IEEE Early Access articles take advantage of the rapid publishing capabilities offered by digital media. Early Access articles represent new content that is made available online in advance of the final electronic or print versions.
Early Access articles include documents resulting from IEEE’s Rapid Post or Preprint processes. Rapid Post articles have undergone peer review and editorial processing, with the exception of final pagination. Preprint articles have been peer-reviewed but have not undergone editorial processing. Both types of Early Access articles are fully citable from the moment they appear in IEEE Xplore. IEEE makes Early Access articles available from time to time for most journals.
When Early Access articles are available, the publication page displays this indicator:
When you click 
, a table of contents appears, listing the
titles of articles accepted for future publication in the journal or magazine.
From here, you can:
View
the abstract of an article by clicking the 
link. Subscribers view the AbstractPlus.
View multiple pages of results by using the page numbers or Previous and Next links at the bottom of the screen.
Perform a keyword search of the Early Access articles after clicking the Search within contents checkbox below the Global Search box.
Note: Clicking this checkbox disables the type-ahead feature and any preferences set for searching only particular publishers
List
the 10 articles most frequently downloaded for the previous month for
this publication (
).
Email all or selected items in the list of Early Access articles.
Print the list of Early Access articles.
Review the title history, if the publication title has changed over time.
Purchasing articles if you do not have full-text access to them.
Download citations for all or selected Early Access articles.
View
full text of articles by clicking the 
link.
View multimedia for an article by clicking the Multimedia link.
Submit a manuscript for publication to the journal.
Searching within a Publication