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In article <1992Aug14.210508.6474@dfv.rwth-aachen.de> dec@dfv.rwth-aachen.de (Peter Decker) writes:
>By the way,
>I know, that all articles of some IEEE Transactions are managed in 
>BibTeX-Format.

>Would it be possible to get these entries via usenet.

>I am especially interested in 
>IEEE Transactions on Communication
>IEEE Transactions on Computation
>IEEE Transactions Vehicular Techology
>IEEE Communication Magazine

This is a perfectly reasonable and completely naive request.  Every
year, at election time, candidates for IEEE office and Computer Society
positions especially make impressive pronouncements about "improving
member services" through the use of "state-of-the-art technology."
We're told that we are moving into the 

			*Information Age*

and how, under his/her leadership, the IEEE (or one of its societies)
will exploit Information Age advances to improve "member services."

However, this ignores the fact that IEEE makes significant revenues
selling Transactions packages to university and corporate libraries.
For example, the IEEE's "All-Society Periodicals" package (which, one
would guess, provides a subscription to every IEEE Transactions, the
magazines such as Computer, and, perhaps, the Proceedings) costs $7995,
a savings of $4069 off the "combined (separate?) subscription prices."
The quotes are from an ad on the back cover of the June, 1992, issue of
Proceedings.

As another example, an individual (nonmember) subscription to the IEEE
Transactions on Information Theory costs $215 annually for six issues.
Member dues, including subscription, are a small fraction of this.

In addition, libraries pay a great deal of money (by an individual's
standards) for subscriptions to "Electrical and Electronics Abstracts,"
the "INSPEC" publication that abstracts and cross-indexes every article
in every IEEE publication.  This, too, is an important source of income
for IEEE.

Without this income, IEEE and Society dues would be even higher than
they are.  Members cannot have it both ways.  If your company or
university library cannot afford the costs of subscribing to all the
IEEE publications, ask them, instead, to subscribe to the "Abstracts."
Then ask them to obtain reprints of articles in which you are
interested.

_Brint
-- 
_Brinton Cooper 
<abc@brl.mil>, <cooper@udel.edu>, or  <ab.cooper@compmail.com>