What Is IEEE Press?

IEEE Press is the book publishing unit of the IEEE, responsible for producing technical monographs, textbooks, reference handbooks, and edited volumes in electrical engineering, computer science, and adjacent technical disciplines. Founded to extend IEEE's publishing mission beyond its periodical literature, IEEE Press brings together expert authors from academia, industry, and research institutions to produce book-length treatments of topics that cannot be adequately addressed within the page constraints of a journal or conference paper. Its books are recognized as authoritative references across the engineering and computing communities and are adopted in graduate programs and professional settings worldwide.

IEEE Press operates in partnership with John Wiley and Sons, an arrangement that has been in place since 2001 and which combines IEEE's editorial authority and technical community with Wiley's distribution infrastructure and publishing operations. Under this arrangement, books are published under the Wiley-IEEE Press imprint, distributed globally through Wiley's systems, and made available through both the Wiley-IEEE Press catalog and IEEE Xplore's eBook holdings. IEEE members receive a 35% discount on purchases, and hundreds of titles are accessible through the IEEE Press eBooks Classics program included with IEEE digital library access.

Editorial Program and Series

The IEEE Press catalog encompasses more than 900 titles across seventeen specialized book series, adding approximately fifty new titles each year. Series span areas including biomedical engineering, signal processing, wireless communications, power systems, computer architecture, and photonics, among others. Each series is governed by an editorial advisory board composed of recognized experts who review proposals and manuscripts, ensuring that titles meet the technical standards expected by the professional and academic readers IEEE Press serves. The IEEE Author Center's book publishing resources describe the submission process, series structures, and review procedures that authors encounter when proposing a new title.

Relationship to IEEE Publishing

IEEE Press is one component of a larger IEEE publishing enterprise that includes IEEE Xplore, a portfolio of more than 200 peer-reviewed journals and transactions, and conference proceedings covering thousands of annual events. While journals and transactions handle rapid dissemination of primary research, IEEE Press addresses the need for book-length synthesis, tutorial treatments, and reference works that integrate material across a field or sub-field. This complementary role positions IEEE Press publications as the resources practitioners consult when they need a systematic treatment of a topic rather than a specific research result. The 2024 extension of the Wiley and IEEE publishing partnership confirmed the continued commitment to this model.

Author and Audience Focus

Authors who publish with IEEE Press are typically researchers, engineers, or educators with demonstrated expertise in their subject area. The Press targets works that will serve as primary references for graduate students, practicing engineers, and researchers entering a subfield. Books are expected to be technically rigorous, up to date, and accessible to readers with the appropriate background preparation in engineering or applied science. Proposals are evaluated for technical quality, market need within the engineering community, and fit with the existing series portfolio.

Applications

IEEE Press publications support work across:

• Graduate and advanced undergraduate education in engineering and computer science
• Professional development and self-directed technical learning for practicing engineers
• Research onboarding for graduate students entering new technical subfields
• Standards-adjacent reference documentation for engineering practice
• Cross-disciplinary integration of knowledge in emerging technical areas