Sci-Hub has also been accessible at times by directly entering the IP address, or through a .onion Tor Hidden Service.
(meta data) TITLE: Fast and Furious (at Publishers): The Motivations behind Crowdsourced Research Sharing | Gardner | College & Research Libraries (meta data) AUTHOR: Gabriel J. Gardner MAIN MENU College & Research Libraries (C&RL) is the official, bi-monthly, online-only scholarly research journal ofthe Association of College & Research Libraries, a division of the American Library Association. Article Tools Print this article Indexing metadata How to cite item C&RL News ALA JobLIST About ACRL Advertising Information Most Popular Most Popular articles Home > Vol 78, No 2 (2017) > Gardner ### Fast and Furious (at Publishers): The Motivations behind Crowdsourced Research Sharing Carolyn Caffrey Gardner, Gabriel J. Gardner #### Abstract Crowdsourced research sharing takes place across social media platforms including Twitter hashtags such as #icanhazpdf, Reddit Scholar, and Facebook. This study surveys users of these peer-to-peer exchanges on demographic information, frequency of use, and their motivations in both providing and obtaining scholarly information on these platforms. Respondents also provided their perspectives on the database terms of service and/or copyright violations in these exchanges. Findings indicate that the motivations of this community are utilitarian or ideological in nature, similar to other peer-to-peer file sharing online. Implications for library services including instruction, outreach, and interlibrary loan are discussed. #### Full Text: DOI: https://doi.org/10.5860/crl.78.2.16578 Copyright Carolyn Caffrey Gardner, Gabriel J. 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Site list provided by The GDELT Project The Wayback Machine - https://web.archive.org/web/20170909231538/https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2016/05/piracy-site-for-academic-journals-playing-game-of-domain-name-whac-a-mole/ Biz & IT Gaming & Culture ### Navigate Ars Approved RSS Feeds Mobile Site About Ars Staff Directory Contact Us Advertise with Ars ### Filter by topic Biz & IT Gaming & Culture ### Settings Front page layout Site theme Black on white White on black Sign in ### Comment activity Sign up or login to join the discussions! Stay logged in | Having trouble? Sign up to comment and more Sign up Ars Technica UK #### Game of domains — # Piracy site for academic journals playing game of domain-name Whac-A-Mole ## Just like The Pirate Bay, Sci-Hub is domain hopping to beat takedown court orders. David Kravets - May 5, 2016 9:40 pm UTC Alexandra Elbakyan won't let her Sci-Hub pirate site of academic journals die— despite publisher Elsevier's lawsuit. Courtesy of Alexandra Elbakyan We reported a few weeks ago on a popular pirate site for science journals whose oversees admin was being sued by one of the world's leading academic publishers, Elsevier. Elsevier is the same New York publisher that the late Aaron Swartz had noted in his "Guerilla Open Access Manifesto" that told academics and researchers they had a "duty" to free the knowledge they were privileged to read behind Elsevier's paywall. Because of the lawsuit, which Sci-Hub founder Alexandra Elbakyan has refused to participate in, she's been engaged in a game of domain-name Whac-A-Mole in response to Elsevier winning court orders demanding the shuttering of the popular site's domain name. The site allows anybody, not just academics, to access tens of millions of scholastic research articles for free. When Ars interviewed Elbakyan and learned that she had a similar philosophy to Swartz, she had already altered the site's domain from sci-hub.org to sci-hub.io and changed others because of a court order blocking the .org domain. Now that domain, registered with Chinese registrar Now.cn, has also been killed. That has forced the site to move to sci-hub.bz and sci-hub.cc. This cat-and-mouse domain game is reminiscent of the decade-long game the admins of The Pirate Bay have been playing. When one domain gets lost to a court order, the site springs up on another. Elbakyan, a 27-year-old bioengineer turned Web programmer from Kazakhstan who is living in Russia, told Ars in an e-mail that the sci-hub.io domain "was disabled due to a complaint from Elsevier." Elsevier declined comment other than to say that it is sticking by its lawsuit. Elsevier's Science Direct catalogue is behind a paywall at many universities. The publisher isn't happy about the Sci-Hub site and its domain hopping, calling it "an international network of piracy (PDF) and copyright infringement by circumventing legal and authorized means of access to the ScienceDirect database. Defendants' piracy is supported by the persistent intrusion and unauthorized access to the computer networks of Elsevier and its institutional subscribers...." TorrentFreak notes that Sci-Hub users may also access the site through the "IP-address 31.184.194.81, or its domain on the Tor-network, which is pretty much immune to any takedown efforts." ### Ars Science Video > ## Ars Visits a Lava Demonstration Hot lava flows in a parking lot—in upstate NY David Kravets The senior editor for Ars Technica. Founder of TYDN fake news site. Technologist. Political scientist. Humorist. Dad of two boys. Been doing journalism for so long I remember manual typewriters with real paper.
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The judgment also granted the injunction, which led to the loss of the original sci-hub.org domain. 
 In early 2016, data released by Elbakyan showed usage in developed countries was high, with a large proportion of the downloads coming from the US and countries within the European Union. 
 In June 2017, the American Chemical Society (ACS) filed a lawsuit against Sci-Hub in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia, alleging copyright and trademark infringement; it sought judgment US$4.8 million from Sci-Hub in damages, and Internet service provider blocking of the Sci-Hub website. On 6 November 2017, the ACS was granted a default judgment, and a permanent injunction was granted against all parties in active concert or participation with Sci-Hub that has notice of the injunction, "including any Internet search engines, web hosting and Internet service providers, domain name registrars, and domain name registries", to cease facilitating access to the service. On 23 November 2017, four Sci-Hub domains had been rendered inactive by the court order and its CloudFlare account was terminated. 
 Sci-Hub has since cycled through domain names, some of which have been blocked by domain registry operators. Sci-Hub remained reachable via alternative domains such as .io,, then .cc, and .bz.