The Electron Devices Society is committed to its on-line access and CD ROM versions of its periodicals. The Society is continuing its participation in the IEEE on-line access dubbed "OPeRA" (On-line Periodicals Research Area), to disseminate transactions, journals and letters on a secure world-wide web site for society members. This is now part of the larger IEEE Xplore interfaces which, when fully implemented later this year, will expand the access of journals back to 1988. Since the start of the project in January of 1997, EDS' Transactions on Electron Devices (T-ED) and Electron Device Letters (EDL) have been available on-line. In 1998, EDS also began offering an annual CD ROM in lieu of the print versions of T-ED and EDL, which was named the EDS CD ROM Package. Each Package includes the past year's issues of T-ED and EDL, as well as the technical digest of the International Electron Devices Meeting (IEDM).
Most of the IEEE journals are currently available on OPeRA. As an EDS member, you have free on-line access to the full articles of the EDS sponsored publications: T-ED, EDL and Electrochemical and Solid-State Letters (ESL). Due to the establishment of mutual access agreements with other IEEE societies and one publications committee, EDS members also have free on-line access to Transactions on Information Theory, Journal of Lightwave Technology, Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques, Microwave and Wireless Components Letters and Transactions on Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics and Frequency Control. Free on-line access for EDS members was a new benefit given to EDS members as of the start of the 1999 IEEE membership cycle on 1 September 1998. In addition to the on-line access to periodicals included with EDS membership, Transactions on Semiconductor Manufacturing and the Journal of Microelectromechanical Systems are available on-line to their respective member subscribers of the print version.
OPeRA access is simple. IEEE members can go to the OPeRA site through the Xplore URL (http://www.ieee.org/ieeexplore) and register with their IEEE membership number. They are then given a PIN number and access to any publications that they are entitled to. We encourage all members of the society to explore this new option for getting your journals.
For the upcoming 2001 IEEE membership cycle, the 2000 CD ROM Package will be offered. If you would like to purchase the 1997, 1998 or 1999 CD ROM Packages, please contact the EDS Executive Office. As for the 2000 CD ROM Package, you can add this item to your 2001 IEEE membership renewal bill when you receive it this Fall.
Steven J. Hillenius
Lucent Technologies Inc.
Murray Hill, NJ