The IEEE may well publish 'almost a third...', but how many people actually read their stuff? It would be interesting to know what percentage of articles are actually read by more than a handfull, working in each field.
At one point I was getting easily 6" of professional journals a month from AIP, OSA, and IEEE. I stopped that because there were maybe one or two articles a year of interest, and I ran out of bookshelf space. IMO, the IEEE is pretty much useless for practicing engineers. It is mostly by and for academics to build up their resumes YMMV, -John =================== > > 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" <p...@phk.freebsd.dk> > To: Discussion of precise time and frequency measurement > <time-nuts@febo.com> > Date: 06/05/2012 03:53 AM > Subject: Re: [time-nuts] Paywall rant > Sent by: time-nuts-boun...@febo.com > > > > In message <20120605072656.314c1800...@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. > > -- > Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 > p...@freebsd.org | TCP/IP since RFC 956 > FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe > Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by > incompetence. > > _______________________________________________ > time-nuts mailing list -- time-nuts@febo.com > To unsubscribe, go to > https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts > and follow the instructions there. > _______________________________________________ > time-nuts mailing list -- time-nuts@febo.com > To unsubscribe, go to > https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts > and follow the instructions there. _______________________________________________ time-nuts mailing list -- time-nuts@febo.com To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts and follow the instructions there.