Library Genesis (English Wikipedia)

Analysis of information sources in references of the Wikipedia article "Library Genesis" in English language version.

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LibGen.lc

"LibGen.lc Home Page". LibGen.lc. Library Genesis. Archived from the original on 10 August 2019. Retrieved 28 July 2019.

agcom.it

Autorità per le Garanzie nelle Comunicazioni. "Delibera 178-18-CSP - Documento - AGCOM". www.agcom.it. Archived from the original on 8 January 2023. Retrieved 8 January 2023.

archive.today

Van der Sar, Ernesto (23 March 2024). "Dutch Court Orders ISP to Block 'Anna's Archive' and 'LibGen'". TorrentFreak. Archived from the original on 23 March 2024. Retrieved 23 March 2024.

arstechnica.com

Belanger, Ashley (26 September 2024). "Pirate library must pay publishers $30M, but no one knows who runs it". ArsTechnica. Retrieved 22 December 2024.

books.google.com

Bodó, Balázs (27 April 2018). Library Genesis in Numbers: Mapping the Underground Flow of Knowledge. MIT Press. ISBN 9780262345705. Archived from the original on 17 January 2023. Retrieved 1 November 2020.
Joe Karaganis (2018). Shadow Libraries: Access to Knowledge in Global Higher Education. MIT Press. p. 53. ISBN 978-0-262-34570-5. Archived from the original on 17 January 2023. Retrieved 10 May 2019.

britannica.com

"Samizdat | Dissident Press, Underground Publishing & Soviet Censorship". Britannica.

doi.org

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. S2CID 6643023. Archived (PDF) from the original on 2 May 2018. Retrieved 28 November 2015.
Bodó, Balázs (2014). "A Short History of the Russian Digital Shadow Libraries". SSRN Electronic Journal. doi:10.2139/ssrn.2616631. ISSN 1556-5068.
Schiermeier, Quirin (2015). "Pirate research-paper sites play hide-and-seek with publishers". Nature. doi:10.1038/nature.2015.18876. S2CID 188158277. Archived from the original on 7 August 2019. Retrieved 6 December 2015.
Himmelstein, Daniel S; Romero, Ariel Rodriguez; Levernier, Jacob G; Munro, Thomas Anthony; McLaughlin, Stephen Reid; Greshake Tzovaras, Bastian; Greene, Casey S (1 March 2018). "Sci-Hub provides access to nearly all scholarly literature". eLife. 7. doi:10.7554/eLife.32822. ISSN 2050-084X. PMC 5832410. PMID 29424689.

dx.doi.org

Bodó, Balázs (2014). "A Short History of the Russian Digital Shadow Libraries". SSRN Electronic Journal. doi:10.2139/ssrn.2616631. ISSN 1556-5068.

freeread.org

"IPFS Free Library". freeread.org. Archived from the original on 25 June 2021. Retrieved 5 July 2021.

ft.com

Mance, Henry (26 May 2015). "Publishers win landmark case against ebook pirates". Financial Times. ISSN 0307-1766. Archived from the original on 8 July 2015. Retrieved 5 October 2015.

irit.fr

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. S2CID 6643023. Archived (PDF) from the original on 2 May 2018. Retrieved 28 November 2015.

lecho.be

"Les éditeurs scientifiques se liguent contre la piraterie". L'Echo (in French). 16 October 2019. Archived from the original on 13 May 2021. Retrieved 14 January 2020.

libgen.me

"About Us". libgen.me. Archived from the original on 14 August 2019. 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.

nature.com

Schiermeier, Quirin (2015). "Pirate research-paper sites play hide-and-seek with publishers". Nature. doi:10.1038/nature.2015.18876. S2CID 188158277. Archived from the original on 7 August 2019. Retrieved 6 December 2015.

nextinpact.com

Rees, Marc (30 March 2019). "Les principaux FAI français doivent bloquer Sci-Hub et LibGen" [Main French ISPs must block Sci-Hub and LibGen]. Next INpact. Archived from the original on 3 April 2019. Retrieved 16 January 2020.

nih.gov

ncbi.nlm.nih.gov

Himmelstein, Daniel S; Romero, Ariel Rodriguez; Levernier, Jacob G; Munro, Thomas Anthony; McLaughlin, Stephen Reid; Greshake Tzovaras, Bastian; Greene, Casey S (1 March 2018). "Sci-Hub provides access to nearly all scholarly literature". eLife. 7. doi:10.7554/eLife.32822. ISSN 2050-084X. PMC 5832410. PMID 29424689.

pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov

Himmelstein, Daniel S; Romero, Ariel Rodriguez; Levernier, Jacob G; Munro, Thomas Anthony; McLaughlin, Stephen Reid; Greshake Tzovaras, Bastian; Greene, Casey S (1 March 2018). "Sci-Hub provides access to nearly all scholarly literature". eLife. 7. doi:10.7554/eLife.32822. ISSN 2050-084X. PMC 5832410. PMID 29424689.

open-slum.org

"SLUM: The Shadow Library Uptime Monitor". open-slum.org. Retrieved 24 March 2025.

opi.gr

"Decisions of the Committee - ΟΡΓΑΝΙΣΜΟΣ ΠΝΕΥΜΑΤΙΚΗΣ ΙΔΙΟΚΤΗΣΙΑΣ". opi.gr. Archived from the original on 13 May 2021. Retrieved 4 December 2019.

psu.edu

citeseerx.ist.psu.edu

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. S2CID 6643023. Archived (PDF) from the original on 2 May 2018. Retrieved 28 November 2015.

publishersweekly.com

The World's 57 Largest Book Publishers, 2015, Publishers Weekly, 26 June 2015, archived from the original on 30 June 2015.
Milliott, Jim; Wischenbart, Ruediger (17 October 2024), The 10 Largest Publishers in the World, Publishers Weekly, archived from the original on 25 November 2024

publishingstate.com

M., Zul (22 July 2023), 10 Largest Publishers in the World (2023), archived from the original on 3 August 2023

reason.com

Brown, Elizabeth Nolan (2022). "You Can't Stop Pirate Libraries". Reason. Archived from the original on 9 October 2022. Retrieved 9 October 2022.

reddit.com

"r/libgen FAQs".
shrine (7 February 2021). "Hey, shrine here. I made the original call to preserve Library Genesis because the project's simmering internal conflicts were coming to a head. The libgen.fun fork is the result of that conflict. You pose a good concern worth discussing openly". reddit. Archived from the original on 30 July 2021. Retrieved 30 July 2021.
"p2p Free Library: Help build humanity's free library on IPFS with Sci-Hub and Library Genesis". reddit. 14 October 2020. Archived from the original on 19 October 2020. Retrieved 23 October 2020.

semanticscholar.org

api.semanticscholar.org

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. S2CID 6643023. Archived (PDF) from the original on 2 May 2018. Retrieved 28 November 2015.
Schiermeier, Quirin (2015). "Pirate research-paper sites play hide-and-seek with publishers". Nature. doi:10.1038/nature.2015.18876. S2CID 188158277. Archived from the original on 7 August 2019. Retrieved 6 December 2015.

theatlantic.com

Reisner, Alex (20 March 2025). "The Unbelievable Scale of AI's Pirated-Books Problem". The Atlantic. Retrieved 25 March 2025.

theconversation.com

Glance, David (15 June 2015). "Elsevier acts against research article pirate sites and claims irreparable harm". The Conversation (U.S. edition). Archived from the original on 11 April 2020. Retrieved 6 April 2020.

torrentfreak.com

Van der Sar, Ernesto (14 August 2024), Popular Shadow Library ‘LibGen’ Breaks Down Amidst Legal Troubles, TorrentFreak, archived from the original on 14 August 2024
Van der Sar, Ernesto (22 December 2024), Domain Seizures and German ISP Blockade Add to Libgen's Troubles, TorrentFreak, archived from the original on 22 December 2024
Van der Sar, Ernesto (11 March 2021), ISPs and Rightsholders Unite to Block Pirate Sites in Germany, TorrentFreak, archived from the original on 19 December 2024
Van der Sar, Ernesto (9 June 2015), Elsevier Cracks Down on Pirated Scientific Articles, TorrentFreak, archived from the original on 9 June 2015
Van der Sar, Ernesto (22 June 2015), Libgen Goes Down As Legal Pressure Mounts, TorrentFreak, archived from the original on 23 June 2015
"Court Orders Shutdown of LibGen, Bookfi and Sci-Hub - TorrentFreak". TorrentFreak. 2 November 2015. Archived from the original on 4 May 2020. Retrieved 18 August 2017.
"Sci-hub, bookfi and libgen resurface after being shut down". TorrentFreak. 21 November 2015. Archived from the original on 4 May 2020. Retrieved 7 January 2016.
Maxwell, Andy (15 September 2023), Publishers’ Lawsuit Accuses Libgen of “Staggering” Copyright Infringement, TorrentFreak, archived from the original on 15 September 2023
Van der Sar, Ernesto (4 March 2024), Publishers Target LibGen Domains, IPFS Gateways, Plus $30m in Piracy Damages, TorrentFreak, archived from the original on 4 March 2024
Maxwell, Andy (8 August 2018). "Vodafone Blocks LibGen Following Elsevier, Springer & Macmillan Injunction". TorrentFreak. Archived from the original on 13 May 2021. Retrieved 22 December 2024.
"Denmark Blocks Sci-Hub Plus Streaming, Torrent & YouTube-Ripping Sites". TorrentFreak. 26 September 2019. Archived from the original on 13 May 2021. Retrieved 9 October 2019.
"Sci-Hub "Pirate Bay of Science" Blocked in Russia Over Medical Studies * TorrentFreak". 30 November 2018. Archived from the original on 5 December 2018. Retrieved 4 October 2021.
Van der Sar, Ernesto (23 March 2024). "Dutch Court Orders ISP to Block 'Anna's Archive' and 'LibGen'". TorrentFreak. Archived from the original on 23 March 2024. Retrieved 23 March 2024.
"Meet the Guy Behind the LibGen Torrent Seeding Movement * TorrentFreak". Archived from the original on 13 May 2021. Retrieved 23 October 2020.

vice.com

Gault, Matthew (2 December 2019). "Archivists Are Trying to Make Sure a 'Pirate Bay of Science' Never Goes Down". Vice. Archived from the original on 13 June 2021. Retrieved 23 October 2020.

washingtonpost.com

Karaganis, Joe; Bodo, Balazs (15 December 2020). "Russia is building a new Napster — but for academic research". Washington Post. Archived from the original on 15 December 2020. Retrieved 22 December 2024.

web.archive.org

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. S2CID 6643023. Archived (PDF) from the original on 2 May 2018. Retrieved 28 November 2015.
"About Us". libgen.me. Archived from the original on 14 August 2019. 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.
Glance, David (15 June 2015). "Elsevier acts against research article pirate sites and claims irreparable harm". The Conversation (U.S. edition). Archived from the original on 11 April 2020. Retrieved 6 April 2020.
Brown, Elizabeth Nolan (2022). "You Can't Stop Pirate Libraries". Reason. Archived from the original on 9 October 2022. Retrieved 9 October 2022.
Karaganis, Joe; Bodo, Balazs (15 December 2020). "Russia is building a new Napster — but for academic research". Washington Post. Archived from the original on 15 December 2020. Retrieved 22 December 2024.
Bodó, Balázs (27 April 2018). Library Genesis in Numbers: Mapping the Underground Flow of Knowledge. MIT Press. ISBN 9780262345705. Archived from the original on 17 January 2023. Retrieved 1 November 2020.
Joe Karaganis (2018). Shadow Libraries: Access to Knowledge in Global Higher Education. MIT Press. p. 53. ISBN 978-0-262-34570-5. Archived from the original on 17 January 2023. Retrieved 10 May 2019.
"LibGen.lc Home Page". LibGen.lc. Library Genesis. Archived from the original on 10 August 2019. Retrieved 28 July 2019.
shrine (7 February 2021). "Hey, shrine here. I made the original call to preserve Library Genesis because the project's simmering internal conflicts were coming to a head. The libgen.fun fork is the result of that conflict. You pose a good concern worth discussing openly". reddit. Archived from the original on 30 July 2021. Retrieved 30 July 2021.
Van der Sar, Ernesto (14 August 2024), Popular Shadow Library ‘LibGen’ Breaks Down Amidst Legal Troubles, TorrentFreak, archived from the original on 14 August 2024
Van der Sar, Ernesto (22 December 2024), Domain Seizures and German ISP Blockade Add to Libgen's Troubles, TorrentFreak, archived from the original on 22 December 2024
Van der Sar, Ernesto (11 March 2021), ISPs and Rightsholders Unite to Block Pirate Sites in Germany, TorrentFreak, archived from the original on 19 December 2024
The World's 57 Largest Book Publishers, 2015, Publishers Weekly, 26 June 2015, archived from the original on 30 June 2015.
Van der Sar, Ernesto (9 June 2015), Elsevier Cracks Down on Pirated Scientific Articles, TorrentFreak, archived from the original on 9 June 2015
Van der Sar, Ernesto (22 June 2015), Libgen Goes Down As Legal Pressure Mounts, TorrentFreak, archived from the original on 23 June 2015
"Court Orders Shutdown of LibGen, Bookfi and Sci-Hub - TorrentFreak". TorrentFreak. 2 November 2015. Archived from the original on 4 May 2020. Retrieved 18 August 2017.
Schiermeier, Quirin (2015). "Pirate research-paper sites play hide-and-seek with publishers". Nature. doi:10.1038/nature.2015.18876. S2CID 188158277. Archived from the original on 7 August 2019. Retrieved 6 December 2015.
"Sci-hub, bookfi and libgen resurface after being shut down". TorrentFreak. 21 November 2015. Archived from the original on 4 May 2020. Retrieved 7 January 2016.
Milliott, Jim; Wischenbart, Ruediger (17 October 2024), The 10 Largest Publishers in the World, Publishers Weekly, archived from the original on 25 November 2024
M., Zul (22 July 2023), 10 Largest Publishers in the World (2023), archived from the original on 3 August 2023
Maxwell, Andy (15 September 2023), Publishers’ Lawsuit Accuses Libgen of “Staggering” Copyright Infringement, TorrentFreak, archived from the original on 15 September 2023
Van der Sar, Ernesto (4 March 2024), Publishers Target LibGen Domains, IPFS Gateways, Plus $30m in Piracy Damages, TorrentFreak, archived from the original on 4 March 2024
Mance, Henry (26 May 2015). "Publishers win landmark case against ebook pirates". Financial Times. ISSN 0307-1766. Archived from the original on 8 July 2015. Retrieved 5 October 2015.
Kamen, Matt (27 May 2015). "UK ISPs must block ebook pirate sites (Wired UK)". Wired UK. Archived from the original on 7 August 2019. Retrieved 18 August 2017.
Rees, Marc (30 March 2019). "Les principaux FAI français doivent bloquer Sci-Hub et LibGen" [Main French ISPs must block Sci-Hub and LibGen]. Next INpact. Archived from the original on 3 April 2019. Retrieved 16 January 2020.
Maxwell, Andy (8 August 2018). "Vodafone Blocks LibGen Following Elsevier, Springer & Macmillan Injunction". TorrentFreak. Archived from the original on 13 May 2021. Retrieved 22 December 2024.
"Decisions of the Committee - ΟΡΓΑΝΙΣΜΟΣ ΠΝΕΥΜΑΤΙΚΗΣ ΙΔΙΟΚΤΗΣΙΑΣ". opi.gr. Archived from the original on 13 May 2021. Retrieved 4 December 2019.
Autorità per le Garanzie nelle Comunicazioni. "Delibera 178-18-CSP - Documento - AGCOM". www.agcom.it. Archived from the original on 8 January 2023. Retrieved 8 January 2023.
"Les éditeurs scientifiques se liguent contre la piraterie". L'Echo (in French). 16 October 2019. Archived from the original on 13 May 2021. Retrieved 14 January 2020.
"Denmark Blocks Sci-Hub Plus Streaming, Torrent & YouTube-Ripping Sites". TorrentFreak. 26 September 2019. Archived from the original on 13 May 2021. Retrieved 9 October 2019.
"Sci-Hub "Pirate Bay of Science" Blocked in Russia Over Medical Studies * TorrentFreak". 30 November 2018. Archived from the original on 5 December 2018. Retrieved 4 October 2021.
Gault, Matthew (2 December 2019). "Archivists Are Trying to Make Sure a 'Pirate Bay of Science' Never Goes Down". Vice. Archived from the original on 13 June 2021. Retrieved 23 October 2020.
"Meet the Guy Behind the LibGen Torrent Seeding Movement * TorrentFreak". Archived from the original on 13 May 2021. Retrieved 23 October 2020.
"IPFS Free Library". freeread.org. Archived from the original on 25 June 2021. Retrieved 5 July 2021.
"p2p Free Library: Help build humanity's free library on IPFS with Sci-Hub and Library Genesis". reddit. 14 October 2020. Archived from the original on 19 October 2020. Retrieved 23 October 2020.

wired.co.uk

Kamen, Matt (27 May 2015). "UK ISPs must block ebook pirate sites (Wired UK)". Wired UK. Archived from the original on 7 August 2019. Retrieved 18 August 2017.

wired.com

Knibbs, Kate. "Meta Secretly Trained Its AI on a Notorious Piracy Database, Newly Unredacted Court Docs Reveal". Wired. ISSN 1059-1028. Retrieved 21 March 2025.

worldcat.org

search.worldcat.org

Bodó, Balázs (2014). "A Short History of the Russian Digital Shadow Libraries". SSRN Electronic Journal. doi:10.2139/ssrn.2616631. ISSN 1556-5068.
Mance, Henry (26 May 2015). "Publishers win landmark case against ebook pirates". Financial Times. ISSN 0307-1766. Archived from the original on 8 July 2015. Retrieved 5 October 2015.
Knibbs, Kate. "Meta Secretly Trained Its AI on a Notorious Piracy Database, Newly Unredacted Court Docs Reveal". Wired. ISSN 1059-1028. Retrieved 21 March 2025.
Himmelstein, Daniel S; Romero, Ariel Rodriguez; Levernier, Jacob G; Munro, Thomas Anthony; McLaughlin, Stephen Reid; Greshake Tzovaras, Bastian; Greene, Casey S (1 March 2018). "Sci-Hub provides access to nearly all scholarly literature". eLife. 7. doi:10.7554/eLife.32822. ISSN 2050-084X. PMC 5832410. PMID 29424689.