New DVD Includes All JSSC and ISSCC Papers: the Solid-State Circuits Digital Archive 2000 DVD

This August, the Society will be issuing the Solid-State Circuits Digital Archive 2000. This complete archive comes on a single DVD and contains not only the complete archive through 2000 of all the issues of the Journal of Solid-State Circuits (JSSC) from 2000 back to the first issue in 1966, but also includes the Digests of the International Solid-State Circuits Conference (ISSCC), starting with 1955.

The AdCom thanked Tim Tredwell (right) for his outstanding leadership and contributions to the development and success of the Electronic Archives of the Society. Society President Bruce Wooley presented a plaque to Tredwell in recognition. This year, Tredwell begins serving as the Chairman of the Executive Committee of the International Solid-State Circuits Conference.

Presented through a user-friendly browser portal, articles can be located by date, author, or a single-subject index expanded from the year-end printed indexes of the JSSC. Tables of contents of issues have the same familiar look as the published Journal tables of contents or the conferences' Sessions listing. Each article's abstract summary screen provides:

• a formatted text citation ready to paste into a user's article in composition
• links to the authors' bios
• links effective on the disk to references the authors cited
• links effective on the disk forward to more-recent articles that have cited the work
• the list of subjects identified in the index
• for ISSCC articles, a link to the presentation slides in the slide supplement.

"This version is easier to use than our previous CD and DVD issues of the Society," according to Richard C. Jaeger, chair of the Publications Committee who reviewed the prototype. "It's cool. I like the format; it uses lots of hyperlinks that make browsing more effective."

After searching from a list of keywords, an article's abstract shows all the related keywords for that selection. You can search directly from that list of keywords, or you can choose to view the list of all the works of one of the coauthors, or return directly to the table of contents for that issue. The back button allows more intuitive navigating.

The pages of the articles are available in Adobe Portable Document Format (.pdf) for printing and text searching. Additionally, Acrobat allows the sorting of search results by date. Board and committee listings, awards, letters to the editors, and calls for papers are other ephemera included to make this archive complete.

SSCS Publications Committee, February 2001. (l-r) Tim Tredwell, Lew Terman, Richard Jaeger, Asad Abidi, and David Hodges. The SSCS AdCom approved two recommendations of the Publications Committee: (1) to include all issues of the Digests of the Symposium on VLSI Circuits in a new Digital Archive DVD to be available spring 2002. The DVD will be an archive for all papers from the JSSC, ISSCC, and VLSI Circuits and (2) to send a special issue of the IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques on Integrated and Nonintegrated Silicon RF and Microwave Circuits to all SSCS members in winter 2001.

How to Order

Because the DVD was included as part of the registration fee, registrants at the 2001 ISSCC will automatically receive the new DVD in the mail. Others can order through the IEEE.

The Annual CD

The annual update CD-ROM of the JSSC for the years 1999-2000 is being issued and mailed to all SSCS members in August. This annual update to the complete JSSC on CD Collection also contains the Master Index to all previous issues so one can search on titles, keywords, and authors and review all the article abstracts. This year, the Master Index will also include search data for all the papers and sessions of the ISSCC. A complete set of the JSSC articles from the first issue in 1966 is available on CD. Search for JSSC at www.shop.ieee.org/ store. The ISSCC papers are only available on DVD.

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