Internet research register

Citation

Ivan Basarab, D. (1999), "Internet research register", Sensor Review, Vol. 19 No. 3. https://doi.org/10.1108/sr.1999.08719caf.001

Internet research register

The Sensor Review Research Register is an Internet-based Register that seeks to be a comprehensive, international database for research work related to sensor technology and development. It is validated and accessible to all those organisations who subscribe to the sponsoring journal Sensor Review; individuals who register research; and members of selected professional associations and institutes.

The Register will help improve the process of scholarly communication by allowing workers to identify the types of research already under way as well as identifying areas where research is needed. It will also help contributors to "stake a claim" to a particular area of research while making sure that they are not duplicating research that is in progress and hopefully it will help in identifying peers for collaborative research projects.

Being Internet based gives such a Research Register many advantages over the comparatively static printed page. I see the Register as a dynamic and changing entity that, because of the technology of the Internet, can be constantly updated and therefore has the advantage over a printed Register of never being out of date.

Because the Research Register is making use of this world-wide technology it will reach a truly international audience. The Register has to incorporate large areas of active research effort to properly reflect sensor research itself. This covers huge areas of work from, for example, the design of new materials that will be used in sensors to new methods of fabricating old materials and from new methods for analysing signals to new applications for old sensors. I hope that this wide range of expertise and experience from the contributors can be seen in the entries to the Research Register and welcome any comments or suggestions that you would like to make regarding the Register. To register your research, please visit http://www.mcb.co.uk/literati/research_registers/

I would also like to think that I myself am bringing a wide range of expertise and experience to the post of Research Register Editor, having worked in the area of instrumentation and measurement in both industry and academia for over 25 years. I have worked on, for example, the design and development of a transcutaneous mass-spectrometer blood-gas probe for foetal scalp application and the high-speed resistance seam welding process with a particular focus on the on-line measurement of seam weld quality. I am presently lecturing at the School of Engineering, Sheffield Hallam University and have been involved in electrical impedance and ultrasonic tomography with a particular interest in dual modality techniques. More recently, I have begun work on the use of neural networks for data fusion. This has interesting applications in areas such as condition monitoring and robotics.

Dr Ivan BasarabInternet Research Register EditorE-mail address: ibasarab@iee.org