Library Genesis

The Library Genesis Project
Web address libgen.io
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(for the gen.lib.rus.ec mirror)

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

In 2015, the website became involved in a legal case with Elsevier, which accused LibGen of providing access to articles and books that infringed copyrights.[2] LibGen is reported to be registered in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, and Russia, 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 suspend use of the domain name (libgen.org),[5] but the site is still accessible through alternative domains.[6][7]

See also

References

  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: n/a–n/a. doi:10.1002/asi.23445. Retrieved 28 November 2015.
  2. 1 2 3 4 5 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". torrentfreak.com. 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.
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