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| Jul 16, 2020 at 7:16 | comment | added | MarkJ | Thanks Sigfried. Actually I think the same applies to academic journals. Open access journals are the way forward. | |
| Jul 14, 2020 at 11:34 | comment | added | Sigfried | As a doctoral student working on infrastructure and tools in medical informatics, I frequently need to cite ISO standards, but without being able to read them, all I can do is stuff others have written about them. It certainly makes sense for a company wanting their products to comply with an ISO standard to chip in for the cost of maintaining the standard, but for scholars and students it seems crazy. I would say the same about academic journals, except my university provides me access to most of those. | |
| Nov 26, 2012 at 12:46 | history | edited | MarkJ | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Nov 25, 2012 at 23:30 | comment | added | Cole Tobin | You can get C# 5.0 for 328 franks from ISO or nothing from ECMA | |
| Dec 29, 2011 at 13:27 | comment | added | yannis | +1 That's a good list of standards that are available without any fees. Unfortunately, there are quite a few equally important standards that require larger fees than ISO. | |
| Dec 29, 2011 at 13:11 | history | answered | MarkJ | CC BY-SA 3.0 |