The Library Genesis ProjectAvailable in| English, Russian | Website| * gen.lib.rus.ec * libgen.pw * libgen.io Alexa rank| * 1,232 Global gen.lib.rus.ec * 4,094 Global libgen.pw * 1,258 Global libgen.io Commercial| No IP address| 93.174.95.27 Part of a series on File sharing Technologies * File hosting services * Online video platform * Peer to peer * Usenet * Web hosting * WebRTC * XDCC Video sharing sites * 123Movies * Dailymotion * Putlocker * YouTube BitTorrent sites * 1337x * Demonoid * ExtraTorrent * EZTV * isoHunt * KickassTorrents * Nyaa Torrents * RARBG * Tamil Rockers * The Pirate Bay * YIFY Academic/scholarly * ICanHazPDF * Internet Archive * Library Genesis * Sci-Hub File sharing networks * BitTorrent * Direct Connect * eDonkey * Freenet * Gnutella * Gnutella2 * I2P * list * OpenNap * WebTorrent P2P clients * BitComet * DC++ * Deluge * eMule * μTorrent * qBittorrent * Shareaza * Soulseek * Transmission * Tribler * Vuze * WinMX Streaming programs * Butter Project * Kodi * Popcorn Time * Torrents-Time Anonymous file sharing * Anonymous P2P * Darknet * Friend-to-friend * Private P2P * Proxy server * Seedbox * VPN Development and societal aspects * Timeline * Legality * BitTorrent issues By country or region * Canada * Japan * Singapore * UK * US Comparisons * Comparison of BitTorrent clients * Comparison of BitTorrent sites * Comparison of eDonkey software * Comparison of Internet Relay Chat clients * Comparison of Usenet newsreaders * v * t * e 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 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". 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. ↑ 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. 4. ↑ 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. 5. ↑ "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. 6. ↑ "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. 7. ↑ 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. 8. ↑ "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. 9. ↑ "LibGen.pw Home Page". Library Genesis. https://libgen.pw/. ## External links * Official website mirror * {{Facebook}} template missing ID and not present in Wikidata. * Kaveh Waddell: The Research Pirates of the Dark Web. 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