IEEExplore...NOT Supporting Free Open Access to Research…Advancing Technology for Humanity (For a Profit)

IEEE…NOT Supporting Free Open Access to Research …Advancing Technology for Humanity (For a Profit off of Educational Researchers)

Educational Applications: THIS IS AN OPINION

I usually do not get on my soap box, but this time I need to WARN fellow educational researchers about these IEEE folks. They are related to:

American Society for Engineering Education
Educational Research and Methods Division

and the IEEE Education Society

 

Do as I say not as I do...

Look at my request for open access to educational related research:

-Original Message-----
From: ajaanrobcmu@gmail.com
Sent: 8/12/2010 5:26:43 AM
To: customer-service@ieee.org
Subject: Other
On Thu Aug 12 05:26:40 2010,
The following information was submitted:
fname = Rob
lname = Hatfield, M.Ed.
CompanyOrganization = Chiang Mai Univeristy
submit_by = ajaanrobcmu@gmail.com
birth_day =
birth_month =
birth_year =
MemberNumber = NONE
mailing_city = Muang
mailing_state = Chiangmai
mailing_country = Thailand
form_id = Other
comments = I am requesting free access to:

Mastering problem-based learning and case-based instruction techniques in a faculty learning community
This paper appears in: Frontiers in Education, 2005. FIE '05. Proceedings 35th Annual Conference
Issue Date: 19-22 Oct. 2005
On page(s): T3F - 9
Location: Indianopolis, IN
Print ISBN: 0-7803-9077-6
INSPEC Accession Number: 9052947
Digital Object Identifier: 10.1109/FIE.2005.1611944
Date of Current Version: 03 April 2006

In accordance to OPEN ACCESS to RESEARCH law passed in the United States of America.
I am a PhD candidate at Chiang Mai University in Knowledge Management in Education.

The response from ieeexplore.ieee.org:

But my request to open access to research was denied.

Dear Rob Hatfield
Thank you for your email inquiry. Thank you for your email inquiry. You may purchase a PDF download of this article on our Xplore site: www.ieeexplore.ieee.org/Xplore/guesthome.jsp. The non-member price is $30.00 and the Member price is $10.00. Members may also access articles by subscription. Please see the below sites for more information.
www.ieee.org/membership_services/index.html
www.ieee.org/publications_standards/publications/subscriptions/index.html
I hope I was able to answer all of your questions and concerns.  If you need further assistance, please do not hesitate to contact the IEEE Contact Center at:    contactcenter@ieee.org  or www.ieee.org/contactcenter
Sincerely,
Tom Burns
IEEE Contact Center
IEEE.  Fostering technological innovation and excellence for the benefit of humanity
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So as you can read from above the middle men publishers have found a way around the open access law by requiring membership to access the data. If your doing research and run into the ieeexplore site, move on to another site. Clever for now but in my opinion it won’t work with complaints being filed and reduction or research to theses publishers. I will not publish my research with these folks and I hope other researcher will not either. We have a great Engineering Faculty at our school...Oh well moving on...

So I suggest Do Not Support IEEE.ORG in any way. WHY pay when you can have FREE ACCESS to RESEARCH? I have removed all hypelinks and phone numbers to these folks. Also do not use Frontiers in Education Clearing House, they are in violation of the open access to research law. I have found that they are under the exclusive jurisdiction of the courts of the State of New York located in New York County or of the United States District Court of the Southern District of New York, and hereby submit to the jurisdiction of said courts. So DENIED FREE ACCESS TO RESEARCH INFORMATION. I wonder if other researchers in the USA can open them up with this NEW information I have provided and was able to research. Let me know how much money you will receive as a whistle blower in New York. 

Such a human waste of time and humanitarian research resources. Shame on you!