| What is the Digital
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| The SPIE Digital Library, one of the most extensive resources available on optics and photonics,
contains more than 268,000 full-text papers from SPIE Journals and Proceedings published since 1990. It also includes
citations and abstracts for most SPIE papers published since 1990. Approximately 17,000 new papers will be added each
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| Subscriptions to the SPIE Digital Library are available
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| How do I buy
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If the login and password are not in use by another subscriber, you
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| What is the
relationship between the Digital Library and the SPIE Bookstore? |
| The SPIE Digital Library contains more than 70,000 full-text
papers from SPIE Journals and Proceedings published since 1998 in
digital form. The SPIE
Bookstore offers an extensive collection of related publications
and papers in a hardcopy or CD-ROM format for purchase. |