Sci-Hub Is Blowing Up the Academic Publishing Industry

Re:Sci-Hub Is Blowing Up the Academic Publishing Industry by semi-extrinsic on Monday May 30, 2016 @03:48PM (#11802772)

The one thing I've not seen mentioned yet in the Sci-Hub discussions is that the national level academic ISPs seem to have put a very effective domain and IP address block on SciHub. I've tested this both from UK and Scandinavian university networks I have access to, and none of the SciHub domains nor the direct IPs are accessible.

Can anyone in the US or rest of Europe with university access test this?

It's certainly ironic when you need an ssh tunnel from your university to your home to be able to read academic papers at work.

Edit: I have not tried eduroam, just uni ethernets. All Norwegian universities have the block both on DNS and on IPs. Imperial College only has the block on DNS, not on the IP.

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Re:Sci-Hub Is Blowing Up the Academic Publishing Industry by aw3c2 on Monday May 30, 2016 @04:23PM (#11802961)

http://scihub22266oqcxt.onion/

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Re:Sci-Hub Is Blowing Up the Academic Publishing Industry by Loic on Monday May 30, 2016 @04:20PM (#11802950)

DTU (Chemical Engineering) has not blocked the access to http://sci-hub.cc.

Maybe you can check if you can resolve the domain with an open DNS server like 8.8.8.8 from Google and then access it from your university network.

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Re:Sci-Hub Is Blowing Up the Academic Publishing Industry by Blahah on Monday May 30, 2016 @04:34PM (#11803023)

http://sci-hub.cc/ works in the UK

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Re:Sci-Hub Is Blowing Up the Academic Publishing Industry by semi-extrinsic on Monday May 30, 2016 @04:36PM (#11803036)

This is from Cambridge? Eduroam or uni ethernet?

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Re:Sci-Hub Is Blowing Up the Academic Publishing Industry by kchoudhu on Monday May 30, 2016 @06:25PM (#11803567)

3 Mobile, UK here -- it's accessible.

It's shocking to me that your university administrator has put a block in place on a website that isn't obviously malicious.

VPNs are cheap. In this case, I think it's worth it to invest in one.

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Re:Sci-Hub Is Blowing Up the Academic Publishing Industry by justincormack on Tuesday May 31, 2016 @03:36AM (#11805239)

Virgin media is blocking some addresses but not that one so I presume they are on the UK blacklist.

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Re:Sci-Hub Is Blowing Up the Academic Publishing Industry by peteretep on Monday May 30, 2016 @08:30PM (#11803944)

Loading fine from ox.ac.uk VPN

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Re:Sci-Hub Is Blowing Up the Academic Publishing Industry by jkeler on Monday May 30, 2016 @05:52PM (#11803434)

You don't need DNS, access it directly by IP: http://31.184.194.81/

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Re:Sci-Hub Is Blowing Up the Academic Publishing Industry by cloudjacker on Monday May 30, 2016 @04:03PM (#11802861)

My university hasn't blocked them either.. JK sci-hub is my university

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Re:Sci-Hub Is Blowing Up the Academic Publishing Industry by wongarsu on Monday May 30, 2016 @03:58PM (#11802827)

My university in Germany hasn't blocked them either.

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Re:Sci-Hub Is Blowing Up the Academic Publishing Industry by IVDV on Monday May 30, 2016 @03:50PM (#11802781)

My university (in USA) has not blocked SciHub domains.

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Re:Sci-Hub Is Blowing Up the Academic Publishing Industry by hrrsn on Monday May 30, 2016 @06:56PM (#11803676)

Works from my university here in New Zealand.

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Re:Sci-Hub Is Blowing Up the Academic Publishing Industry by tschuy on Monday May 30, 2016 @04:31PM (#11803008)

Not blocked here in France.

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Re:Sci-Hub Is Blowing Up the Academic Publishing Industry by quaz3l on Monday May 30, 2016 @04:06PM (#11802878)

sci-hub.cc works at the University of Denver

Edit: also accessible via eduroam at DU.

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Re:Sci-Hub Is Blowing Up the Academic Publishing Industry by Symbiote on Tuesday May 31, 2016 @03:02AM (#11805128)

Can you submit a support ticket and find out why?

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Re:Sci-Hub Is Blowing Up the Academic Publishing Industry by softrock on Monday May 30, 2016 @03:54PM (#11802803)

My university in the US has not blocked it either.

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Re:Sci-Hub Is Blowing Up the Academic Publishing Industry by thrownaway1984 on Monday May 30, 2016 @04:01PM (#11802853)

Is this block eduroam wide or *.ac.uk wide?

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Re:Sci-Hub Is Blowing Up the Academic Publishing Industry by semi-extrinsic on Monday May 30, 2016 @04:22PM (#11802957)

I haven't tried eduroam, only cabled uni networks.

I just tried several Norwegian ones, traceroute indicates they are blocked by the national level academic ISP in Oslo.

The one in the UK is stopped by a university "badware" firewall.

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Re:Sci-Hub Is Blowing Up the Academic Publishing Industry by wongarsu on Tuesday May 31, 2016 @06:53AM (#11805803)

sci-hub.cc works in eduroam in my German university.

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Re:Sci-Hub Is Blowing Up the Academic Publishing Industry by aub3bhat on Monday May 30, 2016 @04:20PM (#11802947)

Available at Cornell through Eduroam.

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Re:Sci-Hub Is Blowing Up the Academic Publishing Industry by MOARDONGZPLZ on Monday May 30, 2016 @05:47PM (#11803412)

Works in Cambridge, MA.

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