On Thu, May 26, 2022 at 1:09 PM Henry Mensch <henry@henare.com> wrote:

Unsure of your location, but it is likely that you can get your local public (!) library to “ILL” (interlibrary loan) items … including journal items … for you. It’s not instant access, but if you’re retired then this may be good enough.

> even though I'm a long-time ACM (and IEEE) member.

If you’re a *current* member of these societies then you should have good access to journal content.

I believe this is true for ACM, but for IEEE not so much. You have to pay for a digital library membership _in addition to_ your standard membership. It's very annoying; IEEE is the one that really grinds my gears generally.

>FWIW: the single item that I am the proudest of when I was USENIX President was opening access to its entire library to everyone - members or otherwise.

I have used this in the past, so thank you for being way ahead of your time.

+1. You have to ask for some of the older stuff explicitly (it hasn't been scanned yet or similar) but it's nice to be able to get access to USENIX materials.

- Dan C.