The Society of Photo-Optical Instrumentation Engineers, Inc. (SPIE) has announced that SPIE Press Field Guides, handbooks, monographs and tutorial texts are now available in the SPIE Digital Library with the recent beta launch of SPIE eBooks. By year-end 2010 SPIE eBooks will include about 140 titles covering key topics in optics, photonics and imaging.
SPIE eBooks are fully integrated into the SPIE Digital Library, enabling researchers and students to cross-search and access journals, proceedings and books on a single site. Institutions may purchase collections of SPIE eBooks. As with technical articles, eBook chapters are also available for individual purchase. Selected chapters are open-access in order to enable free exploration of the site. New titles will be available online ahead of print.
The SPIE Digital Library is hosted on the American Institute of Physics’ Scitation3 platform. It is claimed to comprise the world's largest resource for optics and photonics research with nearly 285,000 journal and proceedings articles from 1990 to the present. Topics span the broad interdisciplinary fields of optics, photonics, and imaging, with applications spanning biomedicine, communications, energy, aerospace, defense, manufacturing, computing, entertainment and electronics.
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