On Tue, 22 Sep 2009 18:12:09 -0700 (PDT), Art Unwin
wrote:

Yes, some university libraries allow access to the public but not for
copies. These must
come from journals at quite high prices. Here you can be a member of a
professional society say IEEE but to get the journals of say antennas
and propagation then you must pay a couple of $100 to have access to
them. This is on top of the fees for the institution and the group
that you are personally a member of which also requires fees.

Ummm... IEEE full membership is now $175/year. Membership in the
Antennas and Progagation group is $24/year.
http://www.ieee.org/web/membership/Cost/dues.html
That's about 4000 pages for the extra $24.

If you are a retired former IEEE member, currently unemployed,
disabled, or are working for only peanuts or stock options, you can
get up to a 50% discount on dues.
http://www.ieee.org/web/membership/Cost/special_circumstances.html

You can see the articles in each past issue at:
http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/RecentIssue.jsp?puNumber=8

If you're a cheap tightwad non-member, like me, you can buy individual
articles ala carte for $29 each:
http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/guide/g_tools_apo.jsp

If you don't mind just older papers, a member can buy the DVD with
everything from AP-S from 1952-2000:
http://www.ict.csiro.au/aps/cdrom.htm
for $100.

If you're a non-member, you really pay hansomly for the printed
publications.
http://www.ieee.org/portal/cms_docs_iportals/iportals/publications/subscriptions/info/IEEE_Sub_Price_List_2010.pdf
For example, the Antenna and Propagation IEEE Transactions for a year
(12 issues) costs $1,200.



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