Journal Bibliometrics

The Journal Citation ReportsTM (JCR) and CiteScoreTM metrics provide quantitative tools for ranking, evaluating, categorizing, and comparing journals. These metrics—including Journal Impact FactorTM, Eigenfactor® Score, Article Influence® Score, and CiteScore metrics are available where applicable. These metrics examine the influence and impact of scholarly research journals.

The values displayed for the journal bibliometrics fields in IEEE Xplore are based on the Journal Citation Report from Clarivate from the 2023 report released in June 2024. The values displayed for CiteScore metrics are from Scopus 2023 report released in June 2024.

Journal Impact Factor

Journal Impact Factor is the average number of times articles from a journal published in the past two years have been cited in the JCR year. The Journal Impact Factor is a so-called popularity measure which relies on the crude number of citations, each of them counting the same independently of the quality of the source.

Eigenfactor Score

Eigenfactor Score takes into account the number of times articles from a journal published in the last five years have been cited in the JCR year while also considering which journals have contributed these citations. Since citations are in this case weighted dependently on the source, The Eigenfactor Score belongs to the class of so-called prestige measures. The Eigenfactor Score represents the probability of reading a specific journal in the entire collection and therefore high-scoring journals have a greater influence in the scientific community.

Article Influence Score

Article Influence Score is also a prestige measure and has all the features of the Eigenfactor Score, with an additional normalization to the number of published papers. Hence it can be considered the average influence of a journal's articles over the first five years after publication.

CiteScore

CiteScore is a measure reflecting the yearly average number of citations to recent articles published in a journal. The calculation is based on the citations recorded in the Scopus database using citations for articles published in the preceding four years.

Find out more about IEEE Journal Rankings.

Publishing and Indexing Partners

IEEE Xplore hosts content published by the following organizations:

  • IEEE—periodicals, conference publications, and standards
  • Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET)—conference publications
  • Oxford University Press (OUP)—journal publications
  • Massachusetts Institute of Technology Press (MIT)—Books collection
  • VDE VERLAG—conference publications
  • American Geophysical Union (AGU)—Journal publications
  • International Business Machines, Inc. (IBM)—select periodicals
  • Nokia Bell Labs—Bell Labs Technical Journal
  • Wiley—Books collection
  • SAE—Books collection
  • Beijing Institute of Aerospace Information (BIAI) —Journal of Systems Engineering and Electronics
  • Tsinghua University Press (TUP)—Tsinghua Science and Technology
  • River Publishers—Books collection and journal publications
  • URSI—Journal publications
  • SGEPRI—journal publications
  • Artech House—Books collection
  • Chinese Society for Electrical Engineering (CSEE)—CSEE Journal of Power and Energy Systems (JPES)
  • Princeton University Press—Books collection
  • now Publishers—Books collection
  • SAIEEE—Journal publications
  • PTP—Journal publications
  • CES—Journal publications
  • CMP—Journal publications
  • CPSS—Journal publications
  • Packt Publishing—Books collection
  • IEICE—Journal publication

Indexing Partners

IEEE has partnering relationships with Abstracting and Indexing Services and Web Discovery Services. These partnerships mean that many more researchers will see IEEE papers, far beyond the number who receive the single IEEE publication in which a paper is published. The indexes can help increase how often a paper is read and cited, enhancing the author's reputation. Download full listing of IEEE Indexing Agreements (PDF, 817 KB).

Discovery Services

Web scale discovery services are designed to provide a simple Google-like search box, which enables library users to search all of the library's resources with a single query. Discovery services search a unified index covering subscriptions to full-text databases such as the IEEE Xplore® Digital Library, A&I databases, the library's own collections, and many other sources. IEEE content is indexed by four major discovery vendors: EBSCO Discovery Service, Ex Libris' Primo, OCLC WorldCat, and Serials Solutions' Summon. Learn more.

Collections in IEEE Xplore

The IEEE Xplore database contains the following collections:

  • Journals, transactions, letters, and magazines published by the IEEE, with select content dating back to 1884.
  • Journals published by OUP, MIT Press, TUP, IET, Nokia Bell Labs, CIE, IBM, River Publishers, SAIEE, AGU, BIAI, CES, CMP, CPSS, CSEE, Ericsson, IEICE, KICS, PTP, SGEPRI, and URSI, dating back to 1930.
  • Conference proceedings published by the IEEE, IET and VDE VERLAG dating back to 1988.
  • IEEE technical standards and specifications, including active, revised, archived, and draft standards dating from 1948.
  • Top eBook titles from the leading publishers in technologies relevant to engineers and researchers. These eBooks cover topics such as AI, smart grid, 5G, cybersecurity, big data, and others. The titles are carefully reviewed and curated by experts, and are authored by celebrated scientists, award-winning authors, and renowned researchers. The eBooks are available in either full-book or chapter format, and are DRM-free.
  • Courses representing the best of IEEE conferences, workshops, and seminars in an interactive format.

Reproducibility Badges

Some articles in IEEE Xplore have Code and/or Datasets that have been submitted by authors along with published works. IEEE Xplore document pages have badges on the top of the page to denote the availability of this supplemental information. There are four types of badges:

  1. Available:
    The code and/or datasets, including any associated data and documentation, provided by the authors is reasonable and complete and can potentially be used to support reproducibility of the published results.

  2. Reviewed:
    The code and/or datasets, including any associated data and documentation, provided by the authors is reasonable and complete, runs to produce the outputs described, and can support reproducibility of the published results.

  3. Reproducible:
    This badge signals that an additional step was taken or facilitated to certify that an independent party has regenerated computational results using the author-created research objects, methods, code, and conditions of analysis. Reproducible assumes that the research objects were also reviewed.

  4. Replicated:
    This badge signals that an independent study, aimed at answering the same scientific question, has obtained consistent results leading to the same findings (potentially using new artifacts or methods). This badge is awarded by the publisher of the original work that is being badged.
Reproducibility Badges