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I was a student member, but cancelled after I graduated. For $200, I somehow expected that I'd have complete access to their publications, but it turns out tha
by msravi 8y ago
I was a student member, but cancelled after I graduated. For $200, I somehow expected that I'd have complete access to their publications, but it turns out that you don't get that. You've to pay extra for access to their digital library (which you can't get without a membership), and even then, the access is limited - something like 25 articles a month (which don't carry over) for $44/month, with a minimum commitment of 6 months. The only reason to keep their membership is access to their journals (especially those published in the '70s and '80s), and since I already had access via my workplace, I didn't think it worthwhile. You're basically looking at $733/year for limited access to their publications.
Another option is to join a society within IEEE (in addition to membership). This gives you a substantial discount on subscriptions to publications sponsored by that society. However, I found that I needed to join multiple societies to span the publications I was interested in, and it was just not worth it.
- fao_ 8y ago> You're basically looking at $733/year for limited access to their publications. Not to mention, you should be able to get free access via the library system anyway.
- anonymousDan 8y agoI don't know where you are getting your numbers from wrt ACM at least. Last time I checked it was ~£100 without DL access, and £200 for membership + full DL access. I think that is a pretty good deal. It costs money to run a digital library, and you have to remember ACM isn't really comparable to profit driven publishers such as Elsevier etc.
- LeifCarrotson 8y ago> It costs money to run a digital library What does this mean? You're surely not talking about bandwidth and storage costs, those are on the order of pennies.
- 4ndr3vv 8y ago> Do any of you hold IEEE membership? >> I was a student member, but cancelled after I graduated >>>I don't know where you are getting your numbers from wrt ACM at least
- idoescompooters 8y agoStrange. I'm not a member, and at my university we have free access to the IEEE digital library.
- postwait 8y agoMost universities have special access to both IEEE and ACM publications (as well as many others). They pay for this access.