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I am in math rather than CS/EE. I am not precisely sure, and indeed Elsevier goes to some effort to make their pricing complicated, but I am pretty sure it runs

I am in math rather than CS/EE. I am not precisely sure, and indeed Elsevier goes to some effort to make their pricing complicated, but I am pretty sure it runs well into the thousands. I am a professor at a reasonably good state university, having just come from Stanford. At Stanford they subscribed to everything, and here our department picks and chooses so that I constantly run into paywalls despite a university subscription. I don't know how much it would be to upgrade to Stanford-level access, but if it were $200 a professor I assume they'd do it. (Certainly I'd pay $200 from my salary for that.) I'm guessing high four or low five figures per prof in the department. I'm guessing ACM/IEEE are nonprofits? Kudos to them for making their prices reasonable. There are some professional organizations in math (e.g. the AMS) that do something similar. But unfortunately a lot of our journals are published by for-profit companies.

pnathan 15y ago
The ACM and the IEEE are the key professional societies for computer science, computer engineering, and electrical engineering research. Wikipedia says the IEEE is non-profit, not sure about the ACM. IEEE weights towards the EE and high-math end of things, ACM weights towards the CS end of things. The Journal of the ACM is about $300USD/yr for print/online access (nonmember). I have a wide variety of interests and would prefer to have full access to about 5-7 journals (Some Wiley, some Elsevier). Assuming $300/year prices that's a pretty decent sized price to keep up with research interests. :-(
pnathan 15y ago
The ACM and the IEEE are the key professional societies for computer science, computer engineering, and electrical engineering research. Wikipedia says the IEEE is non-profit, not sure about the ACM. IEEE weights towards the EE and high-math end of things, ACM weights towards the CS end of things. The Journal of the ACM is about $300USD/yr for print/online access (nonmember). I have a wide variety of interests and would prefer to have full access to about 5-7 journals (Some Wiley, some Elsevier). Assuming $300/year prices that's a pretty decent sized price to keep up with research interests. :-(

pnathan 15y ago

The ACM and the IEEE are the key professional societies for computer science, computer engineering, and electrical engineering research. Wikipedia says the IEEE is non-profit, not sure about the ACM. IEEE weights towards the EE and high-math end of things, ACM weights towards the CS end of things. The Journal of the ACM is about $300USD/yr for print/online access (nonmember). I have a wide variety of interests and would prefer to have full access to about 5-7 journals (Some Wiley, some Elsevier). Assuming $300/year prices that's a pretty decent sized price to keep up with research interests. :-(

pnathan 15y ago