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by Liber-Abaci 2638 days ago
It's a proxy service that uses university credentials for access direct from the publisher(s) https://engineuring.wordpress.com/2017/07/02/some-facts-on-s...

I would assume graduate students around the world pass them to her to use and she just starts up a VPN to imitate the location of the university. That said it's not like these publishers are losing money, universities are still paying for the access like they always were. Plebs such as myself could always get a free copy of some paper by requesting a printout from the campus library just now I do it from my phone instead.