Gus Wirth wrote:
Tracy R Reed wrote:
Tracy R Reed wrote:
and sure enough it is:
http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1327452.1327492&coll=GUIDE&dl=&idx=J79&part=magazine&WantType=Magazines&title=Communications%20of%20the%20ACM
Bah. You have to be a paying member to download the PDF which only
costs them a few electrons to distribute. Not very friendly IMHO.
My subscription costs me $99/year. This is a magazine for computing
academics so they aren't into the "educating the general public cheaply"
approach. Putting the stuff online for free would destroy the print
magazine.
Which I might feel some sympathy for if they actually paid for the
content or paid the reviewers of the content.
In addition, if that is really their rationale, they should open up the
archives after a year or so.
What they are really protecting is their rather expensive access package
that they sell to universities, whose staff provide the articles *in the
first place*.
In addition, I'm really starting to worry about the fact that the
*libraries* are no longer storing all of this kind of information (it's
all off-site, online access). If someone decided to outlaw the ACM, it
would only have to seize their servers and backup tapes and the ACM
effectively *disappears* since libraries no longer have independent copies.
It seems that we have forgotten the lesson of Alexandria.
-a
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