Filing Documents in the File Cabinet

If you subscribe to the IEEE Member Digital Library, you can file and access up to 25 documents each month that are not part of your online subscriptions. The documents you can file must be articles in IEEE journals, magazines, transactions, and letters, or conference papers.

Institutions may subscribe to the IEEE Enterprise or other file cabinets, with greater capacities. Institutional users may be able to file standards as well as articles in IEEE journals, magazines, transactions, and letters, or conference papers. For more details on subscription packages, go to the Digital Subscription site.

To file a document in the File Cabinet:

In the search results list, click to access full text for the document. In the abstract page, click .

You receive a message asking if you want to file the document, similar to this example:

In the Account Information section, you can see the number of Documents Filed and Documents Remaining. Documents Filed indicates how many documents are already filed in your File Cabinet, and Documents Remaining indicates the number of documents remaining in your subscription.

Click to file the document in your File Cabinet. The full text PDF of the article will automatically open.

Note: You cannot undo the action of storing an article in the File Cabinet. However, if you download content to your File Cabinet that should have been free (for example, ancillary material such as letters to the editor, names of editorial board members, and calls for papers), complete the Technical Support Form or call the IEEE Contact Center.

If you see the message, "The document you have selected was previously downloaded to your File Cabinet," you can view the document by finding it in the File Cabinet and then clicking below the document citation.

For more information:

User Guide: Search and Save with Your File Cabinet