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Library Genesis (Libgen) is a file-sharing website for scholarly journal articles, academic and general-interest books, images, comics, and magazines. In part, the site enables free access to content that is otherwise paywalled or not digitized elsewhere.[1] Libgen describes itself as a "links aggregator" providing a searchable database of articles, books, and images "collected from publicly available public Internet resources", as well as uploaded "items from users".[2]
Controversy surrounds the copyright status of many works accessible through this website. For example, Libgen provides access to PDFs of content from Elsevier's ScienceDirect web-portal. Some publishers like Elsevier have accused Library Genesis of providing pirate access to articles and books. In turn, others assert that academic publishers benefit from government-funded research, written by professors—many of whom are employed by public universities.[3]
Background
Started around 2008[4][5] by Russian scientists, it absorbed the contents of, and became the functional successor to, library.nu, which was shut down by legal action in 2012.[6]
Legal issues
In 2015, the website became involved in a legal case when Elsevier accused it of pirating and providing access to articles and books freely. In response, the admins accused Elsevier of gaining most of its profits from publicly funded research which should be freely available to all as they are paid for by taxpayers.[3] Libgen is reported to be registered in both Russia and Amsterdam, making the appropriate jurisdiction for legal action unclear.[3][7] Libgen is blocked by a number of ISPs in the United Kingdom,[8] but such DNS-based blocks are claimed to do little to deter access.[3] It is also blocked by ISPs in France,[9] Germany,[10] Greece,[11] Belgium (which redirects to the Belgian Federal Police blockpage),[12] and Russia.[13] 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),[14] but the site is accessible through alternate domains.[15][16]
Archives
Library Genesis grew rapidly by assimilating other entire libraries at a time.[4] By 2014, its catalog was more than twice the size of Library.nu with 1.2 million records.[4] As of 28 July 2019,[update] Library Genesis claims to have more than 2.4 million non-fiction books, 80 million science magazine articles, 2 million comics files, 2.2 million fiction books, and 0.4 million magazine issues.[17]
See also
References
- ^ 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 (4): 874–884. CiteSeerX 10.1.1.698.4283. doi:10.1002/asi.23445. Retrieved 28 November 2015.
- ^ "About Us". libgen.me. Retrieved 6 April 2020.
The libgen.me links aggregator is a community aiming at collecting and cataloging items descriptions for the most part of scientific, scientific and technical directions, as well as file metadata. In addition to the descriptions, the aggregator contains only links to third-party resources hosted by users. All information posted on the website is collected from publicly available public Internet resources and is intended solely for informational purposes.
- ^ a b c d Glance, David. "Elsevier acts against research article pirate sites and claims irreparable harm". The Conversation (U.S. edition). Retrieved 6 April 2020.
- ^ a b c Bodó, Balázs (2018-04-27). Library Genesis in Numbers: Mapping the Underground Flow of Knowledge. ISBN 9780262345705.
- ^ Joe Karaganis (2018). Shadow Libraries: Access to Knowledge in Global Higher Education. MIT Press. p. 53. ISBN 978-0-262-34570-5.
- ^ Bodó, Balázs (4 November 2014). "The Genesis of Library Genesis: The Birth of a Global Scholarly Shadow Library": 27. doi:10.2139/ssrn.2616631. SSRN 2616631.
{{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires|journal=(help) - ^ Mance, Henry; Correspondent, Media (2015-05-26). "Publishers win landmark case against ebook pirates". Financial Times. ISSN 0307-1766. Retrieved 2015-10-05.
{{cite news}}:|last2=has generic name (help) - ^ Kamen, Matt (2015-05-27). "UK ISPs must block ebook pirate sites (Wired UK)". Wired UK. Retrieved 2017-08-18.
- ^ Rees, Marc (2019-03-30). "Les principaux FAI français doivent bloquer Sci-Hub et Libgen" [Main French ISPs must block Sci-Hub and Libgen]. Next INpact. Retrieved 2020-01-16.
{{cite news}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link) - ^ "Vodafone Blocks Libgen Following Elsevier, Springer & Macmillan Injunction". TorrentFreak. 2018-08-08. Retrieved 2020-01-16.
{{cite news}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link) - ^ "Decisions of the Committee - ΟΡΓΑΝΙΣΜΟΣ ΠΝΕΥΜΑΤΙΚΗΣ ΙΔΙΟΚΤΗΣΙΑΣ". opi.gr. Retrieved 2019-12-04.
- ^ "Les éditeurs scientifiques se liguent contre la piraterie". L'Echo (in French). 2019-10-16. Retrieved 2020-01-14.
- ^ "Denmark Blocks Sci-Hub Plus Streaming, Torrent & YouTube-Ripping Sites". TorrentFreak. 2019-09-26. Retrieved 2019-10-09.
- ^ "Court Orders Shutdown of Libgen, Bookfi and Sci-Hub - TorrentFreak". TorrentFreak. 2 November 2015. Retrieved 2017-08-18.
- ^ Schiermeier, Quirin (2015). "Pirate research-paper sites play hide-and-seek with publishers". Nature. doi:10.1038/nature.2015.18876. Retrieved 2015-12-06.
- ^ "Sci-hub, bookfi and libgen resurface after being shut down". TorrentFreak. 21 November 2015. Retrieved 7 January 2016.
- ^ "Libgen.lc Home Page". Libgen.lc. Library Genesis. Archived from the original on 2019-08-10. Retrieved 2019-07-28.
External links
- Official website
- Official website mirror
- Karaganis, Joe; Bodo, Balazs. "Analysis | Russia is building a new Napster — but for academic research". Washington Post. Retrieved 2019-10-09.
