Personal IEEE Account

Find out the benefits of an IEEE Xplore personal account below. For instructions on personal sign-in through EZproxy, download the instructions from the Account Management page.

Benefits of a Personal Account

Anyone can sign up for a free IEEE Account on IEEE Xplore. A personal account allows you to:

• Set search preferences
• Save and manage research projects
• Save searches and search history
• View history of purchased documents
• Get email or RSS alerts of saved search results
• Get email or RSS alerts of updated tables of contents

My Research Projects

When signed in with an IEEE personal account, you can use My Research Projects to save and categorize documents in IEEE Xplore. You can create up to 15 projects with up to 1,000 documents each. Custom Tags let you connect documents with matching concepts within projects.

My Research Projects can be found under My Settings in the main navigation on IEEE Xplore.

Learn more about My Research Projects.

Follow This Author

With a personal account, you can "Follow This Author" from an author's page to be notified when new publications are available.

My Favorite Journals & Magazines

Click the heart icon on journal homepages to get the latest from your favorite journals.

Signing Up for an IEEE Account

Follow these steps to sign up for a free personal IEEE account.

1. Go to IEEE Xplore and click at the top-right.
2. Click . IEEE Xplore displays the Account Registration form.
3. Enter your first and last name.
4. Specify a username (email address) and password. Passwords:
   • Must be case sensitive
   • Must contain between 8 to 20 characters
   • Must contain at least one digit or symbol
   • Cannot contain spaces
   • Cannot contain the word "password"
5. Click . IEEE Xplore displays a confirmation box and signs you in to IEEE Xplore.
6. Click to re-enter IEEE Xplore.