[Eril-l] [External] Re: Taylor & Francis blocking IP addresses due to excessive use

[Dave Fowler]

Although I have not heard of any issues with Zotero and T&F, we did have an issue last year with the Zotero config messing with our access to Swank films.

Dave


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Subject: Re: [Eril-l] [External] Re: Taylor & Francis blocking IP addresses due to excessive use

We experienced this last week as well at Acadia in Eastern Canada, not sure why.

Jen

On Jan 23, 2023, at 4:31 PM, Martincik, Lisa L <lisa-martincik at uiowa.edu> wrote:


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Hello,



Same here. Only two cases so far, and we don’t know the browser, but they both seemed connected to Zotero and a malformed proxy setting. Glad to hear we aren’t alone if not glad to hear its happening.



Cheers,

Lisa

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Electronic Resources Librarian

University of Iowa

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Hello Kenyon -



Yes, we've experienced the same thing. We've had a number of reports of on-campus IP addresses being blocked. We're still trying to figure out what the cause was/is.



I'm happy to know we're not alone!



Sara K Hills

Electronic Resources and Serials Librarian

Interim Head of Acquisitions and Resource Management

American University, Washington DC 20016

202-885-3203



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Subject: [Eril-l] Taylor & Francis blocking IP addresses due to excessive use



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Hello,



We received a few reports last week from Taylor & Francis that they had temporarily blocked one of our IP addresses because of excessive connection to Taylor & Francis Online (tandfonline.com<https://urldefense.com/v3/__http:/tandfonline.com__;!!IaT_gp1N!wSm7aYZLkckv-8S1C-SYwjntc5qMzp8ODu3z8wutJm7cSZGTO_AYW6G5VUdGKWibs7S8xyLzjwiA4eHfEuc$>). The activity occurs over a period of one or two minutes and involves dozens of connections to only 1 or 2 pages. The block seems to occur after 100 total connection attempts.



Our IT group investigated and suggested the activity could be due to a buggy browser. We've contacted a few users and they mentioned they were using Chrome and Zotero.



Has anyone else experienced similar issues with Taylor & Francis Online or with Chrome or Zotero? If yes, do you have any suggestions on what we can do or should investigate?



Thank you,



Kenyon Stuart

Electronic Resource Management Unit

320 Harlan Hatcher Graduate Library

University of Michigan

Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109-1190 USA

email: kstuart at umich.edu
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