The full text images can be displayed on computers equipped with X-Windows software. The campus has obtained site-licenses for X Software for Macs and PCs, and the General Library has workstations capable of displaying IEEE images. Users will not need any special password to access the IEEE images, but will need to register, answer a few demographic questions, and choose a User Name and User Key the first time they request a display of an IEEE page image. Individual records indicate whether an image is available. Then the entire journal issue may be examined, article by article or page by page.
Researchers can also jump to articles in a different issue or volume of the same journal.
No downloading or mailing of images is planned. Currently, IEEE users must print articles to a networked printer with Postscript capabilities. Future plans include transmitting publications to DLA in other formats which will allow the higher quality images to be available before the print publication is mailed to subscribers.