IEEE Explore provides access to over 570,000 articles from over 12,000 publications, including IEEE and IEE journals, conference proceedings, and IEEE Standards. It has more than 2 million full-text PDF images, including all charts, graphs, diagrams, photographs, and illustrative material. More than 25,000 new pages are added each month, and there is a 12-year backfile archiving IEEE and IEE publications from 1988 to the present. Drexel University faculty and students can access IEEE Explore from the library's website . It is located on the Electronic Resources menu both under Databases by Title and in the database subject grouping for Engineering and Technology.
Remote access is also available.
Searching IEEE is easy. From the main page IEEE Explore you can browse tables of contents, search by author, or initiate a basic or advanced search. IEEE's ability to retrieve journal titles by simply entering keywords gives researchers flexibility in locating those titles difficult to memorize. The Advanced searching feature permits searching by keywords or subjects using Boolean operators. IEEE Explore's flexibility in searching, its ability to access full text articles from journals, conferences and standards and its ease of use all make it one of the most useful electronic resources for engineers.