Library Genesis

The Library Genesis Project
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Library Genesis or LibGen is a search engine for articles and books on various topics,[1] which allows free access to content that is otherwise paywalled or not digitized elsewhere.[2] Among others, it carries PDFs of content from Elsevier's ScienceDirect web-portal.[3]

In 2015, the website became involved in a legal case when Elsevier accused it of providing pirate access to articles and books.[3] LibGen is reported to be registered in both Russia and Amsterdam, making it unclear which legislation applies,[3][4] and whether defendants will show up in a United States court hearing.[3] LibGen is blocked by a number of ISPs in the United Kingdom,[5] but such DNS-based blocks are claimed to do little to deter access.[3] In late October 2015, the District Court for the Southern District of New York ordered LibGen to shut down and to suspend use of the domain name (libgen.org),[6] but the site is accessible through alternate domains.[7][8]

As of 5 June 2018, Library Genesis states that its database contains more than 2.7 million books and 58 million science magazine files.[9]

See also

References

  1. ↑ On the LibGen homepage hover over topics. (http://libgen.io/#)
  2. ↑ Cabanac, Guillaume (April 2015). "Bibliogifts in LibGen? A study of a text-sharing platform driven by biblioleaks and crowdsourcing" (PDF). Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology. 67: 874–884. doi:10.1002/asi.23445. Retrieved 28 November 2015.
  3. 1 2 3 4 5 Glance, David. "Elsevier acts against research article pirate sites and claims irreparable harm". Retrieved 2015-10-05.
  4. ↑ Mance, Henry; Correspondent, Media (2015-05-26). "Publishers win landmark case against ebook pirates". Financial Times. ISSN 0307-1766. Retrieved 2015-10-05.
  5. ↑ "UK ISPs must block ebook pirate sites (Wired UK)". Retrieved 2017-08-18.
  6. ↑ "Court Orders Shutdown of Libgen, Bookfi and Sci-Hub - TorrentFreak". TorrentFreak. 2 November 2015. Retrieved 2017-08-18.
  7. ↑ "Pirate research-paper sites play hide-and-seek with publishers". Nature News & Comment. Retrieved 2015-12-06.
  8. ↑ "Sci-hub, bookfi and libgen resurface after being shut down". TorrentFreak. 21 November 2015. Retrieved 7 January 2016.
  9. ↑ "LibGen.pw Home Page". LibGen.pw. Library Genesis. Archived from the original on 5 June 2018. Retrieved 4 June 2018.
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