Library Genesis

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

Literature

• Guillaume Cabanac, "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, "The Rise of Pirate Libraries", Atlas Obscura, 21 Apr 2016.
• Balázs Bodó, "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. [1]
• Balázs Bodó, "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. [2]

Links

• http://gen.lib.rus.ec/
• http://libgen.io/
• http://b-ok.org/
• http://bookfi.net/