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Hmm, looking into it myself, it looks not generalizable, short of searching for the document title and hoping you get lucky. This wasn’t a direct paywall bypass
by floam 2y ago
Hmm, looking into it myself, it looks not generalizable, short of searching for the document title and hoping you get lucky. This wasn’t a direct paywall bypass.
It looks like this is actually just a version of the document published a different way.
Posted to HN from IEEE GLOBECOM 2008 - 2008 IEEE Global Telecommunications Conference:
https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/abstract/document/4698465 https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/abstract/document/4698465
Same thing but free from IEEE Communications Magazine, vol. 47, no. 11:
https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/abstract/document/5307460 https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/abstract/document/5307460
Person I replied to clicked the PDF button on the freely-available version.
- brudgers 2y agoI think I remember IEEE making everything available a few years ago…there’s probably an HN discussion if it happened (but it might have been ACM (or both)). If so, this would be an ordinary dark pattern of extracting payment where it is not absolutely necessary. Anyway, I googled the title based on my possibly accurate memory. In fairness my impression is that very few HN members ’give back’ by joining such organizations. It’s not part of today’s startup mindset.
- Jtsummers 2y agoACM is the one pushing towards open access for everything. IEEE is not as far along with that. It gets really annoying, I'm a member of a couple IEEE societies and find that I have to use my institutional login (GA Tech in my case) to reliably get access to their publications. With ACM, I join a SIG and I pretty much get the entirety of the SIG's digital library (even before the bigger open access push).