<story><title>Elsevier Complaint Shuts Down Sci-Hub Domain Name</title><url>https://torrentfreak.com/elsevier-complaint-shuts-down-sci-hub-domain-name-160504/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>chias</author><text>I feel a little tingle of excitement seeing my own papers on Sci-Hub. I mean I get that they&amp;#x27;re trying to index &lt;i&gt;all&lt;/i&gt; publications so it&amp;#x27;s not a &amp;quot;stamp or approval&amp;quot; or anything... but it does mean that people can actually access the knowledge I tried to throw into the world, which was kind of the whole point in doing it.&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;d update my academic website to link my papers to their sci-hub URLs if I didn&amp;#x27;t think I&amp;#x27;d catch a world of flak for it.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>finfet1</author><text>IEEE and IEEE Explore have been actively going after professors and forcing them to take down links to their own papers. In the past, many professors hosted pdf&amp;#x27;s on their websites for their papers -- this has only stopped because IEEE has been forcing them off.  Just wanted to add this for those who think professors have &amp;#x27;suddenly become stingy&amp;#x27; -- no, they aren&amp;#x27;t - they were forced to.</text></comment>
<story><title>Elsevier Complaint Shuts Down Sci-Hub Domain Name</title><url>https://torrentfreak.com/elsevier-complaint-shuts-down-sci-hub-domain-name-160504/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>chias</author><text>I feel a little tingle of excitement seeing my own papers on Sci-Hub. I mean I get that they&amp;#x27;re trying to index &lt;i&gt;all&lt;/i&gt; publications so it&amp;#x27;s not a &amp;quot;stamp or approval&amp;quot; or anything... but it does mean that people can actually access the knowledge I tried to throw into the world, which was kind of the whole point in doing it.&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;d update my academic website to link my papers to their sci-hub URLs if I didn&amp;#x27;t think I&amp;#x27;d catch a world of flak for it.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>dougmccune</author><text>I&amp;#x27;m genuinely curious who you think would give you flak. Publishers? Your department faculty? The librarian at your university? Your peers?&lt;p&gt;(reason I&amp;#x27;m interested: I&amp;#x27;m on the board of Sage and have a board meeting tomorrow where I hope we&amp;#x27;ll be discussing sci-hub)</text></comment>