[time-nuts] Paywall rant

[Joseph M Gwinn]

Both ACM and IEEE are publishers at heart.  IEEE likes to boast that they
publish almost a third of the world's technical literature.

It's instructive to look at their annual reports, where sources and uses of
funds are documented.  Follow the money, always.

Joe Gwinn


Ref:  <http://www.ieee.org/about/today/index.html>




From:	"Poul-Henning Kamp" <phk at phk.freebsd.dk>
To:	Discussion of precise time and frequency measurement
            <time-nuts at febo.com>
Date:	06/05/2012 03:53 AM
Subject:	Re: [time-nuts] Paywall rant
Sent by:	time-nuts-bounces at febo.com



In message <20120605072656.314C1800037 at ip-64-139-1-69.sjc.megapath.net>,
Hal Mu
rray writes:

>The IEEE is particularly behind the times.

As is ACM.  I'm told through the grapewine that digital subscriptions
is a major part of their budget, so nothing will be opened unless with
a crowbar.

--
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