The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) has collaborated with Access Innovations, Inc. to complete a comprehensive re-indexing of about 2.1 million of the 2.8 million IEEE article records in the IEEE Xplore Digital Library database.
IEEE Xplore contains IEEE publications from 38 specialised societies and seven technical councils serving more than 400,000 members in 160 countries. IEEE publishes more than 1,300 standards and sponsored over 1,200 conferences in 2010.
Currently, Xplore's electronic library includes 2,828,776 documents, of which about 2.1 million (74 percent) are IEEE publications. IEEE Xplore's additional articles come from IET (Institution of Engineering and Technology), the AIP/AVS Applied Physics Library and the IBM Journal of Research and Development.
This is the seventh major collaboration between IEEE and Access Innovations. To complete the latest project, Access Innovations used an implementation of Data Harmony Metadata Extractor to determine the article's content type and then built an improved rules base to identify content types in order for each type to be indexed in a specific way using the IEEE Thesaurus.
Access also reviewed term usage throughout the IEEE Thesaurus. It also suggested ways to continue to improve the IEEE Thesaurus going forward by providing gap analysis to identify areas not covered specifically and term overuse reporting.
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