EDS is continuing and expanding its participation in the IEEE project to disseminate transactions, journals, letters and publications on a secure world-wide web site for society member subscribers. The project, dubbed "OPeRA" (On-line Periodicals Research Area) has been available to subscribers of Transactions on Electron Devices (T-ED) and Electron Device Letters (EDL) since January of 1997. This year, we also began offering a CD ROM in lieu of the print versions, which was named the EDS CD ROM Package. This Package was made available for the 1998 membership cycle and it included all 1997 issues of T-ED and EDL plus the 1997 IEDM Technical Digest. The CD ROM Package will again be an option for the 1999 cycle and will include the 1998 versions of these publications. As a future plan, EDS is also considering the addition of the Technical Digests from other EDS financially sponsored meetings to its CD ROM Package.
The Electron Devices Society was one of the 4 charter societies participating in on-line access of IEEE journals. There are currently 11 participating Societies and Councils with 33 journals available. Members from all Societies have access to bibliographical information on all the journals and access to the full article for the journals that they subscribe to. Access is simple. IEEE members can go to the OPeRA site (http://www.opera.ieee.org) and register with their IEEE membership number. They are then given a PIN number and access to any publications that they are entitled to. There is also a demo site available for members without subscriptions. With the start of the 1999 billing cycle (1 September 1998), EDS members will have free access to T-ED, EDL, the new Electrochemical and Solid-State Letters (ESL), and several other journals from the Information Theory, Microwave Theory and Techniques and Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics and Frequency Control societies (please see the article in this newsletter by W. Dexter Johnston).
The use of these on-line capabilities has grown significantly. Transactions on Electron Devices has been consistently one of the most accessed journals of the 33 journals available. We encourage all members of the society to explore this exciting new option for getting your journals.
Steven J. Hillenius
Lucent Technologies, Inc.
Murray Hill, NJ