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Don't feed the bastards; IEEE and ACM shall never see a dime from me. Instead of paying them $200, pay ~$100 to your local big university library, and get all
by mahmud 17y ago
Don't feed the bastards; IEEE and ACM shall never see a dime from me.
Instead of paying them $200, pay ~$100 to your local big university library, and get all the books, papers, and other research materials you can handle. I am a member of George Mason University's library (go Patriots!) and I paid $150 because I am not an alumnus. My perks include the entire ACM/IEEE publications, of course, along with all the books I can handle :-)
(only bad thing is the parking, which can run up to $20 sometimes; but I learned to go there after 7PM and stay til 12AM; taking home whatever books I like.)
Online? CiteSeer + googling author's names and hoping for their .edu/~home-pages.
- gruseom 17y agoI'm disappointed, though not surprised, that the situation is as bad as described in your and eugenejen's comments. It's ironic that the literature surrounding commercial (or at least production) software development is now exemplary in its openness while the academic literature is locked in these backwater ghettos.