Publishers blocking IPs for alleged sci-hub use

by jboynyc on 7/12/2019, 11:58 AM with 53 comments
  • by dublinben on 7/12/2019, 5:53 PM
  • by lolc on 7/12/2019, 12:52 PM

    I don't think this is about using Sci-Hub. It looks like the journal is trying to prevent mass-exfiltration of its articles to Sci-Hub.

    Why would they do that based on IP-addresses and not based on accounts? Maybe they're actually combining those. So when an account used the same IP-Address like a "ripper" account, it will get associated with it. And the blocking message shows the old address. This can easily happen at a university where a lot of accounts access the journal through the same IP-Address.

    Well... Sci-Hub doesn't have these blocks. So just use that service if you want to get work done.

    Also, WHOIS says the IP-Address 86.168.188.188 is used by British Telecom: AS2856 BT Public Internet

  • by enriquto on 7/12/2019, 1:02 PM

    I hope scihub engages in a full-scale campaign for university professors setting their computers as scihub proxies. Only a professor in each major university would suffice to block all universities from the extortionist journals! That would certainly be a boost to scihub!

  • by hedora on 7/12/2019, 4:18 PM

    Honest question: I want to download all papers I am an author of (I have joint copyright, and limited redistribution rights for all of these), but I don’t have logins for the publisher sites for all of them, and finding the long tail of papers in my backups is a PITA.

    I haven’t used scihub, but it sounds like the best tool for this purpose. Any hints on how to proceed? Has someone written a script to do this or something?

  • by judge2020 on 7/12/2019, 5:36 PM
  • by jsilence on 7/14/2019, 9:12 AM

    Still wondering why SciHub is not yet on IPFS or dat://.

  • by eli on 7/12/2019, 12:52 PM

    Surprised it took so long