SPIE eBooks brings 159 valuable SPIE Press titles - monographs and reference works, field guides, and tutorial texts - to researchers' desktops on the same user-friendly SPIE Digital Library platform as SPIE Proceedings and SPIE Journals. At least 15 new titles and editions will be added to this collection each year.
Every research and teaching institution that has a significant involvement in optics and photonics technologies should provide SPIE eBooks to its community.
Features of SPIE eBooks include:
* At least 15 new SPIE Press books and editions published first as SPIE
eBooks each year
* Unlimited simultaneous use of eBooks by individuals affiliated with
subscribing organizations
* Content provided as page images (PDFs) at the chapter level
* Stable links to facilitate use in e-reserves and courseware systems
* Chapter-level downloading and printing
* No digital rights management
* MARC records available from SPIE (free) and as an OCLC set
* Integrated searching with SPIE Proceedings and SPIE Journals
* Open access to all book front matter and back matter
* Chapters available for purchase by individuals
* Interlibrary Loan allowed
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* 2012 price of $10,625 for new purchases for all content
* 2012 price of new content for continuing access priced at $1,100 for 2011
purchasers of full collection
* Post-cancellation perpetual access to purchased content on SPIE
Digital Library platform for modest annual platform fee. DVD of
PDF files and/or Portico access also available
Explore the full functionality of SPIE eBooks with the following chapters that may be accessed without purchase:
* Advanced Optics Using Aspherical Elements, Chapters 6 & 7
* Field Guide to Optical Lithography,
Entries 14, 16, 20, 31, 32, 77, 78, 79, 80
* Fundamentals of Photonics (Full book is open access)
* Introduction to Imaging Spectrometers, Chapters 9 & 13
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