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--></style></head><body lang="EN-US" link="#0563C1" vlink="#954F72"><div class="WordSection1"><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1f497d">We’ve had three or four reports of excessive downloading of ACS articles last week. One was a legitimate user who will stop collecting interesting articles beyond what can reasonably be read. The article count on that one wasn’t all that high and the articles were in fact on a related topic. I thought the “unreasonableness” of that session was debatable and said as much. The other’s accounts were hacked.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1f497d"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1f497d">We have worked out a solution when the proxy gets blocked of using our InCommon Federation Shibboleth setup. These were through the VPN, though. I don’t know who set it up, but we have that Shibboleth method in place for many major publishers and it is now promoted as a solution when the proxy gets cut off, and even when one user is experiencing access problems via an office IP. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1f497d"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1f497d">Mark</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1f497d"> </span></p><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1f497d">Mark Hemhauser</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="color:#222222">Head of Acquisitions, The Library</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="color:#222222">250 Moffitt Library, MC 6000</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="color:#222222">University of California, Berkeley</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="color:#222222">Berkeley, CA 94720-6000</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="color:#222222"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="color:#222222">510-664-4310</span></p></div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1f497d"> </span></p><div><div style="border:none;border-top:solid #b5c4df 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in"><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif""> Eril-l [mailto:<a href="mailto:eril-l-bounces@lists.eril-l.org">eril-l-bounces@lists.eril-l.org</a>] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Egan,Noelle<br><b>Sent:</b> Tuesday, June 07, 2016 1:19 PM<br><b>To:</b> <a href="mailto:eril-l@lists.eril-l.org">eril-l@lists.eril-l.org</a><br><b>Subject:</b> [Eril-l] American Chemical Society blocked IPs</span></p></div></div><p class="MsoNormal"> </p><p class="MsoNormal">Hi All,</p><p class="MsoNormal"> </p><p class="MsoNormal">Here at Drexel we had a hack of 4 users account on Sunday, and the accounts were used to download massive numbers of articles from ACS. ACS subsequently blocked our access through our EZProxy IP address. </p><p class="MsoNormal"> </p><p class="MsoNormal">I just got off the phone with Richard at ACS about this, who let me know that many universities had user accounts hacked in the same way, and this breach was affecting several other publishers as well. I was surprised I hadn’t seen any traffic about the issue on this listserv – has anyone else been blocked by ACS or another publisher in the last few days for excessive downloading? </p><p class="MsoNormal"> </p><p class="MsoNormal">FYI – ACS says they are not unblocking any IP addresses until they have the issue resolved, at which time they’ll email all their affected customers about reinstated access. </p><p class="MsoNormal"> </p><p class="MsoNormal">Thanks, Noelle</p><p class="MsoNormal"> </p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#003377">-------------------------------------------------------------------</span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#003377">Noelle Egan<br></span></b><i><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:black">eResources & Acquisitions Librarian</span></i><i><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black"></span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:black">Drexel University Libraries<i> </i></span><b><i><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black"><br></span></i></b><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#003377">Drexel University<br></span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:black">3300 Market Street<br>W. W. Hagerty Library<br>Philadelphia, PA 19104<br>Tel: 215.895.2752 | Fax: 215.895.2070<br><a href="http://www.library.drexel.edu/"><span style="color:blue">drexel.edu/library</span></a></span><span style="color:#1f497d"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"> </p></div></body></html>