# Summary of IRC Log - April 9, 2011

The IRC log from #hplusroadmap on April 9, 2011 contained minimal substantive discussion, but did include:

* A user shared a script (https://gist.github.com/472ab79096be04ca6056) for downloading academic papers from Elsevier journals, demonstrating ongoing efforts within the community to liberate scientific knowledge.

* There was discussion about downloading Tetrahedron Letters journal articles, with one user mentioning that a tar.gz archive would be ready by the next day.

* A user shared a Wikipedia graph showing the dramatic rise in US incarceration rates over time (http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/54/US_incarceration_timeline-clean.svg/693px-US_incarceration_timeline-clean.svg.png).

* The community appeared to be engaged in systematic collection and archiving of scientific literature, with mentions of Library Genesis as a repository accepting donations of academic papers.

* There was brief mention of challenges in accessing papers behind paywalls, with one user noting that "not all elsevier journals on sciencedirect link to the pdf from the article's page" and that there's "usually an intermediate popup just to fuck with people like us."