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While we are on the topic, why are we supporting IEEE? They have so many valuable as well as historical papers behind their paywall. I'm IEEE member and want to

While we are on the topic, why are we supporting IEEE? They have so many valuable as well as historical papers behind their paywall. I'm IEEE member and want to find out what can I do about this.

akvadrako 8y ago
Why are you an IEEE member? Can't you just be not.
- gowld 8y ago
  That doesn't solve the problem of getting open access to IEEE published papers.
  - akvadrako 8y ago
    They have DOI numbers, don't they? So you can just use sci-hub.
dboreham 8y ago
Hmm...hadn't thought about this but...same and same.
zwieback 8y ago
IEEE to me is a different case. They do more than publish and IEEE, along with SPIE, although expensive still carries weight for me. I can assume the content is reasonably high quality and well reviewed. In general, though, for-profit publishing will hopefully go away soon. As an engineer I need quality scientific publications without the distorted politics behind it. I could come up with any number of ways to improve on the current situation.
drpgq 8y ago
I find it irritating as an IEEE member that you don't get access to everything with a membership.
mkohler 8y ago
As far back as 2011, Matt Blaze was pushing for changes to the copyright policies of IEEE and ACM. http://www.mattblaze.org/blog/copywrongs http://www.mattblaze.org/blog/copywrongs