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My working practice as a research programmer was to pull from 20-50 papers in preparation. At the IEEE *member* rate for papers that would make it uneconomic without institutional access. Fortunately the Society of Exploration Geophysicists was a lot more enlightened. Membership provided full access without per paper charges. My current solution for IEEE is to drive 80 miles each way to use the UALR library system. I used to be an IEEE member, but I got disgusted and dropped them long before I dropped all the other societies. When my next to last client eliminated their library I found myself spending over $1500/yr for literature access. With 35+ publications it was a nightmare to maintain any sort of order. It breaks my heart to send it all to recycling, but I really have no choice. I'd rather have new books than old journals. The smart researchers such as David Donoho at Stanford, publish an internal report which is then submitted as a paper and put the report up on the Stanford website. Richard Baraniuk was forced to rewrite a Spectrum paper on the single pixel camera just to keep IEEE at bay. Truly disgusting. Dozens of professors were posting it as required reading for their courses and getting harassed by IEEE. Reg On Wednesday, March 17, 2021, 06:09:56 PM CDT, Sean Turner <[email protected]> wrote: Indeed. I would say that it stops being reasonable at all for very old work, such as the reference above. A journal from 1966 cannot be a source of revenue now; they ought to have a cut off age where the work becomes open access. But that would make too much sense! Sean On Wed, Mar 17, 2021 at 04:02 PM, Dave Daniel wrote:
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