Overview
The IET Digital Library contains IET eBooks, IET Journals past and present, our Engineering & Technology magazine, conference publications and seminar digests. Together these encompass a wide range of essential information in electrical and electronic engineering, telecommunications, computing, power, control, radar, circuits, materials, the life sciences and IT.
Users can expect all the functionality of an advanced online platform, plus extra features to aid research and sharing. In addition to outstanding search capability, users can take advantage of personalization and share functionalities across all content or individual subject collections.
The IDL also contains the IET Journals Archive, which allows for perpetual access to more than 150,000 peer-reviewed articles published between 1872-2006 across 71 journals and 39 magazines.
Key features
Search
- By title, keyword, issue date and author name (click on name to initiate search)
- By Inspec classification and indexing
- Browse table of contents and abstracts
- IET Digital Library content indexed by Google
- Save any search query as your own dynamic RSS feed
Linking
- To Inspec abstracts of cited articles
- Via CrossRef to cited full text
- From an article to those that cite it
Customer usage statistics
- COUNTER4 compliant
Personalization
- Table of contents email alerts service
- Save abstracts and links to articles in ‘My Articles’
- Bookmark favourite titles in ‘My Publications’ list
- Pay-per-view access to articles for non-subscribers
Share information
- Download citations on EndNote, BibTeX, plain text and other formats
New
- Healthcare Technology Letters is now fully open-access as of 2017. This joins three new OA journals launched by the IET since 2016: IET Cyber-Physical Systems: Theory & Applications, High Voltage and Engineering Biology
Benefits
With the IET Digital Library, you’ll be able to stay at the forefront of international developments in physics, engineering and technology through a combination of books, conference proceedings and journals.
From 1994 onwards, there are more than 150,000 technical papers and 6,000 eBook chapters available; in addition, approximately 450 new documents are added to the IDL each month, so you can be sure that you have access to the most recent research being published in your field.
Your field - what is your field? That question brings us to the main benefit of the IDL. You already know that our eBooks cover 11 specialist topics and our Journals Archive covers the foundational history of 9 engineering and technology topics. But what the IDL unlocks for you is not just access to this information, but an easy way to visualize and navigate it all through the Subjects tab.
The subject page allows you to browse through the IET’s 5 main areas of focus—physics, electrical and electronic engineering, computer and control engineering, mechanical and production engineering, and IT for business—and drill down into key concepts to see what the IDL has to say about them. Whether you are a subject expert or a casual researcher, this page allows you to navigate and closely examine complex topics and also see the relevant and top-notch content on the IDL that addresses those topics.
In summary, the IDL not only gives you access to the best information in physics, engineering and technology, but a logical and user-friendly way to navigate and understand that information in a way that can be useful to users of all kinds.