UNH students, staff and faculty now have access to the IEEE/IET Electronic Library (for a description of what IEL provides click here). I would like to thank Jennifer Carroll and Emily Poworoznek of the UNH Library for acquiring this excellent resource for our campus. Andrew Kun
Category Archive: IEEE Xplore
Sep
30
Firefox and literature review
Literature review is a big part of a scientific underatkening. Thanks to the Internet, most papers are available on line. This resulted (at least for me) in a big number of papers that I read and stored for feature references… Welcome to the age of data mining. As a researcher I have yet another problem …
Jun
02
IEEE Member Digital Library: Poor performance
As I’ve said in a previous post, IEEE’s Member Digital Library (MDL) really needs technical help. I continue to have problems accessing this service from work (!) because UNH’s subscription “interferes” with the IEEE system’s ability to recognize my login. So one minute I can access papers, the next I’m told that my subscription doesn’t …
Apr
30
IEEE Xplore problems continue
As I’ve written here before, I really cannot believe how poorly IEEE Xplore works. I have what the IEEE calls the IEEE Member Digital Library. This is a $35/month (!) service that allows you to download 25 (!!!) papers a month. So, I just tried to download a paper with the following result: Seems pretty …
Feb
28
IEEE, please fix Xplore search!
IEEE’s Xplore service is an important source of papers for electrical and computer engineers. However, its search feature is frustratingly poor. Here is an example of how poorly the search works. In advanced search, I initiated a query for “speech analysis by homomorphic prediction” and I specified that I want the query to look at …