>>> It is a lot more time (and money) saving to search free >>> versions before entering transactions to purchase them than >>> to rely blindly on PubMed, IEEE, ACM, google scholar etc. > >So?
I expect that most people who use those databases have site licenses, so they don't care whether the articles are nominally free or not. When I need to do database searches, I go to the Cornell engineering library where I can get (quite legally) onto Cornell's network and use their institutional subscriptions. If I find something interesting, I click on it and download it, and have no idea whether it would have asked a non-subscriber to pay or not. I'm more worried that the ACM doesn't have any RFCs issued in the past seven years than that they ask non-subscribers to pay for the ones they do have. R's, John _______________________________________________ Ietf mailing list Ietf@ietf.org https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf
