FWIW this problem exists in many other branches of science too. I'm glad that APS now has an option that the author of a paper can pay a fee for the peer review, and in turn obtains the right to make a copy of the paper publicly available ("open access").
It sounds a bit backwards, but in practice it works out (at least if your employer pays the open access fees, as mine does).
There are also peer reviewed Open Access journals, but mostly they don't have the same reputation and impact factors as the established ACM/APS/IEEE/whatever journals. Still http://www.doaj.org/ is quite interesting.
It sounds a bit backwards, but in practice it works out (at least if your employer pays the open access fees, as mine does).
There are also peer reviewed Open Access journals, but mostly they don't have the same reputation and impact factors as the established ACM/APS/IEEE/whatever journals. Still http://www.doaj.org/ is quite interesting.