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from the whac-a-mole-continues dept.

TechDirt reports [techdirt.com]

Sci-Hub [is] the search engine for academic papers that includes a few tricks to access more paywalled academic papers for free, using the academic logins that have been shared with the site for the sake of retrieving more research. Academic journal publishing giant Elsevier has been waging a war with the site, first getting an injunction [techdirt.com] against its original domain back in December, only to have it quickly pop up elsewhere.

[...]Now, Sci-Hub has announced [twitter.com] that it's available via the popular messaging app Telegram as well.

[...]From the looks of it, you can just send it a message with the title you want, and it sends you back a download link--within seconds. From a researcher's standpoint, this seems like it must be quite handy, and certainly again feels a lot like the fairly standard #icanhazpdf [techdirt.com] process used on social media by academics all the time. Just a little more automated.

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