SPIE Proceedings Publishing Services

Take advantage of SPIE's publishing expertise to produce and distribute the proceedings for your conference. 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 Proceedings publishing services include:

• SPIE publishing staff working closely with conference organizers, reviewers, and authors to ensure high quality and efficient publication of Proceedings
• a choice of pre-conference or post-conference publication
• online manuscript submission service for authors and review for organizers
• completion of Proceedings publication within 13 weeks of submission of final approved manuscripts
• option of providing conference attendees with Proceedings in print or CD-ROM format, with production and distribution managed by SPIE or conference organizers
• publishing Proceedings promptly in the highly regarded SPIE Digital Library, thus providing worldwide exposure and access
• indexing in major scientific and engineering databases as appropriate, including INSPEC, Ei Compendex, Chemical Abstracts, International Aerospace Abstracts, The Smithsonian/NASA Astrophysics Data System (ADS), ISI's Index to Scientific and Technical Proceedings, and others
• inclusion in the SPIE print and online catalogs, which reach more than 40,000 libraries and individuals
• promotion electronically on SPIE.org and through SPIE's free book alerting service, New Titles Update
• promotion to related audiences at SPIE events and related conferences

If SPIE is your publisher, your Proceedings will be widely indexed, easily accessed, read by those in your fields, cited in research and patent literature, and respected.

Contact Mary Summerfield at least six months before your conference (12 months for Proceedings to be disseminated at your conference) to begin discussion of SPIE publishing the Proceedings. This will ensure sufficient time to advertise your meeting, to provide information to authors regarding manuscript preparation, and to allow for timely publication.