No matter what citation graph I explore, IEEE is without fail the most broken part of the graph.
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No matter what citation graph I explore, IEEE is without fail the most broken part of the graph. Ridiculous per-paper pricing, non-institution membership options so byzantine I gave up (vs. ACM, which wanted to take my money and therefore got it), and of course an iron fist of exclusivity and closed access for the IP they rip out of authors' hands.
If you publish in an IEEE journal, you might as well be chucking your research in the shredder as far as the world outside academia's concerned
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Ah well never mind, Bifrost sounded like an interesting new HDL published last year, but it was published by IEEE so I'll never find out more. At least until a shadow library liberates it.
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@danderson it effectively wasn't published
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@fugueish It seems to be generating some interest in academia, and has led to some interestingly titled papers. But yeah, on principle I refuse to give $30 to IEEE to find out if it's worth exploring further. I wonder if I can paypal $30 to the authors for a preprint draft...
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@fugueish Hah, looks like I can do one better. One of the author submitted a thesis paper, which is available, and it _seems_ the paper I was after might effectively be wholly incorporated within. Yes, yes, excellent.
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@danderson Many years ago I wrote for an IEEE journal a long and detailed referee's report for a deeply flawed paper, asking for significant changes. I later learned that another, more venerable researcher had done the same. They published it unchanged, and I vowed never again to write or referee for the IEEE.