LoL! I was an ACM member for a good while, but eventually realized I *never* used the digital library I was paying them for. And the "Transactions" were such an exercise in buzzword bingo as to be laughable.
My first contact with ACM was a solicitation to join. No qualifications needed. SEG required several years experience and references from members. I wrote a rather scathing commentary about "selling credentials" on the ACM form and put it in the postage paid envelope.
On Wednesday, March 17, 2021, 07:05:35 PM CDT, Sean Turner <
[email protected]> wrote:
Definitely, only reason I'm a member at all is because work pays the dues and it looks good on your CV. And we have full institutional access.
Otherwise, I wouldn't bother. I dropped ACM a long time ago, before graduating. Somehow they manage to be even more expensive than IEEE (while having a set of publications that interests me less).
Sean
On Wed, Mar 17, 2021 at 04:45 PM, Reginald Beardsley wrote:
At the IEEE *member* rate for papers that would make it uneconomic without institutional access.
