For Librarians and Administrators
Access & Support
This page includes resources and tools to help you manage your institution's access to the world's largest collection of optics and photonics research. Use the navigation below to find what you need, or contact our support team for personalized assistance. Not yet a subscriber?
Account Management
Users with administrative rights can access the Institutional Administration dashboard by signing in to the SPIE Digital Library with their personal user account, then navigating to My Account > Institutional Administration. There, administrators can:
- View account and subscription information
- View IP addresses
- Access usage statistics
- Customize the branding (your institution's name, logo, and URL)
- Edit OpenURL settings
- Edit Shibboleth or OpenAthens settings
- Review any access suspensions
To add administrative rights to a user account, or if you have misplaced the username of a user account with administrative rights, please contact our support team.
Our support team can add rights or help locate an existing account.
Archiving
The SPIE Digital Library is archived and preserved in Portico, ensuring long-term access to all published content.
Branding
When a user accesses your institution's subscription to the SPIE Digital Library, your institutional name and logo will appear in an "Access Provided by..." popup at lower right. The popup text is customizable, and the logo image can be linked to your library's website or any URL you choose.
To update your branding, users with administrative rights can sign in and navigate to My Account > Institutional Administration.
COUNTER Reports
SPIE Digital Library usage reports are COUNTER compliant. Users with administrative rights can download usage reports and access their library's COUNTER API (SUSHI credentials) for automated statistical harvesting by signing in and navigating to My Account > Institutional Administration > COUNTER Reports.
Indexing, Discovery, and Search Services
Download our "Indexing, Discovery, and Search Services" document (PDF) for a complete list of services that index or integrate with SPIE Digital Library content.
SPIE supports the Open Discovery Initiative (ODI). Our ODI Content Provider Conformance Statement Checklist details our level of conformance to the ODI Recommended Practice.
MARC Records for eBooks
Help eBook users find exactly what they need in your catalog or discovery service. Below are the downloadable MARC records for SPIE Press eBooks, last updated May 28, 2026.
Complete collection - individual records (544 records)- Complete collection - batch download (1 batch file)
- Titles from 2025
- Titles from 2024
- Titles from 2023
- Titles from 2022
- Titles from 2021
- Titles from 2020
- Titles from 2019
After a new eBook is published, its MARC record is added to both "Complete collection" files and the current year's file. To be notified of new eBooks, create a New eBook Alert in your SPIE Digital Library account.
Records are provided in the MARC8 character set. UTF-8 records are available on request. OCLC also provides MARC records for SPIE eBooks through WorldShare Collection Manager (OCLC collection ID: spie.ebooks).
OpenURL Linking
The SPIE Digital Library supports both outbound and inbound OpenURL linking.
- When outbound OpenURL linking is configured, the References section of a journal article or ebook chapter will include links to your link resolver's result pages for cited references. Outbound links use the reference DOI as the linking key and appear only for references that include a DOI.
- To set up outbound linking, sign in and go to My Account > Institutional Administration. Or email spiedlsupport@spie.org with your link resolver's base URL, link text, and a link button image.
- Inbound OpenURL linking from your link resolver is supported for journal articles, proceedings papers, and ebooks.
- SPIE works directly with link resolver vendors to provide current metadata, as listed in our "Indexing, Discovery, and Search Services" document (PDF).
Promotional Materials
Build subscription awareness with free promotional materials including notebooks, pens, bookmarks, and posters. Email spiedlsales@spie.org to request materials.
The SPIE Digital Library logo is available for download in gif, jpg, and eps formats for use in promotional content.
For highlights to share with your users, visit the About the SPIE Digital Library page.
Remote Access Methods
Local access relies on IP address authentication. Administrators can manage accepted IP addresses by signing in and going to My Account > Institutional Administration. The following options are available for remote users outside your physical network:
Affiliated User Accounts (Device Pairing)
Users can affiliate their personal SPIE account with the institutional subscription for remote access from home or mobile devices. To set this up, users create a personal account or sign in to an existing one while connected to the institution's network. The affiliation lasts three months and can be renewed by signing in again from within the accepted IP range.
EZProxy
The EZProxy database stanza for the SPIE Digital Library is:
Title SPIE Digital Library
URL https://www.spiedigitallibrary.org
HJ www.spiedigitallibrary.org
HJ datacoll.spie.org
HJ login.spie.org
HJ https://oauth.spie.org
DJ spiedigitallibrary.org
DJ spie.org
Google Scholar CASA
SPIE partners with Google Scholar to support off-campus access via CASA (Campus Activated Subscriber Access). CASA records a user's institutional affiliation when they access SPIE Digital Library content through Google Scholar while on campus. After leaving campus, this affiliation enables seamless authentication from the user's device. See Google Scholar's "Off-campus access" help page for details.
Single Sign-On (SAML)
Through the SAML standard, SPIE Digital Library supports single sign-on for two types of organizations:
- Member organizations of an OpenAthens or Shibboleth-based federation.
- Organizations with a SAML-compliant Identity Provider such as Okta, PingFederate, ADFS, or Azure.
To begin the registration process, complete the form below. For specific setup questions, email spiedlsupport@spie.org.
Text and Data Mining
For licensed material (journals, proceedings, and ebooks), SPIE grants researchers text and data mining rights through their institutions. Authorized users may use licensed content for text and data mining for research, educational, or business purposes, and may store and analyze results on a secure network. Users are asked to keep download rates reasonable so as not to impose an undue burden on SPIE's servers.
Contact spiedlsupport@spie.org to raise your institution's IP suspension threshold in support of a text and data mining project.
Title List (KBART)
Download a title list of all SPIE Digital Library publications.
- Last updated: May 5, 2026
- The title list includes four worksheets covering journals, *proceedings series, proceedings volumes, and ebooks.
- **Some SPIE Proceedings volumes are not available online. See the Proceedings Volumes Not Available Online list for details.
Training
Download the SPIE Digital Library User Guide for a walkthrough of the platform's features.
Visit our Help page for FAQs about Content and Features.
SPIE Digital Library offers free web-based training for subscribing institutions, accommodating up to 100 participants. Sessions run 30 to 60 minutes and are interactive and customized to your institution's needs.
A free live recording, interactive, and tailored to your researchers' needs.
Accessibility Conformance Reports
Our SPIE Digital Library Accessibility Statement affirms our commitment to providing an accessible experience for all users, regardless of disability.
European Accessibility Act Statement
Download the European Accessibility Act Statement for information about the platform's conformance to accessibility standards set by the European Commission and approved by the European Parliament.