Library Genesis

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Website libgen.io
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Library Genesis or LibGen is a search engine for scientific articles and books, which allows free access to otherwise paywalled content.[1] Among others it carries PDFs of content from Elsevier's ScienceDirect web-portal.[2]

In 2015, the website became involved in a legal case between it and Elsevier where it is accused of providing pirate access to articles and books.[2] LibGen is reported to be registered in both Russia and Amsterdam, making it unclear which legislation applies,[2][3] and whether defendants will show up in a United States court hearing.[2] LibGen is blocked by a number of ISPs in the United Kingdom,[4] but such DNS-based blocks are claimed to do little to deter access.[2] In late October 2015, a New York district court ordered LibGen to shut down and to suspend use of the domain name (libgen.org),[5] but the site is accessible through alternate domains.[6][7]

As of July 2016, the database contains more than 52 million articles from about 50,000 publications.[8]

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  1. ^ 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. 
  2. ^ a b c d e Glance, David. "Elsevier acts against research article pirate sites and claims irreparable harm". Retrieved 2015-10-05. 
  3. ^ Mance, Henry; Correspondent, Media (2015-05-26). "Publishers win landmark case against ebook pirates". Financial Times. ISSN 0307-1766. Retrieved 2015-10-05. 
  4. ^ "UK ISPs must block ebook pirate sites (Wired UK)". Retrieved 2015-10-05. 
  5. ^ Court Orders Shutdown of Libgen, Bookfi and Sci-Hub November 2, 2015. Retrieved November 5, 2015.
  6. ^ "Pirate research-paper sites play hide-and-seek with publishers". Nature News & Comment. Retrieved 2015-12-06. 
  7. ^ "Sci-hub, bookfi and libgen resurface after being shut down". TorrentFreak. 21 November 2015. Retrieved 7 January 2016. 
  8. ^ journalid 50000

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