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1 Frequently Asked Questions 1. What types of books does SPIE Press publish? Which books are in the SPIE ebooks collection? How are SPIE ebooks offered to institutions? How are SPIE ebooks priced for 2015? Does purchase of SPIE ebooks include perpetual access? How are SPIE ebooks archived? How do institutions acquire SPIE ebooks? Who should an institution contact about acquiring SPIE ebooks? How can an institution evaluate SPIE ebooks? What are the features of the SPIE ebooks platform? What are SPIE policies for MARC records for SPIE ebooks? May a library that subscribes to or purchases SPIE ebooks share them via Interlibrary Loan? How may an institution acquire single SPIE Press titles as ebooks? How does SPIE offer SPIE Press books as ebooks to persons? What types of books does SPIE Press publish? Founded in 1989, SPIE Press currently publishes four types of books to serve engineers, scientists, and students in the diverse subject matter related to optics and photonics. SPIE Press Monographs are authoritative reference books, textbooks, and handbooks that cover theory, applications, and outlooks on topics of special interest to scientists and engineers. Tutorial Texts are stand-alone tutorials that cover fundamental and emerging topics in optical science and technology, at introductory and intermediate levels, making them valuable to students and researchers entering new fields of inquiry. Field Guides present definitions, equations, illustrations, examples, design considerations, methods, and tips that students and practicing engineers and scientists need in a concise format. SPIE Spotlights are digital books with concise, focused material (20 40 pages long). They get straight to the point or serve a specific need.

2 2. Which books are in the SPIE ebooks collection? SPIE ebooks on the SPIE Digital Library began 2014 with 195 titles 1 published from 1989 to SPIE Press will publish at least 25 new books annually as of (See the list of current books later in this section.) For the original SPIE ebooks program, only existing books with lasting technical value were chosen. For example, optical design as taught by Rudolf Kingslake is still relevant, as are SPIE books on radiometry, infrared system design, and thin films. Included in SPIE ebooks are titles from four series Press Monographs, Tutorial Texts, Field Guides, and Spotlights. Three tables about SPIE ebooks follow. In each table the number of chapters for each book includes any appendices. SPIE Field Guides have many entries of one to two pages grouped into sections; both the numbers of entries and sections are provided. The first tables list the titles published in 2014 and The third table lists all of the titles included in SPIE ebooks; details are available at spie.org. Titles Published in 2014 Title Series Volume # of Chapters # of Pages Fiber Optic Sensors: Fundamentals and Applications PM Field Guide to Digital Micro-Optics FG / Field Guide to Displacement Measuring Interferometry FG / Field Guide to Fiber Optic Sensors FG / Field Guide to Holography FG31 59 / Fundamentals of Dispersive Optical Spectroscopy Systems PM Fundamentals of Geometrical Optics PM Interferometry for Precision Measurement TT Optical Glass PM Optical Specification, Fabrication, and Testing PM Robust Speckle Metrology Techniques for Stress Analysis and NDT PM Solid State Lasers: Tunable Sources and Passive Q-Switching Elements PM State of the Art Infrared Detector Technology PM Strength Properties of Glass and Ceramics PM Translational Research in Biophotonics: Four National Cancer Institute Case Studies PM Fundamentals of Photonics is freely available in SPIE ebooks as well as on SPIE.ORG. 2 P a g e

3 Titles Published in 2015 Title Series Volume # of Chapters # of Pages Applications of Dispersive Optical Spectroscopy PM Carbon Nanoparticles in Photoacoustic Imaging SL Computed Tomography: Principles, Design, Artifacts, and Recent Advances, 3 rd Ed PM Digital Converters for Image Sensors TT Femtosecond-Laser-Assisted LASIK Eye Surgery and Imaging SL Fiber Optic Sensors: Fundamentals and Applications, 4 th Ed PM Field Guide to Astronomical Instrumentation FG32 156/ Field Guide to Lidar FG36 168/ Field Guide to Linear Systems in Optics FG / How to Set Up a Laser Lab SL Image Resolution: Deconstructing Hollywood s Zoom and Enhance SL Introduction to Liquid Crystals of Optical Design and Engineering TT Introduction to Metrology Application in IC Manufacturing TT New Horizons in Nanoscience and Engineering PM Optical Sensing: Microstructured Fibers, Fiber Micromachining, and Functional Coating SL Optics for Technicians PM Optimization Techniques for Diffraction Spectrometers SL Tissue Optics, Third Edition PM All Titles in SPIE ebooks Series # of # of Pub Title Volume Chapters Pages Year 3D Video Technologies: An Overview of Research Trends PM Aberration Theory Made Simple TT Aberration Theory Made Simple, 2 nd Ed TT Adaptive Beaming and Imaging in the Turbulent Atmosphere PM Advanced Optics Using Aspherical Elements PM Advanced Processes for 193-nm Immersion Lithography PM Advances in Information Optics and Photonics PM Alien Vision: Exploring the Electromagnetic Spectrum with Imaging Technology PM Alien Vision: Exploring the Electromagnetic Spectrum with Imaging Technology, 2 nd Ed PM Analysis of Sampled Imaging Systems TT Analysis and Evaluation of Sampled Imaging Systems TT Applications of Dispersive Optical Spectroscopy PM Applied Prismatic and Reflective Optics PM Art of Radiometry, The PM Artificial Neural Networks: An Introduction TT Basic Electro-Optics for Electrical Engineers TT Basic Optics for the Astronomical Sciences PM P a g e

4 Series # of # of Pub Title Volume Chapters Pages Year Basics of Code Division Multiple Access (CDMA) TT Basics of Spectroscopy, The TT Bioluminescence and Fluorescence for In Vivo Imaging TT Carbon Nanoparticles in Photoacoustic Imaging SL Chemical Vapor Deposited Zinc Sulfide PM Chemistry and Lithography PM Coherent Fields and Images in Remote Sensing PM Coherent-Mode Representations in Optics PM Color Image Processing with Biomedical Applications PM Color Vision and Colorimetry: Theory and Applications, 2nd Ed PM Commercialization Basics for the Photonics Industry PM Computational Color Technology PM Computational Fourier Optics: A MATLAB Tutorial TT Computed Tomography: Principals, Design, Artifacts, and Recent Advances, 2nd Ed PM Computed Tomography: Principles, Design, Artifacts, and Recent Advances, 3 rd Ed PM Computer-Aided Cancer Detection and Diagnosis: Recent Advances PM Confocal Microscopy and Multiphoton Excitation Microscopy PM Contrast Sensitivity of the Human Eye and Its Effects on Image Quality PM Demystifying Electromagnetic Equations: A Complete Explanation of EM Unit Systems and Equation Transformations PM Design of Plastic Optical Systems, The TT Diagnostic and Therapeutic Applications of Breast Imaging PM Diffractive Optics: Design, Fabrication, and Test TT Digital and Analog Fiber Optic Communications for CATV and FTTx Applications PM , Digital Converters for Image Sensors TT Digital Image Compression Techniques TT Direct Detection LADAR Systems TT Electroactive Polymer (EAP) Actuators as Artificial Muscles: Reality, Potential, and Challenges, 2 nd Ed PM Electromagnetic Wave Propagation in Turbulence: Evaluation and Application of Mellin Transforms, 2 nd Ed PM Electro-Optical System Analysis and Design: A Radiometry Perspective PM Enhanced Optical Filter Design PM Engineering a High-Tech Business: Entrepreneurial Experiences and Insights PM Engineering Introduction to Biotechnology, An TT EUV Lithography PM EUV Sources for Lithography PM , Femtosecond-Laser-Assisted LASIK Eye Surgery and Imaging SL Fiber Optic Sensors: Fundamentals and Applications, 4 th Ed PM Field Guide to Adaptive Optics FG03 51 / P a g e

5 Title Series Volume # of Chapters # of Pages Pub Year Field Guide to Adaptive Optics, 2 nd Ed FG24 96 / Field Guide to Astronomical Instrumentation FG32 19/ Field Guide to Atmospheric Optics FG02 71 / Field Guide to Binoculars and Scopes FG / Field Guide to Digital Micro-Optics FG / Field Guide to Diffractive Optics FG / Field Guide to Displacement Measuring Interferometry FG / Field Guide to Fiber Optic Sensors FG / Field Guide to Geometrical Optics FG01 95 / Field Guide to Holography FG31 59 / Field Guide to Illumination FG / Field Guide to Image Processing FG25 64 / Field Guide to Infrared Systems FG09 78 / Field Guide to Infrared Systems, Detectors, and FPAs, 2 nd Ed FG / Field Guide to Interferometric Optical Testing FG10 82 / Field Guide to Laser Pulse Generation FG14 73 / Field Guide to Lasers FG / Field Guide to Lens Design FG / Field Guide to Lidar FG36 168/ Field Guide to Linear Systems in Optics FG / Field Guide to Microscopy FG / Field Guide to Nonlinear Optics FG29 69 / Field Guide to Optical Fabrication FG / Field Guide to Optical Fiber Technology FG16 74 / Field Guide to Nonlinear Optics FG29 69 / Field Guide to Optical Lithography FG06 82 / Field Guide to Optical Thin Films FG07 75 / Field Guide to Optomechanical Design and Analysis FG / Field Guide to Physical Optics FG17 94 / Field Guide to Polarization FG05 76 / Field Guide to Probability, Random Processes, and Random Data Analysis FG22 80 / Field Guide to Radiometry FG23 99 / Field Guide to Spectroscopy FG08 96 / Field Guide to Special Functions for Engineers FG18 99 / Field Guide to Terahertz Sources, Detectors, and Optics FG28 88 / Field Guide to Visual and Ophthalmic Optics FG04 82 / Field Mathematics for Electromagnetics, Photonics, and Materials Science: A Guide for the Scientist and Engineer, 4 th Printing TT Formation of a Digital Image: The Imaging Chain Simplified PM Fourier-Transform Spectroscopy Instrumentation Engineering TT Fractal and Wavelet Image Compression Techniques TT P a g e

6 Title Series # of # of Pub Volume Chapters Pages Year Fundamental Optical Design PM Fundamentals of Antennas: Concepts and Applications TT Fundamentals of Contamination Control TT Fundamentals of Dispersive Optical Spectroscopy Systems PM Fundamentals of Electronic Image Processing PM Fundamentals of Geometrical Optics PM Fundamentals of Infrared Detector Materials TT Fundamentals of Photonics TT Fundamentals of Polarimetric Remote Sensing TT Hadamard Transforms PM Handbook of Medical Imaging, Vol. 1. Physics and Psychophysics PM Handbook of Medical Imaging, Vol. 2. Medical Image Processing and Analysis PM , Handbook of Medical Imaging, Vol. 3. Display and PACS PM Handbook of Nanotechnology, The. Nanometer Structures: Theory, Modeling, and Simulation PM Hands-on Morphological Image Processing TT High Dynamic Range Imaging: Sensors and Architectures PM High-Operating-Temperature Infrared Photodetectors PM How to Set Up a Laser Lab SL Hyperspectral Remote Sensing PM Image Acquisition and Preprocessing for Machine Vision Systems PM Image Resolution: Deconstructing Hollywood s Zoom and Enhance SL Infrared Design Examples TT Infrared Fibers and Their Applications PM Infrared Optics and Zoom Lenses, 2 nd Ed TT Integral Transforms for Engineers PM Integrated Optomechanical Analysis TT Integrated Optomechanical Analysis, 2 nd Ed PM Interferometry for Precision Measurement TT Intermediate Optical Design PM Introduction to Adaptive Optics TT Introduction to Complex Mediums for Optics and Electromagnetics PM Introduction to Confocal Fluorescence Microscopy, 2 nd Ed TT Introduction to Image Stabilization TT Introduction to Imaging Spectrometers TT Introduction to Infrared System Design TT Introduction to Liquid Crystals of Optical Design and Engineering TT Introduction to Metrology Application in IC Manufacturing TT Introduction to Optical Testing TT Introduction to Radiometry TT Introduction to Semiconductor Manufacturing Technology, 2 nd Ed PM P a g e

7 Title Series # of # of Pub Volume Chapters Pages Year Introduction to Wavefront Sensors TT Laser Beam Propagation through Random Media, 2 nd Ed PM Laser Beam Scintillation with Applications PM Laser Beam Quality Metrics TT Laser Safety in the Lab PM Light Propagation through Biological Tissue and Other Diffusive Media: Theory, Solutions, and Software PM Lithography Process Control TT Local Approximation Techniques in Signal and Image Processing PM Logic-based Nonlinear Image Processing TT Materials for Infrared Windows and Domes: Properties and Performance PM Mathematical Techniques for Engineers and Scientists PM Matrix Methods for Optical Layout TT Maxwell s Equations of Electrodynamics: An Explanation PM Metrics for High-Quality Specular Surfaces TT Military Displays: Technology and Applications TT Modeling the Imaging Chain of Digital Cameras TT Modeling the Optical and Visual Performance of the Human Eye PM Modulation Transfer Function in Optical and Electro-Optical Systems TT Mounting Optics in Optical Instruments, 2 nd Ed PM Multimodality Breast Imaging: Diagnosis and Treatment PM Nanotechnology: A Crash Course TT New Horizons in Nanoscience and Engineering PM New Physical Optics Notebook: Tutorials in Fourier Optics, The PM Numerical Simulation of Optical Wave Propagation with Examples in MATLAB PM Ocean Sensing and Monitoring TT Optical Clearing of Tissues and Blood PM Optical Coating Technology PM Optical Communication Receiver Design TT Optical Correlation Techniques and Applications PM Optical Design: Applying the Fundamentals TT Optical Design for Biomedical Imaging PM Optical Design for Visual Systems TT Optical Design Fundamentals for Infrared Systems, 2 nd Ed TT Optical Design of Microscopes TT Optical Engineering Fundamentals, 2 nd Ed TT Optical Glass PM Optical Imaging and Aberrations, Part I Ray Geometrical Optics PM Optical Imaging and Aberrations, Part II Wave Diffraction Optics PM Optical Imaging and Aberrations, Part II Wave Diffraction Optics, 2 nd Ed PM Optical Imaging and Aberrations, Part III Wavefront Analysis PM P a g e

8 Series # of # of Pub Title Volume Chapters Pages Year Optical Imaging in Projection Microlithography TT Optical Lithography: Here Is Why PM Optical Satellite Data Compression and Implementation PM Optical Satellite Signal Processing and Enhancement PM Optical Scattering: Measurement and Analysis, 2 nd Ed PM Optical Scattering: Measurement and Analysis, 3 rd Ed PM Optical Sensing: Microstructured Fibers, Fiber Micromachining, and Functional Coating SL Optical Specification, Fabrication, and Testing PM Optical Systems and Processes PM Optical Thin Films: User Handbook PM Optical Wavefront Analysis PM Optics in Photography PM Optics for Technicians PM Optimization Techniques for Diffraction Spectrometers SL Optoelectronics of Solar Cells PM Photon Transfer PM Physics and Engineering of Solid State Lasers, The TT Polarization of Light with Applications in Optical Fibers TT Polymer Photovoltaics: A Practical Approach PM Practical Applications of Infrared Thermal Sensing and Imaging Equipment, 3 rd Ed TT Principles of Lithography, 2 nd Ed PM Principles of Lithography, 3 rd Ed PM Problems and Answers in Wave Optics PM Pyroelectric Materials: Detectors, Particle Accelerators, and Energy Harvesters PM Radiation Thermometry: Fundamentals and Applications in the Petrochemical Industry TT Random Processes for Image and Signal Processing PM Recent Advances in Breast Imaging, Mammography, and Computer-Aided Diagnosis of Breast Cancer PM , Remote Sensing from Air and Space PM Resolution Enhancement Techniques in Optical Lithography TT Robust Speckle Metrology Techniques for Stress Analysis and NDT PM Rotating Mirror Streak and Framing Cameras PM Scientific Charge-Coupled Devices PM Sculptured Thin Films: Nanoengineered Morphology and Optics PM Sensor and Data Fusion: A Tool for Information Assessment and Decision Making PM Sensor and Data Fusion: A Tool for Information Assessment and Decision Making, 2 nd Ed PM Signal and Image Restoration: Information Theoretic Approaches PM Soft X-Ray Optics PM Solid State Lasers: Tunable Sources and Passive Q-Switching Elements PM Special Functions of Mathematics for Engineers, 2 nd Ed PM P a g e

9 Title Series # of # of Pub Volume Chapters Pages Year Spectral Computed Tomography PM State of the Art Infrared Detector Technology PM Stray Light Analysis and Control PM Strength Properties of Glass and Ceramics PM Thermal Infrared Characterization of Ground Targets and Backgrounds, 2 nd Ed TT The Proper Care of Optics: Cleaning, Handling, Storage, and Shipping PM The Wonder of Nanotechnology: Quantum Optoelectronic PM , Thin-Film Design: Modulated Thickness and Other Stopband Design Methods TT Tissue Optics: Light Scattering Methods and Instruments for Medical Diagnosis, 3 rd Ed PM Translational Research in Biophotonics: Four National Cancer Institute Case Studies PM Tutorials in Complex Photonic Media PM Uncooled Thermal Imaging Arrays, Systems, and Applications TT Value Metrics for Better Lighting PM Wavefront Optics for Vision Correction PM Windowed Fringe Pattern Analysis PM How are SPIE ebooks offered to institutions? SPIE ebooks are a component of the SPIE Digital Library, which institutions may choose to acquire. SPIE ebooks have the same cross-searchability and depth of features as SPIE Proceedings and Journal content as well as book-specific features. SPIE ebooks are offered as a single growing collection of books (see Q. 2). As of 2015, at least 25 newly published books or editions (including SPIE Spotlights) will be added each year. Institutions have two options for acquiring the SPIE ebooks collection in any year: Subscribe to the comprehensive collection. A subscribing institution has access to all of the titles in SPIE ebooks in each year in which it subscribes and receives perpetual access to the titles published in each year of subscription. (See Q. 6 for details on perpetual access.) Purchase the comprehensive collection in a year and have perpetual access to all of the books included through the year before the purchase and the books published during that year. In a subsequent year the institution may purchase the collection published in that year as well as having access to all of the titles purchased earlier. 4. How are SPIE ebooks priced for 2015? The pricing for the SPIE ebooks collection for 2015 is detailed below (see Q. 3 for options for acquiring the collection). Most academic institutions are considered single sites in this pricing. 9 P a g e

10 Subscription to SPIE ebooks Collection: The 2015 price for an institutional subscription is $1,765 for a single site and a maximum of $5,295 for a multi-site institution of any type (three times the single-site price). For corporations and government agencies with multiple sites, divisions, and/or facilities, additional charges may apply. Purchase of SPIE ebooks Collection: Institutions may purchase the entire collection. (See Q. 6 for details on perpetual access.) Single-Site Institution A single-site institution that purchased the collection before 2015 will pay $1,765 for the books published in 2015 (at least 25 new titles or editions). This is the price a subscriber pays for 2015 access to the SPIE ebooks collection for a single site. An institution with a single site that is purchasing SPIE ebooks for the first time will pay $13,680 for the entire collection of books published from 1989 to Multi-Site Institution A multi-site institution of any type that purchased the collection before 2015 (books published from 1989 to 2014) will pay $3,530 for the books published in A multi-site institution of any type will pay $27,360 to purchase the entire collection of books published from 1989 to SPIE ebooks Access on the SPIE Digital Library for Lapsed Purchasers An institution that purchased SPIE ebooks and ceases acquiring annual collections pays an annual $300 platform fee (with a CPI inflation factor) for continuing SPIE Digital Library platform access to its SPIE ebooks unless it still subscribes to the SPIE Journals and Proceedings collection on the SPIE Digital Library. In any year that the institution purchases SPIE ebooks or subscribes to the SPIE Digital Library or SPIE ebooks, this platform fee is waived. 5. Does purchase of SPIE ebooks include perpetual access? SPIE ebooks have two forms of post-cancellation perpetual access for the books published in each year in which an institution subscribed or for all books purchased under the one-time purchase model: Institutions which purchased or subscribed to SPIE ebooks will receive digital files of the books published in the purchase and subscription years on a medium such as a DVD when the purchase or subscription lapses. These files may be loaded on a secure local server and used by the institution s Authorized Users in the same manner as they were used on the SPIE Digital Library. The SPIE Digital Library functionality will not accompany these files. Post-cancellation access is available on Portico to institutions that subscribe to Portico. This access will cover the books published in the years of subscription or the years covered by a purchase. 10 P a g e

11 In addition an institution that purchased the SPIE ebooks (rather than subscribing to them) may have perpetual access on the SPIE Digital Library platform for an annual fee of $300 (plus a CPI index). In any year in which the institution again purchases SPIE ebooks or subscribes to the SPIE Digital Library or SPIE ebooks, this fee will be waived. 6. How are SPIE ebooks archived? SPIE ebooks, like the Proceedings of SPIE and SPIE journals, are archived in Portico and included in the Portico program to make the publications available if SPIE should no longer provide access. SPIE ebooks are also in the Portico post-cancellation perpetual access program. SPIE ebooks is also in CLOCKSS. 7. How do institutions acquire SPIE ebooks? The SPIE Digital Library Sales team, including the agents who represent the SPIE Digital Library around the world, work with each institution to initiate subscriptions or one-time purchases of SPIE ebooks, in addition to or independent of the core SPIE Digital Library. 8. Who should an institution contact about acquiring SPIE ebooks? An institution may direct an inquiry about subscribing to or purchasing SPIE ebooks to their SPIE Digital Library account representative or to the following individuals: U.S./Canada William Goodman: [email protected] International Marybeth Manning: [email protected] General Inquiries [email protected] 9. How can an institution evaluate SPIE ebooks? An institution may evaluate SPIE ebooks for six weeks via institution-wide access or via a user name and password that librarians and researchers may use. Please request evaluation access from your SPIE Digital Library account representative or your subscription agent. SPIE ebooks, like the SPIE Digital Library overall, provides searching and browsing access for all researchers. Only the downloading of full-text chapters requires licensed access. In order to demonstrate the full functionality of SPIE ebooks, all chapters in Fundamentals of Physics (as well as the front matter and introductory material for each book) may be downloaded without a license. 10. What are the features of the SPIE ebooks platform? SPIE ebooks are published on the SPIE Digital Library platform and have its features and additional bookspecific features. Features that are significant to librarians involvement with SPIE ebooks include: 11 P a g e

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