Access a Million App Notes Through IEEE Xplore

Access a Million App Notes Through IEEE Xplore
BY JOHN R. PLATT
More than a million documents containing practical, applied information on engineering topics are now available through the IEEE Xplore digital library. Known as application notes, the documents have been published by organizations to explain, illustrate, or promote their technologies and products.
Although the notes are not created or endorsed by the IEEE, the institute has partnered with GlobalSpec, a technology search engine and information resource, to provide access to them. GlobalSpec helps locate technical articles, product specifications, and other types of online technical information. Last year the IEEE allowed GlobalSpec to index the documents in the IEEE Xplore digital library, so engineers searching GlobalSpec’s database would also find links to IEEE articles. They could then access the articles if they are IEEE members.
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