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IEEE to me is a different case. They do more than publish and IEEE, along with SPIE, although expensive still carries weight for me. I can assume the content is reasonably high quality and well reviewed.

In general, though, for-profit publishing will hopefully go away soon. As an engineer I need quality scientific publications without the distorted politics behind it. I could come up with any number of ways to improve on the current situation.

Why are you an IEEE member? Can't you just be not.

That doesn't solve the problem of getting open access to IEEE published papers.

They have DOI numbers, don't they? So you can just use sci-hub.

I find it irritating as an IEEE member that you don't get access to everything with a membership.

As far back as 2011, Matt Blaze was pushing for changes to the copyright policies of IEEE and ACM. http://www.mattblaze.org/blog/copywrongs

Hmm...hadn't thought about this but...same and same.