The US Library of Congress has put 25M items free online

Re:The US Library of Congress has put 25M items free online by xvilka on Monday May 29, 2017 @12:59AM (#14437479)

Meanwhile Elsevier, who is widely known for inhibiting science progress by setting incredible high prices even for government funded research papers, makes a move against SciHub [1] and LibGen [2] again [3].

[1] https://sci-hub.cc/

[2] http://libgen.io/

[3] https://torrentfreak.com/elsevier-wants-15-million-piracy-da...

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Re:The US Library of Congress has put 25M items free online by agumonkey on Monday May 29, 2017 @05:26AM (#14438247)

I find scihub/libgen a very important project actually. Mirrors should be done (not an order, just a plan).

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Re:The US Library of Congress has put 25M items free online by petepete on Monday May 29, 2017 @05:42AM (#14438294)

I've never heard of libgen but it's blocked by my ISP (in the UK)

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Re:The US Library of Congress has put 25M items free online by tim333 on Monday May 29, 2017 @01:54PM (#14440401)

Oh yeah so it is. https://www.hotspotshield.com/ (free) works well for that kind of thing.

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Re:The US Library of Congress has put 25M items free online by user5994461 on Monday May 29, 2017 @06:10AM (#14438373)

Indeed.

    Access to the websites listed on this page has been blocked pursuant to orders of the high court.

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Re:The US Library of Congress has put 25M items free online by xvilka on Monday May 29, 2017 @06:35AM (#14438438)

SciHub has onion site scihub22266oqcxt.onion, I don't know about LibGen though.

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Re:The US Library of Congress has put 25M items free online by vog on Monday May 29, 2017 @08:01AM (#14438673)

Here in Germany libgen is not blocked.

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