From the Editor-in-Chief.

In this day and age, we have an incredible wealth of knowledge available at our fingertips. This is also increasing the rate of new discoveries. The amount of content in our knowledge repositories such as in IEEE Xplore is growing exponentially. While the easy access to knowledge is helping to drive this growth, there are other less wondrous forces that are at play. In fact, the amount of knowledge within Xplore might be growing far less than the content, and IEEE is very concerned that many duplicative papers are in the archives. This may have a detrimental effect on the enthusiasm for subscriptions that IEEE can expect from libraries, and it is libraries that provide the critical financial support of IEEE?s scholarly operations. Furthermore, duplicative content means that the precious time of valuable volunteer editors and reviewers is being wasted. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]