Benefits and Services Provided by CPS

CPS Online™

CPS Online™ is the Computer Society’s online collaborative conference publishing system, which is a web-based project management tool, and provides real-time online access to the status of each project.

CPS Online™ provides the following features.

• 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 the project’s publication materials during production, including final submitted papers
• Gives conference organizers and authors the opportunity to upload files through any Web browser
• Check scheduling on a project
• Make changes to the Table of Contents and Front Matter
• Approve editorial changes and proofs
• Communicate with the CPS editor through discussion forums, chat tools, commenting tools, and e-mail
• Access to “Author’s Final Paper Formatting and Submission Instructions” Webpage (Online Author Kit) for collection of accepted papers, copyright forms and metadata information
• Access to IEEE PDF eXpress™, the online source file conversion/PDF validation tool that assists in the creation of IEEE-Xplore™ compliant PDF files for final submission

Preprint Assessment ↑ Back to Top 

CPS has trained staff that will take care of any errors on submitted PDF files. Papers submitted through the Online Author Kit are all put through a rigorous Quality Control process so that they are both print and Xplore compliant.

The CSDL and Xplore ↑ Back to Top 

CPS prides itself on the timely posting of conference media to the CSDL and Xplore. Conference organizers and authors do not want to wait months for papers to appear in these digital libraries. CPS guarantees that papers will be posted to the CSDL and Xplore no later than 30 days after the close of the conference.

Required IEEE Paperwork ↑ Back to Top 

CPS editors make sure all of the necessary paperwork is filed and that the conference has all of the necessary information for inclusion in the CSDL, IEEE Xplore, and indexing. CPS obtains:

• All required copyrights
• Library of Congress/ISSN
• ISBN and other bibliographical registration details

All of the author papers in your publication will have a Digital Object Identification Number (DOI), allowing for easy searches and protection against plagiarism.

IEEE No-Show Policy ↑ Back to Top 

CPS understands how important the perception of a conference is to the organizers, authors, and community in which that conference resides. This is why any conference published by CPS has the protection of the IEEE No-show policy. If a presenter does not attend a conference without legitimate reason the conference organizer has the right to pull their paper from final posting to the CSDL, Xplore, and indexing. This gives organizers another tool to protect their conference and to make sure it never picks up the reputation as a paper mill event.

Shipping & Delivery ↑ Back to Top 

All the work that goes into creating a conference publication can be undone by one simple word: Customs. CPS recognizes the importance of staying on top of shipping and works extensively with international shipping representatives to make sure conference media is delivered on time, every time.

Cover Art and CD Design ↑ Back to Top 

CPS has highly skilled graphic artists on staff to make sure your conference publication looks as professional as the work inside. They will work with the editor and conference organizer to give each conference a unique look for all media types. To save conferences money in these economic times, there is no additional charge for 4-color cover art.

Indexing ↑ Back to Top 

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 ↑ Back to Top 

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^®.