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I totally disagree if you get a membership which is affordable at $99 per year you get access to lots of good learning material. That includes computer books from O'reilly and courses from Skillsoft.

Portal https://learning.acm.org/

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That doesn't give you access to the Digital Library, which is the part of this that's relevant to the article, and it doesn't change the other arguments given.

Still, if you compare getting O'Reilly membership by itself it would be cheaper to get the ACM membership

My public library offers O'Reilly digital access. Unfortunately, it was some limited subset of what O'Reilly's own subscription service offers. How does ACM compare?

Even as an ACM member with multiple subgroup memberships and subscriptions I can’t figure out what I have access to and what I don’t. Far too complex an access model for what they are.

Who are you kidding? For the same annual cost of IEEE membership which doesn't provide shit for access to papers, ACM opens up its entire Digital Library!

Student membership allows access to nearly all DL resources. Professional membership does not, and you have to pay extra for all the other costs.

This year I paid around $250 for the membership to all the group I was interested into. This is 1/2 of my monthly salary that I get from my government. My government or university does not pay for this, they do not even pay for library access, I do it myself.

Plus I write peer reviews, for free.

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