Published at October 25th, 2025 Last updated 9 days ago

IEEE Xplore

IEEE Xplore is a research database for discovery and access to journal articles, conference proceedings, technical standards, and related materials on Computer Science, Electrical Engineering and Electronics. It contains material published mainly by the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineering (IEEE).

IEEE Xplore provides web access to more than 5 million documents- including more than 193 peer-reviewed journals, more than 1,700 global conferences, more than 6,200 technical standards, approximately 4,000 ebooks, and over 425 online courses. ^^Approximately 20,000 new documents are added each month.

Note: anyone can search IEEE Xplore and find bibliographic records and abstracts for its contents, while access to full-text documents requires an individual or institutional subscription.

 

Overview

Content type  License / subscription Available for Automated search Integrated with Available Updates
Research output Yes (API Key) No No

 

Set up online source

Go to Administrator > Research outputs > Online sources > IEEE

Setting Description Notes
Enabled Toggles it available for users or not.  

IEEE Xplore API key

 
The API key used to authenticate with IEEE Xplore.  Go to https://developer.ieee.org/member/register in order to register for a key

 

IEEE to Pure type mapping

Table with mapping of types to Pure.

The IEEE field content_type is used to map the publications to Pure publication types.

IEEE content_type
Pure Type
books / ebooks Book/Report
book Book/Report
ebooks Book/Report
conferences Contribution to conference
courses Not currently used
early access Contribution to journal
journals Contribution to journal
magazines Other Contribution
standards Other
 
 

 

IEEE to Pure field mapping

Table with mapping of fields to Pure.

IEEE field Pure field
content_type Publication type
title Title
publication_title

Used as fallback title if there is no value in title.

Used as event title.

If Article, used as journal Title

If Contribution, used as host publication title

abstract Abstract
accessType Open Acess information
authors Authors
affiliation Organisations
conference_dates Event date
conference_location Event location
doi Doi
start_page Pages and number of pages
end_page Pages and number of pages
html_url Link
isbn Isbn
issn Issn
issue Issue number
pdf_url Link or full text
publication_date Publication Date
publication_year Publication Date
ieee_terms Keywords
publisher Publisher
volume Volume
   
abstract_url Not currently used
author_url Not currently used
article_number Not currently used
author_order Not currently used
author_terms Not currently used
citing_paper_count Not currently used
citing_patent_count Not currently used
d-au Not currently used
d-publisher Not currently used
d-pubtype Not currently used
d-year Not currently used
facet Not currently used
full_name Not currently used
index_terms Not currently used
is_number Not currently used
publication_number Not currently used
rank Not currently used
standard_number Not currently used
standard_status Not currently used
totalfound Not currently used
totalsearched Not currently used