On 5/6/2015 9:24 AM, sroberts6328@gmail.com wrote:> > Some Engineering student or professor on campus goes around exercising his freedom of speech. He pops up A4 posters reading: > > "IEEE Transactions on Opportunity Hoarding" > > Steve >Unfortunately that title doesn't narrow it down very much. ;) Cheers Phil Hobbs -- Dr Philip C D Hobbs Principal Consultant ElectroOptical Innovations LLC Optics, Electro-optics, Photonics, Analog Electronics 160 North State Road #203 Briarcliff Manor NY 10510 hobbs at electrooptical dot net http://electrooptical.net
Paper on reducing 1/f noise in amplifiers
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On Wed, 06 May 2015 07:09:13 -0700, John Larkin <jlarkin@highlandtechnology.com> wrote:>On Wed, 06 May 2015 06:56:19 -0700, Jim Thompson ><To-Email-Use-The-Envelope-Icon@On-My-Web-Site.com> wrote: > >>On Wed, 06 May 2015 01:57:48 -0400, Phil Hobbs >><pcdhSpamMeSenseless@electrooptical.net> wrote: >> >>>On 5/5/2015 5:20 PM, Phil Hobbs wrote: >>>> AoE 3 P. 485 (footnote 22) references a paper by Broderson, Chenette >>>> & Jaeger, entitled "A Superior Low Noise Amplifier", 1970 ISSC, P. >>>> 164. Before I feed yet another $31 into the voracious maw of the >>>> IEEE, does anybody have a copy handy? >>>> >>> >>>Received a copy from the estimable John M in Scotland. Interesting bit >>>of work, but only a couple of pages long--about $15 per page from the >>>ever-generous IEEE. Thanks, John! >>> >>>Cheers >>> >>>Phil Hobbs >> >>What annoys me is that virtually all of this research is funded by the >>taxpayer, so we get to pay twice :-( >> >>Maybe a lawsuit is in order? >> >> ...Jim Thompson > >The abstracts are written to make it unclear whether the paper might >be useful. You have to buy the whole thing to find out. It's better to >assume that it's not useful, which is the general case.Certainly a lot of it is pure gibberish. But I have a PhD buddy who gets me copies (for free) of anything I find interesting. ...Jim Thompson -- | James E.Thompson | mens | | Analog Innovations | et | | Analog/Mixed-Signal ASIC's and Discrete Systems | manus | | San Tan Valley, AZ 85142 Skype: skypeanalog | | | Voice:(480)460-2350 Fax: Available upon request | Brass Rat | | E-mail Icon at http://www.analog-innovations.com | 1962 | I love to cook with wine. Sometimes I even put it in the food.
Reply by ●May 6, 20152015-05-06
On 5/6/2015 10:57 AM, Jim Thompson wrote:> On Wed, 06 May 2015 07:09:13 -0700, John Larkin > <jlarkin@highlandtechnology.com> wrote: > >> On Wed, 06 May 2015 06:56:19 -0700, Jim Thompson >> <To-Email-Use-The-Envelope-Icon@On-My-Web-Site.com> wrote: >> >>> On Wed, 06 May 2015 01:57:48 -0400, Phil Hobbs >>> <pcdhSpamMeSenseless@electrooptical.net> wrote: >>> >>>> On 5/5/2015 5:20 PM, Phil Hobbs wrote: >>>>> AoE 3 P. 485 (footnote 22) references a paper by Broderson, Chenette >>>>> & Jaeger, entitled "A Superior Low Noise Amplifier", 1970 ISSC, P. >>>>> 164. Before I feed yet another $31 into the voracious maw of the >>>>> IEEE, does anybody have a copy handy? >>>>> >>>> >>>> Received a copy from the estimable John M in Scotland. Interesting bit >>>> of work, but only a couple of pages long--about $15 per page from the >>>> ever-generous IEEE. Thanks, John! >>>> >>>> Cheers >>>> >>>> Phil Hobbs >>> >>> What annoys me is that virtually all of this research is funded by the >>> taxpayer, so we get to pay twice :-( >>> >>> Maybe a lawsuit is in order? >>> >>> ...Jim Thompson >> >> The abstracts are written to make it unclear whether the paper might >> be useful. You have to buy the whole thing to find out. It's better to >> assume that it's not useful, which is the general case. > > Certainly a lot of it is pure gibberish. But I have a PhD buddy who > gets me copies (for free) of anything I find interesting. > > ...Jim Thompson >The Optical Society is more generous--I get 50 or something downloads included with my $100 per year membership, which is a lot more reasonable. Cheers Phil Hobbs -- Dr Philip C D Hobbs Principal Consultant ElectroOptical Innovations LLC Optics, Electro-optics, Photonics, Analog Electronics 160 North State Road #203 Briarcliff Manor NY 10510 hobbs at electrooptical dot net http://electrooptical.net
Reply by ●May 6, 20152015-05-06
On Wed, 06 May 2015 07:57:18 -0700, Jim Thompson <To-Email-Use-The-Envelope-Icon@On-My-Web-Site.com> wrote:>On Wed, 06 May 2015 07:09:13 -0700, John Larkin ><jlarkin@highlandtechnology.com> wrote: > >>On Wed, 06 May 2015 06:56:19 -0700, Jim Thompson >><To-Email-Use-The-Envelope-Icon@On-My-Web-Site.com> wrote: >> >>>On Wed, 06 May 2015 01:57:48 -0400, Phil Hobbs >>><pcdhSpamMeSenseless@electrooptical.net> wrote: >>> >>>>On 5/5/2015 5:20 PM, Phil Hobbs wrote: >>>>> AoE 3 P. 485 (footnote 22) references a paper by Broderson, Chenette >>>>> & Jaeger, entitled "A Superior Low Noise Amplifier", 1970 ISSC, P. >>>>> 164. Before I feed yet another $31 into the voracious maw of the >>>>> IEEE, does anybody have a copy handy? >>>>> >>>> >>>>Received a copy from the estimable John M in Scotland. Interesting bit >>>>of work, but only a couple of pages long--about $15 per page from the >>>>ever-generous IEEE. Thanks, John! >>>> >>>>Cheers >>>> >>>>Phil Hobbs >>> >>>What annoys me is that virtually all of this research is funded by the >>>taxpayer, so we get to pay twice :-( >>> >>>Maybe a lawsuit is in order? >>> >>> ...Jim Thompson >> >>The abstracts are written to make it unclear whether the paper might >>be useful. You have to buy the whole thing to find out. It's better to >>assume that it's not useful, which is the general case. > >Certainly a lot of it is pure gibberish. But I have a PhD buddy who >gets me copies (for free) of anything I find interesting. > > ...Jim ThompsonI can go to the nearby UC Med Center library. For a min of $20, I can buy a printer card, which lets me print things for $1 a page. They have all the major journals online. I can look at them on a PC, and print just the pages I want. I do that on an occasional binge basis, maybe once a year, when I need to learn something new. Last one was Fourier Transform Mass Spectroscopy. I might research sub-Abbe-resolution fluorescent microscopy soon. -- John Larkin Highland Technology, Inc picosecond timing laser drivers and controllers jlarkin att highlandtechnology dott com http://www.highlandtechnology.com
Reply by ●May 6, 20152015-05-06
On Wednesday, May 6, 2015 at 7:59:10 AM UTC-7, Phil Hobbs wrote:> The Optical Society is more generous--I get 50 or something downloads > included with my $100 per year membership, which is a lot more reasonable.This is also how the IEEE Digital Library program works, except it's more like $40/month. It's violently annoying to pay that for research that was largely taxpayer-funded in the first place, but it's also a hard habit to break. For one-off requests, try /r/scholar on Reddit. -- john, KE5FX
Reply by ●May 7, 20152015-05-07
On 06/05/2015 23:56, Jim Thompson wrote:> On Wed, 06 May 2015 01:57:48 -0400, Phil Hobbs > <pcdhSpamMeSenseless@electrooptical.net> wrote: > >> On 5/5/2015 5:20 PM, Phil Hobbs wrote: >>> AoE 3 P. 485 (footnote 22) references a paper by Broderson, Chenette >>> & Jaeger, entitled "A Superior Low Noise Amplifier", 1970 ISSC, P. >>> 164. Before I feed yet another $31 into the voracious maw of the >>> IEEE, does anybody have a copy handy? >>> >> >> Received a copy from the estimable John M in Scotland. Interesting bit >> of work, but only a couple of pages long--about $15 per page from the >> ever-generous IEEE. Thanks, John! >> >> Cheers >> >> Phil Hobbs > > What annoys me is that virtually all of this research is funded by the > taxpayer, so we get to pay twice :-( > > Maybe a lawsuit is in order? > > ...Jim Thompson >I think the IEEE probably doesn't own the copyright on the US Govt research. When I worked for a company and submitted a conference paper to ISSCC they made me sign something to assign the copyright to them, like this form: https://www.ieee.org/documents/ieeecopyrightform.pdf You will notice the section for US and UK government employees to sign - where they concede that where the funding body won't give the IEEE all of their rights, the IEEE is still happy to publish the paper anyway. Admittedly the IEEE can still coerce authors into handing over right to a lot of papers that are only indirectly government-funded. If you could compile a database of all of those papers that the IEEE does not own the rights to, and put those papers online, I doubt the IEEE could do a thing about it, and may get in trouble if it tries. Anyway I don't intend to sign any more if the IEEE's copyright assignment forms, if they ever do want to print something of mine in future. I would like for a referendum of IEEE members to be held, about whether papers over 5 years old should be automatically open-access to members, and whether the papers should also be open-access to the public. I think most members would want at least older papers to be open-access, and most corporate subscribers to IEEE journals would keep paying for immediate access. I would like such a referendum to be held, not because I think the IEEE would obey the outcome, but because their reaction would demonstrate whose interest the IEEE management works for. Chris
Reply by ●May 7, 20152015-05-07
In physics, we have the Arxiv preprint site, where you can have a look at a lot of papers in publication. It's run sort of like the Royal Society--you have to have a member submit the paper for you, which keeps down the spammers and cranks. It also goes a long way towards solving the fast vs slow journal problem in hot fields. (I don't read that many recent physics papers.) Cheers Phil Hobbs
