SPIE Conference Content Management and Publication Services

Take advantage of SPIE's publishing and content management expertise to produce and distribute the proceedings for your conference.

Each year SPIE organizes high-quality conferences that publish hundreds of proceedings volumes and many journal special sections in optics and photonics. SPIE also provides conference content management and publication services to other high-quality conferences in these fields. If your conference is a good fit with SPIE programs in subject matter and quality, SPIE can provide its expertise and services in the critical processes of content submission, selection, and publication. 

Each year SPIE publishes and distributes in print and via the SPIE Digital Library more than 300 volumes of high-quality proceedings from conferences addressing topics related to optics and photonics. These proceedings are published before or immediately after the conference, thus ensuring availability of these important papers while they are most valuable.

SPIE conference content management and publication services include:

• expert SPIE staff working closely with conference organizers, reviewers, and authors to ensure high-quality and efficient content management and proceedings publication
• easy abstract submission through the MySPIE website in which tens of thousands of optics and photonics researchers are registered
• simple setup of conference organizers and reviewers in MySPIE
• user-friendly peer review of abstracts and author notification through MySPIE
• professional design and preparation of abstract booklets
• Proceedings of SPIE templates for manuscripts
• author submission of manuscripts through MySPIE
• review and acceptance of manuscripts through MySPIE
• choice of pre-conference or post-conference publication of proceedings
• format options--print, CD, USB flash drive--for proceedings provided to authors and conference participants
• option for SPIE or conference organizers to manage production and distribution of proceedings books, CDs, or USB flash drives
• journal special sections may be available to compatible conferences with organizers who will recruit guest editors and ensure strong peer review
• proceedings and journals issued promptly in the highly regarded and widely accessible SPIE Digital Library, thus providing worldwide exposure for research
• proceedings and journals indexed in scientific and engineering databases, such as Web of Science Conference Proceedings Citation Index- Science, Scopus, INSPEC, Ei Compendex, Chemical Abstracts, The Harvard-Smithsonian/NASA Astrophysics Data System (ADS), and others
• proceedings and journals promoted on SPIE.org, through the SPIE New Titles Update book alerting service, and to audiences at SPIE Events and other optics and photonics conferences

If SPIE provides your conference content management and/or publication services, your conference content will be assembled smoothly and your publications will be widely indexed, easily accessed, read by those in your fields, cited in research and patent literature, and respected.

Contact Mary Summerfield as you begin to plan your conference so that we may determine the services you need, prepare a service agreement, and set up your MySPIE access as you develop the website and issue the call for papers for the conference.