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IEEE Xplore (English): Searching

IEEE Xplore is a digital library that offers full-text access to technical literature on electrical engineering, information technology, electronics and related disciplines.

A range of search options in IEEE Xplore

Select first the section to search for under All, Books, Conferences, Courses, Journals & Magazines, Standards, Authors, Citations or Images (beta). These sections are explained in the following tabs.

Enter your search terms in the search bar. You can use an asterisk *, as a wildcard or truncation that stands for zero, one or more alphanumeric characters or een question mark (?) that stands for 1 character.
For example: electro* will also find: electron, electrons, electronic, electronics, electromagnetic, electromechanical and electrostatic.

You can search with the Boolean operators: AND, OR, NOT, NEAR and ONEAR.

A search for computer science java technology will first show results in which all four terms occur.

It's also possible to use Field Searching. There are 24 fields available with the following syntax between quotation marks:

  1. "Document Title":computing
  2. "Authors":B. Smith
  3. "Publication Title":data mining
  4. "Abstract":LTE
  5. "Index Terms":resistor AND capacitor
  6. "Accession Number":16585141
  7. "Article Number":8263303
  8. "Article Page Number":1102305
  9. "Author Affiliations":IBM
  10. "Author Keywords":java
  11. "Author ORCID":0000-0001-6017-975X
  12. "DOI":10.1109/TPDS.2017.2754366
  13. "Funding Agency":Smithsonian
  14. "IEEE Terms":lasers
  15. "ISBN":9780262347051
  16. "ISSN":2169-3536
  17. "Issue":10
  18. "Mesh_Terms":biomedical
  19. "Publication Number":5
  20. "Standards Dictionary Terms":wireless
  21. "Standards ICS Terms":35.240.80
  22. "Standard Number":802.11
  23. "Start Page":1
  24. "End Page":1

 

In All you can search for keywords, phrases, etc. If you want an exact term, place it between quotation marks.
When searching for the terms computer science java technology, the boolean operator AND will be placed default between the terms.

Select Books and search for the terms: computer science java technology. In the overview of results you can see the number of books that have been found, but also results in the other sections. A means that the book is not fulltext available online.

Search in the section Conferences for computer science java technology and you get the next results. A means the article is online fulltext available. 

Click Courses to search for  courses on play technology (since you can't find courses on the terms computer science java technology) . The results show 5 records. None of the courses are free available for the Radboud University. Click on a course to pay and get access.

In the section Journals & Magazines search for the title "IEEE Software" . The quotation marks ensure that you only find the journals with these words in the title:

You can browse or search in Standards by: Collection, Number, Topic, ICS code, Reading Room, IEEE GET Program and IEEE Standerds DIctionary.

Searching a standard  for Java results in 178 hits:

Fill in the first field the First Name/Given Name and in the second Field the Family Name/Last Name/Surname in Authors bar. It is not possible to search for M*, where * stands for zero, one or more characters (truncation or wildcard). There must be at least three characters: e.g. Mar* or M*rk. The full first name Marko gives the best results.

It's possible to search for the citations of a document. Go to Citations and fill in in the search bar: Title of the journal, Volume-number, Issue-number and Page.

When you search for the journal IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics, volume 14, issue 1 and startpage 370 the next information appears:

This paper is cited 84 times:

In this beta-version you can search in 30 million images embedded in journal and conference documents.
Search for Javascript and the next 2451 results appear:

Click on an image and more information appears:

If you click on a title the next information may appear:

 

 

1. Information on the Title, Publisher, Cite this (Plain text, BibTeX, RIS (EndNote) and Refworks) and look for the fulltex with the button PDF
2. Information on References, Share, Request permission for reuse, Sign in with personal account required for save to, Alerts
3. The abstract
4. Information on ISSN, Authors, Keywords and Metrics.

 

The result of a search can look like this:


1. Download PDFs: you can select a maximum of 10 articles to download the full-text of the articles as a ZIP-file on your computer.
2. Select the amount (10, 25, 50, 75 or 100) to show on your screen.
3. Select some results and Export the search results as a .CSV document, or the citations in a certain format to eg EndNote, or to Collabratec (online program of IEEE to collect references and become a member of a community.Set a free account) or to My Research Projects.
4. Set Search Alerts: create a free login and create an alert for your search.
5. Sorting your results by Relevance, Newest, Oldest, etc. ...

Some search tips:

  • Stemming, or searching by word stems: if you search for run, it will automatically also search for running, etc.
    If you don’t wish to use stemming, you can place the search term between double quotation marks: e.g. “run”
  • IEEE Xplore automatically looks for British and American spellings of words: e.g. localization and localisation
  • Searching with a wildcard or asterisk: You can use an asterisk (*) at the beginning, middle or end of a word:
    e.g. Computer* will find Computers and computerize. Asterisk wildcards cannot be used in a full-text search or with the NEAR and ONEAR operators.

More search tips for IEEE Xplore