On 7/8/18 12:09 PM, djl wrote:
Greg et.al. IEEE stuff is just too expensive for single purchase. I have
found, to my sorrow over 40 odd years, that they also do not contain
<real> information, that is, info of actual use, because some other
company or person might actually benefit. In other words, the papers are
markers in the sand.
Depends a lot on what you're looking at. I make pretty heavy use of
such papers on a day to day basis.
It is true that of late, there's an awful lot of "we built this
specialized circuit as part of a multiproject wafer using tool sets that
you can only afford if you're a billionaire or get them as part of a
university" stuff out there, which makes it probably non-duplicateable,
but there's also a lot of useful things.
But the older papers I use a lot (like the one on making coupled line
filters) were probably viewed as just as exotic back in the late 50s
when making accurate microwave measurements was quite timeconsuming and
tedious.
Now, this is my own opinion, a bit harsh, admittedly. Of course the
citations do need to be mentioned.
BTW, any published material generated with government funds that is not
classified belongs to the people, and is not copyrighted. I wonder if
that includes IEEE papers? that is, if anyone buys one, it can be copied
or distributed without restriction?
Not precisely - But in general, much government sponsored research has
no copyright, and the notice will say as much in the journal.
That said, there's no obligation for IEEE to make it available for free.
And IEEE has no problem with authors providing a "pre-print" edition of
their current papers online on their own server.
It is easy to find the whole proceedings for that conference at a
government site:
http://www.dtic.mil/dtic/tr/fulltext/u2/a217381.pdf
Another way to get a free copy (but tedious) is to file a Freedom of
Information Act request - JPL gets lots of these every year asking for
"Document JPL D-12345" or similar.. and someone prints it out and sends
it (or, these days, they may even just send you a .pdf, if that meets
the requirements of the FOIA).
I would say that for "recent" (last 20 years) papers, most government
places have some sort of online repository (yes, it comes and goes,
NASA's repo disappeared for a while then came back).
It's the older material that's harder to come by (70s and 80s), mostly
because the keeper of the docs hasn't got back that far when scanning.
You can find "popular" docs that are requested a lot(e.g. the "Los
Alamos Primer"), but more obscure ones take a while.
The indexing is also sometimes a bit wonky - I find I need to try
different searches using parts of the title, or sometimes the report
number, or the author's name. But this particular one was easy - it was
in the first page of hits from Google.
Also, not all government funded research is "public". IN particular,
Small Business Innovative Research (SBIR) grants give the grantee
exclusive rights for a significant period (5 years??), and the reports
can contain proprietary information, and so are not subject to unlimited
distribution.
Similarly, University research that is funded by the government is
subject to the Bayh-Dole Act - the university retains title and rights
to the research. It depends on the specific grant/contract whether
reports of that research are subject to copyright or not.
Philosophically, the government does this to get something of value
without having to spend as much money on it, since the producer can then
sell it to others as well. More research done, less taxpayer dollars, etc.
Another reason taxpayer funded research might not be published is that
it uses a third party's proprietary information. If I do a bunch of
rocket engine tests (I wish!) on Acme Corp's special proprietary rocket
fuel mixture, I might be able to publish the test results, but not be
able to publish the analysis that provided the expected values, based on
the rocket fuel formulation.
Not being in the lawyer class, I can't say for sure...
Thanks
Don
On 2018-07-08 10:39, Gregory Beat via time-nuts wrote:
Magnus -
When I scan/read the 1984 IEEE document, “Lifetime and Reliability of
Rubidium Discharge Lamps for Use in Atomic Frequency Standards”
by Aerospace Corp., Efraton-Ball, and EG&G.
https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/1537723/
The failure of the rubidium lamps used on early NAVSTAR satellites,
was the reason for in-depth studies of the Rb lamp, its lifetime and
failure mechanism.
greg
Hi -
I later tried that method on my R&S XSRM rubidium, with good progress. I
have reported on that on the list way back. It took two attempts, one
just to realize that I needed to keep the pinch at the top, because that
is where the hot atoms go.
Essentially, the thin film of rubidium will consume too much of the
radiation to emit any useful amount of pumping light. Heating it has the
rubidium go into gas and then collect somewhere cold, so it's just about
making sure that somewhere cold isn't the glass where it is to emit
light.
My XSRM have however other issues that I need to attend to.
Cheers,
Magnus
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