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 From: LibLicense-L Discussion Forum [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of LIBLICENSE Sent: Monday, February 15, 2016 8:14 PM To: [log in to unmask] 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/