The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), US, has announced the launch of its first mobile version of the IEEE Xplore digital library. More than two million documents can now be searched via any mobile device with Internet access.
Using IEEE Xplore Mobile Beta, users can conduct basic search, display the top 10 results by relevancy, and view abstracts and citations. To view the full-text of an article, the user can email the link to any email address and, if they are a subscriber, view the article directly from the main IEEE Xplore Web site on their personal computer. Non-subscribers can purchase the article or subscribe to the IEEE Xplore digital library.
According to IEEE, IEEE Xplore users conduct an average of 200,000 searches a day, and in 2008 made an average of seven million downloads a month or 230,000 a day – up 60 percent from 2004. The growing popularity of using mobile devices for Internet access was a key motivation driving the development of the mobile version. Another impetus for the mobile search option was the popularity of IEEE content. In recent studies by 1790 Analytics LLC, IEEE journals and conference proceedings received more than 117,000 patent citations — nearly 3.5 times the number of citations of any other publisher.
Two million engineers, scientists, students and other technology professionals worldwide have access to IEEE’s 144 journals, transactions, and magazines through individual and institutional subscriptions. In 2008, a record number of authors contributed 171,000 articles – 82 percent more than in 2004. There are also more than 4,300 customer sites, worldwide, accessing IEEE electronic subscription packages.
IEEE is inviting users to send their feedback on this new Beta service. Other enhancements will debut in 2010 based on feedback from Beta users.
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