SigPort: A paper repository for signal processing [President's Message]

The author announces the creation of the Signal Processing Repository (SigPort), an online repository of manuscripts, reports, technical white papers, theses, and supporting materials. Created and supported by the IEEE Signal Processing Society (SPS), SigPort collects technical material of interest to the broad signal and information processing community, with categories covering each of the Society's technical committees. Much like arXiv, SigPort hosts material to help individuals obtain early and broad exposure to their work. SigPort provides a time stamp for each uploaded document; a unique URL is assigned to the document, designating it as part of the IEEE SPS SigPort as well as for easy referencing. Also similar to arXiv, SigPort papers are not peer reviewed. Authors retain all the rights to their documents and can submit them later to journals, conferences, books, etc., since submissions to the SigPort repository are not as restricted as formal publications. We expect a majority of the e-prints to be submitted to one of the Society's journals for publication, but some works may remain purely as eprints and will never be published in a peer-reviewed journal. SigPort documents can be accessed for free at http://www.sigport.org.