Yes, I agree. And I feel as if, having been an IEEE member for many decades, I should be afforded some sort of exception to the normal rules.
While I was forcebly retired, I am still a practitioning engineer. Being cut off from these papers when I finally have the time to work through them seems perverted somehow.
DaveD
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On Mar 17, 2021, at 19:09, Sean Turner <
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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:
No, sharing documents from IEEE, ARRL and other organizations has always been verboten unless the document in question is specifically not copyrighted. And that is not unreasonable, even if it is maddening at times.
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I¡¯d rejoin IEEE and sign up for the AAP journals, but that still only gives limited access to the IEEE digital library.
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For a very well-to-do professional organization which purportedly claims to exist for the advancement of EE technology one would think that they would provide wider access to to the professional literature.
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Oracle used to provide general access, but I don¡¯t work for them anymore.
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DaveD
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