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

2011-05-11 02:00:45
Yup.

Years ago, when I was at university, I learned that the best way to find an 
article was to google the author's name, find his or her personal website, and 
the article would probably be linked from there.

Worked about 75% of the time.

Yoav 

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[mailto:ietf-bounces(_at_)ietf(_dot_)org] On Behalf Of Masataka Ohta
Sent: 11 May 2011 00:23
To: ietf(_at_)ietf(_dot_)org
Subject: Re: How to pay $47 for a copy of RFC 793

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.

                                                Masataka Ohta
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