Re: How to pay $47 for a copy of RFC 793

[Steven Bellovin <[e-mail]>]

On May 10, 2011, at 5:22 43PM, Masataka Ohta wrote:

> Bob Braden wrote:
> 
>> I wonder how many other IEEE standards contain similar
>> RFC-for-pay references..
> 
> It's common (much more than 50% for academic ones, IMHO) that
> sold articles are freely available on-line.
> 
> For example, a PDF file of the paper "End-to-end arguments in
> system design" can be purchased for $15 from:
> 
>   http://doi.ieeecomputersociety.org/10.1145/357401.357402
> 
> which is the first link appears in google scholar search with
> the paper title, or, from:
> 
>   http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?doid=357401.357402
> 
> to which the above IEEE link is redirected, but is available
> free of charge from:
> 
>   http://web.mit.edu/Saltzer/www/publications/endtoend/endtoend.pdf
> 
> which is the second link (next to google scholar one) with plain
> google search.
> 
> 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.

Unfortunately, the IEEE has tightened its copyright policy; see
http://www.ieee.org/publications_standards/publications/rights/paperversionpolicy.html
for details.


		--Steve Bellovin, https://www.cs.columbia.edu/~smb