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I totally disagree if you get a membership which is affordable at $99 per year you get access to lots of good learning material. That includes computer books fr
by acd 7y ago
I totally disagree if you get a membership which is affordable at $99 per year you get access to lots of good learning material. That includes computer books from O'reilly and courses from Skillsoft.
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- kick 7y agoThat doesn't give you access to the Digital Library, which is the part of this that's relevant to the article, and it doesn't change the other arguments given.
- shinryuu 7y agoStill, if you compare getting O'Reilly membership by itself it would be cheaper to get the ACM membership
- pfranz 7y agoMy public library offers O'Reilly digital access. Unfortunately, it was some limited subset of what O'Reilly's own subscription service offers. How does ACM compare?
- HillRat 7y agoEven as an ACM member with multiple subgroup memberships and subscriptions I can’t figure out what I have access to and what I don’t. Far too complex an access model for what they are.
- metaphor 7y agoWho are you kidding? For the same annual cost of IEEE membership which doesn't provide shit for access to papers, ACM opens up its entire Digital Library!
- qpiox 7y agoStudent membership allows access to nearly all DL resources. Professional membership does not, and you have to pay extra for all the other costs. This year I paid around $250 for the membership to all the group I was interested into. This is 1/2 of my monthly salary that I get from my government. My government or university does not pay for this, they do not even pay for library access, I do it myself. Plus I write peer reviews, for free.