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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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http://scihub22266oqcxt.onion/

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.

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

This is from Cambridge? Eduroam or uni ethernet?

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.

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

Loading fine from ox.ac.uk VPN

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

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

My university in Germany hasn't blocked them either.

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

Works from my university here in New Zealand.

Not blocked here in France.

sci-hub.cc works at the University of Denver

Edit: also accessible via eduroam at DU.

Can you submit a support ticket and find out why?

My university in the US has not blocked it either.

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

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.

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

Available at Cornell through Eduroam.

Works in Cambridge, MA.

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