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Comment author: jsalvatier 21 September 2012 07:27:58AM 1 point [-]

I'm a little confused. The first two links redirect to books.google.com for me. Is that cause I'm in the US? What's the best way to read more about Library Genesis?

Sci-hub.org redirects to myescience.org, is that correct?

Comment author: VincentYu 24 September 2012 09:03:26PM 3 points [-]

o_O Huh. No, I did not anticipate these redirects for the first and third links...

I just found the reason on their forum (can you access this?):

the USA were blocked from access, because it is the only source of copyright abuses. They want it shut, they'll see it shut.

Looks like they want to remain obscure, at least in the US:

search google with double quotes "tra.yvo.ehf.rp" [rot13ed] and find all unique messages that discuss LG in the most open places (harvested by google crawlers often). Try to contact authors of the messages and kindly ask them to remove any mentioning of LG from the postings.

Here is the current list of mirrors (rot13ed); I'm pretty sure the 4th and 5th work in the US:

  • yvotra.bet
  • tra.yvo.ehf.rp
  • obbxsv.bet
  • jjj.yvotra.vasb
  • yvotra.vasb (guvf vf nccneragyl ba n qvssrerag freire guna jjj.yvotra.vasb)
  • jjj.yvotra.arg (guvf frrzf gb unir gur fnzr VC nf jjj.yvotra.vasb)
  • iahxv.bet
  • obbxbf.bet
  • h76i7un6w4wzgm3x2yfrnfb5dl36ykf77xyubizcghsjpbqbingd.o32.v2c/ (guebhtu V2C)

Their IP filter list for yvotra.bet must not be very good because I can access it through my Rochester VPN (I'm in the UK right now).

Yeah, it seems like Fpv-Uho redirects to myescience.org in the US, but that's not the correct site. The site that I see looks like this: imgur.com/XpVa3. I suppose people in the US will need a VPN or proxy to access it. Maybe try the free proxies on proxy.org? (I've been using this paid VPN service for ~1 year without issues, but there are plenty of other commercial alternatives.)

Comment author: jsalvatier 24 September 2012 09:17:41PM 0 points [-]

Very interesting. Have you found this site pretty useful above and beyond what your university gives you?

Comment author: VincentYu 24 September 2012 09:27:33PM 2 points [-]

Fpv-Uho is occasionally useful for me. E.g., I was actually unable to access this paper that Gwern requested below through any of my three university VPNs (Rochester, Oxford, Chinese University of Hong Kong), but I managed to grab it off one of the library proxies through Fpv-Uho.

(Yvoenel Trarfvf is obviously useful for anyone who wants to download books.)

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