The primary goal for conference publishing is providing attendees with a record of the high-quality papers presented at the event. IEEE Computer Society's Conference Publishing Services (CPS) shares this goal. Our mission is to utilize the CPS staff's 60+ years of aggregated experience to make the whole publishing process as simple and pain-free as possible for conferences while producing the highest quality publication at a reasonable cost.
The following are some of the detailed activities employed by CPS to produce your conference publication:
Provide an online “Author’s Final Paper Formatting and Submission Instructions” Web page (Online Author Kit) for authors of accepted papers
Automatic set-up of free access to IEEE PDF eXpress™, the online source file conversion / PDF validation tool that assists in the creation on IEEE-Xplore™ compliant PDF files for final submission
Receive and check all final camera-ready papers provided by authors
Automatic set-up and collection of IEEE copyright transfers through the IEEE eCF online database
Provide full communication and assistance to authors and organizers throughout the publication process
Obtain all required copyright, Library of Congress/ISSN, ISBN, and other bibliographical registration details
Design and prepare all supporting materials for the publication, including book covers / CD label artwork, title pages, copyright notices, front matter (prefaces, introductions, forewords, etc.), main contents, session headings and author indices
Paginate your publication and affix copyright and DOI notices to papers
Manage all book printing, typography, binding, CD duplication & packaging
Make shipping arrangements for on-time arrival at the conference site
Market and promote to more than 100,000 IEEE Computer Society members worldwide, university and technical libraries, major technical booksellers and wholesalers
Include the publication in the IEEE & IEEE Computer Society online stores
Archive the publication to IEEE Xplore and CSDL digital libraries
Arrange for indexing through INSPEC, EI (Compendex), Thomson ISI, and other indexing services
All costs related to producing and delivering the publication, including any applicable taxes & shipping costs, will be prepaid by CPS and subsequently billed to the conference (terms-NET 30)
Benefits of using CPS
CPS Online™ Publishing Inquiry Form
Speeds the delivery of publishing quotes, including up to six variations in page count, quantity or media type Provides the conference’s “Primary Contact” person with real-time internet access to all project’s publication materials during production, including final submitted papers
CPS Online™ collaborative publishing workspace
The CPS Online™ collaborative publishing workspace gives organizers the opportunity to:
Upload files through any Web browser
Check status and scheduling on projects
Make changes to the Table of Contents and Front Matter
Approve editorial changes and proofs
Communicate with your CPS editor through discussion forums, chat tools, commenting tools and e-mail
Authors can now complete their copyright transfer process online and submit their final papers through our improved online “Author’s Final Paper Formatting and Submission Instructions” Web page (Online Author Kit).
Timely Posting to Digital Library
CPS continues to lead in the timely posting of conference publications to the IEEE Xplore digital library. CPS takes full responsibility for the timely posting of publications into the IEEE digital libraries. Posting timeliness is vital to maximize online usage and professional indexing of conference publications. The CPS track record of timeliness sets the benchmark for posting conference publications into the IEEE digital libraries. CPS also includes paper-specific metadata for the IEEE digital libraries to maximize exposure through online search. This is a unique benefit of publishing through CPS.
Indexing
Conference publications published by the IEEE Computer Society’s Conference Publishing Services (CPS) are submitted for indexing through INSPEC®. Produced by the IET1, INSPEC is the leading English-language bibliographic information service providing access to the world's scientific and technical literature in physics, electrical engineering, electronics, communications, control engineering, computers and computing, and information technology. If interested, you can learn more about INSPEC at http://www.iee.org/publish/inspec/
All CPS conference publications are also submitted for indexing to EI’s Engineering Information Index, Compendex®, (Elsevier http://www.ei.org/), and ISI Thomson’s Scientific and Technical Proceedings®, ISTP®/ISI Proceedings, and Current Contents on Diskette® (ISI Thomson http://www.isinet.com/). IEEE conference publications are not indexed in ISI Thomson’s Science Citation Index (SCI), a journal index, nor are they cited in ISI Thomson’s Journal Citation Report (JCR). ISI Thomson does not currently index CD-ROMs, only print products.
An abstract and index entry for your submission will be included within Elsevier’s Ei Compendex database only if: (1) your submission is available in full-text PDF format (multimedia submissions converted from formats such as Microsoft PowerPoint do not constitute full-text PDF format); and (2) your submission includes an author-submitted abstract. If your submission is available in full-text PDF but does not include an abstract, only bibliographic information will be included in Ei Compendex. The foregoing conditions are subject to change based upon the terms and conditions of IEEE’s agreement with Elsevier. IEEE will make reasonable efforts to ensure that abstracts and index entries will be included in Ei Compendex based upon the guidelines above, but IEEE cannot guarantee that any particular abstract or index entry will be included in Ei Compendex.
IEEE conference publications may also be indexed into specialized indexing services based on their content topic.
All abstract and indexing services are operated by independent companies and the IEEE has no control over their editorial practices and policies.
1 IET is the Institution of Engineering and Technology, a new institution formed by the joining together of two great institutions: the IEE (Institution of Electrical Engineers) and the IIE (The Institution of Incorporated Engineers). This new institution is the inheritor of the INSPEC brand and all products and services.
Marketing
A large part of our publication process includes worldwide distribution through IEEE library subscription plans to an array of technical, academic and corporate libraries. Equally important is marketing your publication to the over 100,000 Computer Society members, customers, major technical booksellers and wholesalers.
An important part of the service CPS provides is making sure your publication is properly registered with the international organizations that allow for more efficient marketing of your publication by CPS, IEEE, booksellers, libraries, universities, wholesalers and distributors. This allows your publication to reach a large, global audience beyond your meeting's attendees. This process starts by assigning your publication a CPS-registered International Standard Book Number (ISBN) that uniquely identifies your publication as a product published internationally. We then register your publication with the United States Library of Congress. We also complete all necessary IEEE publication and product forms. This means completing all the paperwork required by these organizations.
All Conference Publishing Services (CPS) publications are posted online using the author's original files. Generally, all publications will be available for access the first business day following the conference through the Computer Society Digital Library CSDL and IEEE Xplore®. All CPS publications as a requirement are included in IEEE Xplore®.
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