> an effort by some of the "ebookers" to plant proxies in various universities' networks that would perform much the same function Yep they did that, it's call

> an effort by some of the "ebookers" to plant proxies in various universities' networks that would perform much the same function Yep they did that, it's called ezproxy. https://github.com/kanzure/ezproxy-urls/blob/master/urls.txt https://github.com/kanzure/ezproxy-urls/blob/master/urls.txt scihub uses this AFAIK.