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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 June 2018) Library Genesis states that its database contains more than 2.7 million books and 58 million science magazine files.[9]
See also
- Library.nu
- ICanHazPDF
- Sci-Hub
- Guerilla Open Access Manifesto
References
- ↑ On the LibGen homepage hover over topics. (http://libgen.io/#)
- ↑ Cabanac, Guillaume (April 2015). "Bibliogifts in LibGen? A study of a text-sharing platform driven by biblioleaks and crowdsourcing". Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology 67 (4): 874–884. doi:10.1002/asi.23445. http://www.irit.fr/publis/SIG/2015_JASIST_C.pdf. Retrieved 28 November 2015.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 3.4 Glance, David. "Elsevier acts against research article pirate sites and claims irreparable harm". https://theconversation.com/elsevier-acts-against-research-article-pirate-sites-and-claims-irreparable-harm-43293. Retrieved 2015-10-05.
- ↑ Mance, Henry; Correspondent, Media (2015-05-26). "Publishers win landmark case against ebook pirates". Financial Times. ISSN 0307-1766. http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/988850e0-038c-11e5-a70f-00144feabdc0.html.
- ↑ "UK ISPs must block ebook pirate sites (Wired UK)". Wired UK. 2015-05-27. https://www.wired.co.uk/article/high-court-blocks-pirate-ebook-sites. Retrieved 2017-08-18.
- ↑ "Court Orders Shutdown of Libgen, Bookfi and Sci-Hub - TorrentFreak". 2 November 2015. https://torrentfreak.com/court-orders-shutdown-of-libgen-bookfi-and-sci-hub-151102/. Retrieved 2017-08-18.
- ↑ Schiermeier, Quirin (2015). "Pirate research-paper sites play hide-and-seek with publishers". Nature. doi:10.1038/nature.2015.18876. https://www.nature.com/news/pirate-research-paper-sites-play-hide-and-seek-with-publishers-1.18876. Retrieved 2015-12-06.
- ↑ "Sci-hub, bookfi and libgen resurface after being shut down". TorrentFreak. 21 November 2015. https://torrentfreak.com/sci-hub-and-libgen-resurface-after-being-shut-down-151121/. Retrieved 7 January 2016.
- ↑ "LibGen.pw Home Page". Library Genesis. https://libgen.pw/.
External links
- Official website mirror
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- Kaveh Waddell: The Research Pirates of the Dark Web. The Atlantic, February 9, 2016
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