American Chemical Society bans university after "spider-trap" is clicked
It's worth noting that many journals don't control the platform their scholarly content. It looks like ACS uses this [Atypon](<a href="http://www.atypon.com" rel="nofollow">http://www.atypon.com</a>). That's the likely source of this spider trap, not ACS.<p>Atypon has [a relatively small client list](<a href="http://www.atypon.com/our-clients/featured-clients.php" rel="nofollow">http://www.atypon.com/our-clients/featured-clients.php</a>). Compare it to [Highwire](<a href="http://highwire.stanford.edu/lists/allsites.dtl" rel="nofollow">http://highwire.stanford.edu/lists/allsites.dtl</a>). I'd be willing to bet that all journals hosted with Atypon share this spider trap—even journals that are supposed to be open access where spidering <i>should</i> be OK.<p>Scientific publishing is weird. Source: I work in scientific publishing.