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Tuesday, March 16, 2004

Scholarly publishing embargoes: IEEE members protest their society's actions

John Dudley Miller, IEEE members furious, The Scientist, March 16, 2004. Miller reports on a petition organized by IEEE members and engineers worldwide calling on the society to "cease discrimination against IEEE members from countries that are embargoed by the US Government." The article quotes one IEEE fellow: "This has created just tremendous bad will toward the IEEE."