Hello,
We have recently been getting reports from staff and students being unable to open any PDF documents from ScienceDirect.
We are still trying to collect more details about this, but in general it appears to be happening on Windows computers in Internet Explorer using the Adobe plugin. In general, right clicking the PDF link and using the save as option works, but there are some rumours that even this fails in some cases.
It looks as though some other Universities have already started alerting their students to this (e.g. University of Buffalo: http://libweb.lib.buffalo.edu/blog/alerts/ ) so is this now an official problem? We have heard nothing from Elsevier on this issue ourselves.
Is anyone else experiencing this issue too?
Thanks
Ben Elwell
University of Wolverhampton
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