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You have to work hard and come up with new ideas better than anyone else in the world, and demonstrate that. Then IEEE asks A review the work of B and B review
by aborsy 2y ago
You have to work hard and come up with new ideas better than anyone else in the world, and demonstrate that. Then IEEE asks A review the work of B and B review the work of A for free. If the work is good, IEEE will ask you to transfer your rights to your intellectual property to IEEE, and sometimes pay on top of that too. Of course, you have to pay exorbitant fees to present it. Lastly, you can’t download your own paper from IEEE and must pay IEEE through a subscription or per article. So, IEEE takes your work and sells it back to you. Meanwhile, the access is not open in 2024, and there is a lot of unpaid volunteer activity, typically by local students and academics.
Why? We give you a professional home!
The cost of the online dissemination is minimal, and the events and societies are run mostly by the communities.
Academia always seemed to be a fraud in some ways.
- ta988 2y agoEach scientific kingdom has the same. Chemistry has ACS for example, that even has secret agreements with university libraries (at the request of ACS not the librarians but they have no choice but to sign if they want the services).
- almostgotcaught 2y ago> Academia always seemed to be a fraud in some ways. In the western world at least, it's the last surviving guild-like institution. The industrial revolution and liberalization (free markets) obviated other such institutions.
- TheAceOfHearts 2y agoI hope we see more open and transparent alternatives take over these legacy systems. There's no reason to keep paying these useless middlemen so much money.
- tdeck 2y ago> Then IEEE asks A review the work of B and B review the work of A for free. If the work is good, IEEE will ask you to transfer your rights to your intellectual property to IEEE, and sometimes pay on top of that too. The article is talking about maintaining an IEEE membership. Is all this what's required to be a member of IEEE? From what I can tell, all that's required is paying the $229 annual membership fee. The IEEE president wants you to pay that fee - that's all it's about. The ACM is the same way - I was a member as a student, but when I saw the fee to remain a member and what you got for it, I couldn't believe anyone would pay. These organizations must make their money from people whose employees pay the dues because having an acm.org email and maybe getting to go to some networking events just isn't worth it.