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Sarah Kelly
Liaison Librarian

Citations to IEEE Journals Continue to Climb

Each year, the Journal Citation Reports (JCR) from Thomson ISI examine the impact of academic journals by determining how often journals' articles are cited by later research. The JCR is available to University members via out WoK subscription (login with your EASE username and password, either on or off campus).

The 2005 study, released in June 2006, shows that IEEE journals maintain a healthy and growing lead in their field. The JCR ranks journals by their impact factor, defined as the average number of times articles published in a specific journal in the previous two years were cited in a particular year.

According to the JCR, IEEE publishes:

• 18 of the top 20 journals in the field of Electrical and Electronic Engineering
• 9 of the top 10 journals in Telecommunications (up from 7 in 2004)
• 7 of top 10 journals in Computer Science, Hardware & Architecture
• 8 of top 20 journals in Computer Science, Information Systems
• 8 of top 20 journals in Computer Science, Software Engineering
• and high-ranking journals in several additional fields of technology

According to Thomson ISI, the JCR "presents quantifiable statistical data that provides a systematic, objective way to evaluate the world's leading journals and their impact and influence in the global research community." See http://www.ieee.org/web/publications/journmag/journalcitations.html for the full article.

IEEE publications are availble via our IEL subscription (a subscription to the IEEE/IET Electronic Library includes full-text access to all IEEE journals, transactions, and magazines; IEEE conference proceedings; IET journals and conference proceedings; and all current IEEE standards) and can be access via the IEEXplore platform (login with your EASE username and password, either on or off campus).

Sarah Kelly
Liaison Librarian

IEEE EMERGING TECHNOLOGIES PORTAL EXPLORES RESOURCES RELATED TO NEW TECHNOLOGIES

The IEEE New Technology Connections Portal offers visitors a look at emerging technologies and resources related to them. Each featured technology includes a general description, upcoming conferences, news articles, technical papers, related standards, professional organizations, and academic programs.

To read more, visit: http://www.ieee.org/web/emergingtech/home/index.html
(freely available)

Sarah Kelly
Liaison Librarian

IET Journal Title Update

IET has released two new journals now available through the IEEE Xplore Digital Library titled:

• IET Synthetic Biology, and
• IET Renewable Power Generation

IEE Proceedings Vision and Image and Signal Processing have been split into:

• IET Computer Vision
• IET Image Processing
• IET Signal Processing

To access these journals, visit: http://ezproxy.lib.ed.ac.uk:2048/login?url=http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/ and enter your EASE username and password (both on an off-campus).

Sarah Kelly
Liaison Librarian

AAAI new name

Alan K. Mackworth
President, AAAI

As our world becomes smaller, scientific communities are becoming increasingly international. National scientific societies are evolving to serve their international constituencies, and in doing so, have come to reconsider their roles, their purposes, their images, their identities, their 'branding' and, consequently, their names. This is such an occasion for AAAI as it embarks on its second quarter century.

AAAI's membership has strong international representation. The same is true of the contributors to, and attendees of, AAAI, and AAAI-sponsored, conferences, symposia, tutorials and workshops. A large fraction of our membership and an even larger fraction of conference paper submissions are from authors based outside the U.S. Beyond the annual conferences held in North America, much of AAAI's mission, activities, and membership are not well-characterized by the label "American." In short, our original name does not reflect our dual roles, national and international, in the global AI community.

Following this line of reasoning, the AAAI Executive Committee recommended changing the name of our organization from the "American Association for Artificial Intelligence" to the "Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence." This proposal drops the adjective "American" from the organization's name but retains the AAAI abbreviation, logo, and 'brand.' More importantly, the mission of the organization does not change. The new name simply reflects current reality and removes potential limitations imposed by the old name as we move forward in an increasingly global scientific environment. We have consulted with many of our sibling AI societies. We have no plans to change the scope or location of our activities as a consequence of the name change.

The proposal initially received enthusiastic support from the AAAI Executive Council (unanimous with one abstention), and the Strategic Planning Committee, consisting of all past presidents and current presidential officers of AAAI. We then put it to a vote of the membership, which approved the proposal. The Executive Council has subsequently unanimously endorsed the name change.

The membership at large shares our enthusiasm for this exciting new face for AAAI. We have complied with the regulations governing organizations such as AAAI in carrying out this name change. I would like, in particular, to thank our Executive Director, Carol Hamilton, and all our staff, for taking on the additional burden of executing the name change proposal in addition to all their regular duties. So I am delighted to report that, effective March 1, 2007, AAAI is now the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence.

Inspec Newlsetter - Winter 2006

The latest edition of the Inspec newsletter, Inspec Matters, is now available.

An archive of previous editions can also be browsed via the IET website.

Sarah Kelly
Liaison Librarian for Informatics

What's New @ IEEE...

... in Signal Processing
... in Wireless
... for Libraries

August 2006

What's New @ IEEE....

... in Curcuits
... in Communications
... in Power
... in Computing
... for Students

August 2006

NEWS: What's New @ IEEE...

• ...in Circuits
• ...in Communiactions
• ...in Power
• ...in Computing
• ...for Students

June 2006

NEWS: What's New @ IEEE...

• ...in Signal Processing
• ...in Wireless
• ...for Libraries

May 2006

NEWS: IEEE Newsroom

1 June

• 2006 IEEE President Scholarship Awarded for Cost-Effective Laser Scanning Device
• IEEE Security & Privacy Magazine and Cigital, Inc. Introduce Podcast Series on Security Issues
• IEEE Partners with Data Center University to Offer Members 10 Percent Discount on Data Center Design and Management Courses

22 May

• IEEE Releases New Research Tool For Power and Energy Organizations

18 May

• Finalists Selected in IEEE Computer Society International Design Competition

NEWS: IEEE Newsroom

17 May

• Electronic IEEE Copyright Form Now Available in Multiple Languages

16 May

• New Voluntary Standard Will Help Purchasers Buy Greener Computers
• IEEE Helps Bring Tech Literature Back to Iraq

15 May

• Submit Questions for 2008 IEEE President-Elect Candidates
• IEEE Foundation Expands List of Matching Gift Program Participants
• New Pricing Studies Reveal IEEE Journals Less Than Half the Cost of Commercial Ones
• IEEE Spectrum Receives National Magazine Awards

5 May

• IEEE Completes First System Standard for Cell Phone Batteries
• IEEE-USA Offers Resources to Assist Tech-Based Entrepreneurs

3 May

• Earn Continuing Education Units Through Free Trial of Expert Now
• 2006 IEEE Standards Association International Award: Call for Nominations

NEWS: What's New @ IEEE...

• ...in Circuits
• ...in Communications
• ...in Power
• ...in Computing
• ....for Students

May 2006

NEWS: IEEE Newsroom

20 April

• IEEE Begins Work on Cyber Security Standard for Electric Utilities
• Computer Society Seeks Nominations for Technology of the Decade Award
• Women in Engineering Group Celebrates Record Growth

18 April

• Proceedings of the IEEE Focuses on the Physiome and High-Level Biology
• IEEE INFOCOM Celebrates 25^th Anniversary
• IEEE U.S. Scholars Invited to Apply for Fulbright-Nokia Grant
• Awards from IEEE Spectrum Honor Innovative Technologies

13 April

• IEEE Spectrum Editor Named One of Most Influential by Folio Magazine

NEWS: IEEE Newsroom

5 April

• IEEE Foundation Matches Funds for Scholarship Donations
• Nanoelectronics Initiative Launched by IEEE Standards Association
  
• Four Business Journalism Awards Garnered by IEEE Spectrum
  

4 April

• New Award Recognizing Ethical Practices Seeks Nominations
• IEEE-USA Publishes New eBooks
  
• Online Publications New COUNTER Compliant

29 March

• President-Elect Leah Jamieson Receives Award for Community Engineering Program

NEWS: IEE now the IET

The Institution of Electrical Engineers (IEE) is now the Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET), which is made up of both the IEE and the Insititution of Incorporated Engineers (IIE). The IET was officially launched on March 31st 2006.

The IET will continue to produce the Inspec databse, which is available to the School via the University subscription to EngineeringVillage2.

All IEE journals are now published by the IET, the full-text of which will continue to be available via the University subscription to IEEEXplore.

Please note the following change:

Engineering and Technology - is the IET's new monthly magazine, which from April 2006 replaces IEE Review and the IIE's Engineering Technology.

NEWS: What's New @ IEEE for Libraries

March 2006 Volume 8, Number 3

1. IEEE Announces COUNTER-Compliant Usage Statistics
2. 3-D Technologies Focus of "Proceedings of the IEEE" Special Issue
3. Cells Unsafe At Any Airspeed? "IEEE Spectrum" Reports
4. New GLOBECOM Proceedings Include 700+ Papers
5. Meet the 2006 New Face of Engineering
6. "IEEE Power & Energy Magazine" Takes Aim at Security Issues
7. Call for 2006 IEEE Education Award Nominations
8. Online Seminars Offer Tips on Searching IEEE Digital Library
9. IEEE Society Continuing Education Programs Listed Online
10. "IEEE Software" Examines History & Future of Software Architecture
11. Previews of Seven New Tutorials Available Online
12. Call for Nominations: Wireless Educators of the Year 2006
13. Save the Date: Bay Area IEEE User Group Coming in April
14. "IEEE Spectrum" to Host Second Online Career Forum

Note: There are various other 'What's New @ IEEE...', click here for the online archives or to subscribe by email.

NEWS: IEEE Newsroom

Update 20 March 2006

• IEEE Computer Society and Samsung SDS Team to Deliver Software Certification in Korea
• New Forensics Publication Pursues Information Security
• IEEE Education News

NEWS: IEEE

IEEE Annual Election

NEWS: IEEE Newsroom

Update 13 March

• New Section Approved by Regional Activities Board
• IEEE Spectrum to Host Online Career Forum
• Wiley-IEEE Press Titles 20 Percent Off Through March
• Two New IEEE Journals Debut Online