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 -----Original Message----- From: ietf-bounces@xxxxxxxx [mailto:ietf-bounces@xxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Masataka Ohta Sent: 11 May 2011 00:23 To: ietf@xxxxxxxx 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 _______________________________________________ Ietf mailing list Ietf@xxxxxxxx https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf Scanned by Check Point Total Security Gateway. _______________________________________________ Ietf mailing list Ietf@xxxxxxxx https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf