The University Libraries has recently subscribed to the SPIE Digital Library which gives the WSU community access to more than 300,000 technical papers from SPIE Journals and Conference Proceedings. SPIE is the international society for optics and photonics which was founded in 1955 to advance light-based technologies.

You can access the SPIE materials from the University Libraries database list or through the eJournals tab at the Libraries home page.

The areas covered in the SPIE Digital Library include:
* Astronomy & Astronomical Optics
* Biomedical Optics and Imaging
* Communication and Information Technologies
* Defense and Industrial Sensing
* Electronic Imaging and Processing
* Micro- and Nano- Technologies
* Optics and Electro-Optics