Technical professional organisation IEEE has announced a partnership with Bell Labs, the global research arm of Alcatel-Lucent, to host the Bell Labs Technical Journal (BLTJ) in the IEEE Xplore Digital Library. The BLTJ is a peer-reviewed journal that aims to promote progress in communications worldwide and includes key research from Bell Labs and Alcatel-Lucent leaders in the fields of telecommunications, computer science, and engineering. The journal archive, dating to 1922, includes over 6,000 papers.
With the journal's move to the IEEE Xplore Digital Library, the BLTJ has been transitioned from a quarterly print journal to an online journal that will post content focused around highlighting its cutting-edge research. The new content will feature Bell Labs research aimed at delivering solutions that offer ten-fold improvements in information and communications systems and technology, focusing on a wide range of topics from photonics and spatial multiplexing to vectoring to new radio technologies, as well as radical new network and control-plane architectures and software systems.
The IEEE Xplore Digital Library is also hosting the entire journal archive from the past 92 years, including the Bell System Technical Journal (1922-1983), AT&T Bell Laboratories Technical Journal (1984), and AT&T Technical Journal (1985-1996). Seminal papers in the archives include Shannon's 'A Mathematical Theory of Communication,' which gave birth to Information Theory.
