The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) and IBM, US, have announced a publishing agreement. Under the deal, all papers published in IBM journals will be available exclusively in the IEEE Xplore digital library (www.ieee.org/ieeexplore) from the first quarter of 2010 onwards. The aim is to disseminate key technical articles and papers in computer hardware, software and information systems to a wider audience of researchers and interested readers around the world.
The IBM Journal of Research and Development, which now includes the IBM Systems Journal, is claimed to be one of the top-cited journals in the field. The two, which have been published online since 1998, merged into one fee-based online publication in 2009. The production of future editions of the current publication, the IBM Journal of Research and Development, will be handled by IEEE. IBM will be responsible for the content acquisition and peer review, while IEEE assumes the article production, copy editing, data conversion, online hosting and maintenance.
Users can purchase single IBM journal articles via IEEE Xplore or opt for a subscription package to the entire journal, including all issues ever published, starting in 1957. IEEE members and digital library subscribers also will be able to add the journals to their current subscription packages.
IEEE has been forming publishing and subscription agreements with various organisations. In June 2009, it teamed up with two physics organisations - the American Institute of Physics (AIP) and AVS - to offer a new subscription package. The package is available through IEEE Xplore. Developed for corporations and government research centres, the AIP/AVS Applied Physics Library offers subscribers unlimited access to five journals in applied physics, including archives dating back to 1930.
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