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IEEE Xplore Has Grown Over 15 Years Three Major Dimensions
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FIgURE 12. Principle metrics for IEEE Xplore-then (2000) and now (2015).

FIgURE 13. A chance to relax and network during a break between sessions.

It is interesting as a historic perspective to see how storage and management
of archival research literature has
evolved in such a short time. Consider
that, in 1998, when IEEE Xplore was
originally conceived, the IEEE had a
mere 164 subscribers to the online
archive, IEL, which was made available
via CD-ROM. Given the state of network connectivity at that time and the
reality that most journals were accessed
in paper form by researchers, it was a
very bold and experimental project for
the IEEE to launch in May 2000 with
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only 100 periodicals and 1,000 IEEE
standards initially available.
Since that time, IEEE Xplore has
grown very significantly in three major
dimensions (and a few minor ones). As
Figure 12 shows, IEEE Xplore has
grown significantly by more than an
order of magnitude in terms of the
number of customers/licensees, growing from 350 up to more than 6,000; in
terms of clicks and downloads up from
6.6 million PDF documents retrieved
in 2000 to more than 100 million documents in 2015; and, finally, in terms of

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papers and conference proceedings, the
number of manuscripts is up from 0.53
million in 2000 to more than 3.6 million documents in 2015. Across all
three metrics, we can say that IEEE
Xplore has grown by three orders of
magnitude, or more than 1,000-fold
since its introduction only 15 short
years ago.
IEEE Xplore has not just grown in
size and popularity, it has also
become a much more powerful and
sophisticated tool for research. Today,
each article makes a wide range of
metrics and impact data available to
its readers. A detailed list of citing
archival research papers and patents
is available together with details of
web accesses and downloads. The
data not only allows the reader to
judge if an article is widely read and
well-cited, but they also allow the
reader to track similar and associated
research activities.
IEEE Xplore has taught the publications community a number of valuable
lessons over its short but timely lifecycle. First, innovative projects that start
out with a small revenue stream can
quickly grow and become far more significant than was initially imagined.



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