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A digital library established on 11 March 2008.
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'''Library Genesis''' (LibGen) is a digital library established on 11 March 2008.
  
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==Literature==
* Bodó Balázs, [http://ssrn.com/abstract=2616631 "A Short History of the Russian Digital Shadow Libraries"], 4 Nov 2014.
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* [http://custodians.online/ "In solidarity with Library Genesis and Sci-Hub"], 30 Nov 2015. Open letter.  
* Bodó Balázs, [http://ssrn.com/abstract=2616633 "In the Shadow of the Gigapedia: The Analysis of Supply and Demand for the Biggest Pirate Library on Earth"], in ''Shadow Libraries'', ed. Joe Karaganis, (forthcoming). [http://www.warsystems.hu/2014/11/24/bodo-b-forthcomingin-the-shadow-of-gigapedia-quantitative-analysis-of-shadow-library-usage-in-karaganis-ed-shadow-libraries/]
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** [http://monoskop.org/log/?p=15700 translations].
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* Guillaume Cabanac, [http://sci-hub.st/10.1002/asi.23445 "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, 2015, pp 874-884.
 
* Sarah Laskow, [http://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/the-rise-of-illegal-pirate-libraries "The Rise of Pirate Libraries"], ''Atlas Obscura'', 21 Apr 2016.
 
* Sarah Laskow, [http://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/the-rise-of-illegal-pirate-libraries "The Rise of Pirate Libraries"], ''Atlas Obscura'', 21 Apr 2016.
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* Balázs Bodó, [https://monoskop.org/images/f/f5/Karaganis_Joe_ed_Shadow_Libraries_Access_to_Knowledge_in_Global_Higher_Education_2018.pdf#page=33 "The Genesis of Library Genesis: The Birth of a Global Scholarly Shadow Library"], in ''Shadow Libraries: Access to Knowledge in Global Higher Education'', ed. Joe Karaganis, MIT Press, 2018, pp 25-51. [http://ssrn.com/abstract=2616631]
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* Balázs Bodó, [https://monoskop.org/images/f/f5/Karaganis_Joe_ed_Shadow_Libraries_Access_to_Knowledge_in_Global_Higher_Education_2018.pdf#page=61 "Library Genesis in Numbers: Mapping the Underground Flow of Knowledge"], in ''Shadow Libraries: Access to Knowledge in Global Higher Education'', ed. Joe Karaganis, MIT Press, 2018, pp 53-77. [http://ssrn.com/abstract=2616633]
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* Andy Maxwell, [https://torrentfreak.com/meet-the-guy-behind-the-libgen-torrent-seeding-movement-191205/ "Meet the Guy Behind the Libgen Torrent Seeding Movement"], ''TorrentFreak'', 5 Dec 2019.
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* Roberto Cruz Arzabal, [https://monoskop.org/images/b/b0/Angel_Reyes_Johanna_C_Buj_Joseba_coord_Exclusion_y_deriva_Dinamicas_fronterizas_de_la_digitalidad_2020.pdf#page=163 "La piratería como forma imposible: circulación y estratificación de la teoría contemporánea"], in ''Exclusión y deriva: dinámicas fronterizas de la digitalidad'', eds. Johanna C. Ángel Reyes and Joseba Buj, Mexico City: Universidad Iberoamericana Ciudad de México, Jan 2020, pp 163-186. {{es}}
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* Balázs Bodó, Dániel Antal, Zoltán Puha, [https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0242509 "Can scholarly pirate libraries bridge the knowledge access gap? An empirical study on the structural conditions of book piracy in global and European academia"], ''PLoS ONE'' 15:12, Dec 2020.
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* Bella Ostromooukhova, [https://dx.doi.org/10.5210/fm.v26i5.11715 "“Free libraries for the free people”: How mass-literature “shadow” libraries circumvent digital barriers and redefine legality in contemporary Russia"], ''First Monday'' 26:5, May 2021.
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* Martin Paul Eve, "Lessons from Library Genesis: Extreme Minimalist Scaling at Pirate Ebook Platforms", ''Digital Humanities Quarterly'' 16:1, 2022. [https://eprints.bbk.ac.uk/id/eprint/46280/]
  
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==Links==
* http://gen.lib.rus.ec/
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* https://libgen.rs, https://libgen.is, https://libgen.st
* http://libgen.io/
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* https://libgen.lc, https://libgen.li, https://libgen.gs, https://libgen.lc
* http://golibgen.io/
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* datasets, mirrors: https://annas-archive.org/datasets/libgen_rs, https://annas-archive.org/datasets/libgen_li
* http://bookzz.org/
 
* http://bookfi.net/
 
  
[[Category:Digital libraries]]
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[[Series:Shadow libraries]] [[Series:Digital libraries]]

Revision as of 07:11, 16 April 2024

Library Genesis (LibGen) is a digital library established on 11 March 2008.

Literature

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