From: "Pikas, Christina K." <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Tue, 16 Feb 2016 01:31:01 +0000

In the past, students have shared their directory logins in internet
forums. The publisher usually figures it out pretty quickly and
notifies the school who then shuts down the account. Other times
hackers have found faulty settings on proxy servers and the like. Once
again, one of the more technologically advanced publishers will notice
and tell the school.

I don’t know if it’s impossible to get delisted – maybe to stay that
way given the publicity. It seems that the school could shut down the
access point if they knew what it was but another might arise soon
after.

I don’t know that anyone has pointed to this article yet:

Cabanac, G. (in press), Bibliogifts in LibGen? A study of a
text-sharing platform driven by biblioleaks and crowdsourcing. Journal
of the Association for Information Science and Technology. doi:
10.1002/asi.23445

I asked the author (on Twitter) about concerns he had regarding doing
the research and using his computer. He seems to have escaped
unscathed.

Christina, who is not even going to think about taking a look at this thing




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Subject: SciHub (was: Elsevier cracks down on pirated articles)

From: Richard James <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Mon, 15 Feb 2016 13:53:34 -0500

having taken a (cautious) look at sci-hub for the first time recently-
since I try to make a rule of not visiting Russian file-sharing sites
if given a choice- I was struck by the fact that retrieved articles
are stamped with the usual retrieval information specifying the
institutional source for the pdf etc.

Which raises the question in my mind: is it possible to find out if
one's own library is being used to contribute to this mass-piracy
criminal enterprise, and if so, what should one do about it? Presuming
that it's impossible to get 'delisted' from sci-hub, what kind of
protections can be put in place to minimize risk?



On Wed, Jun 10, 2015 at 6:31 PM, LIBLICENSE <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

From: Ann Shumelda Okerson <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Wed, 10 Jun 2015 18:26:45 -0400

Of possible interest.

Academic publishing company Elsevier has filed a complaint at a New
York District Court, hoping to shut down the Library Genesis project
and the SciHub.org search engine. The sites, which are particularly
popular in developing nations where access to academic works is
relatively expensive, are accused of pirating millions of scientific
articles.

http://torrentfreak.com/elsevier-cracks-down-on-pirated-scientific-articles-150609/