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speeding_snail  ·  4419 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Hiding your research behind a paywall is immoral

I just looked it up for my field (Electrical Engineering). IEEE is the go to association for publishing in the EE field. When I probed a little deeper, I saw that one needs a subscription to read any of the articles. You even need to be a member of IEEE before you can get a subscription.

So essentially, pretty much everything is paywalled. Even the standards, which is ridiculous. It's like having to pay in order to read the law.