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Dr. Mushtaq Bilal PhD posts a link to sci-bot.ru, a site that automates fetching scientific papers. It appears intended as a mirror or tool for open-access research retrieval.
- A tweet from Mushtaq Bilal links to sci-bot.ru, a tool claiming to bypass paywalls via automated crawlers and Telegram bots.
- The site reportedly pulls PDFs from library subscriptions, preprints, and mirrors using a DOI or title search.
- It claims roughly 500,000 downloads in the past month, concentrated in India, Brazil, and Russia.
- Publishers have issued DMCA takedowns, but the site reportedly evades them by spinning up new mirrors.