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SPIE eBooks – A New Tool to Support Your Work in Optics and Photonics

Posted: February 2nd, 2010

The library has recently subscribed to SPIE eBooks on the SPIE Digital Library and this valuable resource is now available to you.

SPIE eBooks includes 120 significant titles from SPIE Press, including Field Guides, monographs and reference books, and Tutorial Texts in the field of optics and photonics, an area which encompasses multiple disciplines. Fifteen to twenty new titles and editions will be added to SPIE eBooks each year; these will be in SPIE eBooks before they are in paper formats.

SPIE is one of the world’s foremost non-profit societies in the field of light research, publishing more than 17,000 new articles and conference proceedings each year as well as 15 to 20 books.

The areas covered in the SPIE Digital Library and SPIE eBooks include:

  • Astronomy & Astronomical Optics
  • Biomedical Optics and Imaging
  • Communication and Information Technologies
  • Defense and Industrial Sensing
  • Electronic Imaging and Processing
  • Micro- and Nano- Technologies
  • Optics and Electro-Optics