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Anyone is eligible to create a personal account in the SPIE Digital Library. Click "Sign In" at upper right, then click "Create an account."

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If your institution subscribes to the SPIE Digital Library, your personal account allows you to log in and gain access to your institution's subscription even when you are away from work or school (for example, from your home computer or mobile device). To do so, simply sign in to your personal account while on a computer within the institution's network (for example, from a desktop computer at work or school, or while connected to the network via VPN). This automatically affiliates your personal account with the institution's subscription for three months. After this, you can again sign in while on the institution's network in order to renew the affiliation.

An error may occur during account creation if you already have an account in SPIE's database. All current and recent SPIE members and primary SPIE Conference authors already have SPIE personal accounts. Your SPIE Digital Library username and password are the same as your SPIE.org username and password.

Additionally, an error may occur if your username or password do not meet the requirements specified on the "Create a SPIE Account" page:

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Click the "Forgot Your Password" link on the sign in page, then follow the password reset instructions.