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Library Genesis is a Russian project to create an online library of ebooks. They currently have about 2 million of them, totaling 26 TBs. The project is in blatant violation of copyright, and their domain name is blocked in some countries.
Library Genesis is a Russian project to create a free online library of ebooks. They currently have about 4 million of them. The project is in blatant violation of copyright, and their domain name is blocked in some countries.
 
== Collections ==
Libgen consists of 3 collections:
* Libgen (sci-tech)
** academic monographs, reference books, encyclopedias, conference proceedings, collected works, textbooks, or popular-level expositions on mathematics, science, engineering, medicine, linguistics, economics, history, philosophy, social sciences, and other academic disciplines
** books on contemporary topics that discuss controversial issues of contemporary society, politics, economics, history, etc.
** "Teach yourself woodworking" and other self-teaching books
** books about art or music, history or analysis of art [http://libgen.io/librarian/]
** Size: around 22TB
** Count: 2123003 [http://libgen.io/search.php?mode=last]
** Last torrent: r_2105000.torrent (up to 2105999)
* Foreign fiction
** Non-Russian fiction.
** Size: around 2TB
** Count: 1892821 [http://libgen.io/foreignfiction/index.php?last=&f_lang=All&page=1]
** Last torrent: f_1890000.torrent (up to 1890999)
* Scimag
** Scientific papers.
** Size: around 53TB [https://www.reddit.com/r/DHExchange/comments/5qilh7/h_w_libgen_aka_genesis_library/dgrlgry/]
** Count: 66673389 [http://libgen.io/scimag/index.php?last=]
** Last torrent: unknown


== Database dumps ==
== Database dumps ==
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* http://libgen.io/dbdumps/ - manually generated
* http://libgen.io/dbdumps/ - manually generated


The repository (the actual .pdf/.epub files) can be downloaded from:
The repository (the actual .pdf/.epub/.djvu files) can be downloaded from:
* http://libgen.io/libgen/repository_torrent/ - torrent
* http://libgen.io/libgen/repository_torrent/ - sci-tech, torrent
* http://libgen.io/libgen/repository_nzb/ - usenet
* http://libgen.io/foreignfiction/repository_torrent/ - foreign fiction, torrent
* http://libgen.io/libgen/repository_nzb/ - sci-tech, usenet


== Sci-Mag ==
== Sci-Mag ==
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There are various inofficial mirrors of libgen, such as libgen.pw [https://libgen.pw], BookFI [http://bookfi.net], and B-OK [http://b-ok.org].
There are various inofficial mirrors of libgen, such as libgen.pw [https://libgen.pw], BookFI [http://bookfi.net], and B-OK [http://b-ok.org].
== Archival Status ==
Internet Archive has darked (hidden/unindexed) collections.
* scimag: up to 64000000-64099999
* foreignfiction: up to 1600000
* libgen: up to 2092000

Revision as of 17:06, 7 October 2017

Library Genesis
URL [libgen.io gen.lib.rus.ec][IAWcite.todayMemWeb]
Status Online!
Archiving status Partially saved
Archiving type Unknown
IRC channel #archiveteam-bs (on hackint)

Library Genesis is a Russian project to create a free online library of ebooks. They currently have about 4 million of them. The project is in blatant violation of copyright, and their domain name is blocked in some countries.

Collections

Libgen consists of 3 collections:

  • Libgen (sci-tech)
    • academic monographs, reference books, encyclopedias, conference proceedings, collected works, textbooks, or popular-level expositions on mathematics, science, engineering, medicine, linguistics, economics, history, philosophy, social sciences, and other academic disciplines
    • books on contemporary topics that discuss controversial issues of contemporary society, politics, economics, history, etc.
    • "Teach yourself woodworking" and other self-teaching books
    • books about art or music, history or analysis of art [1]
    • Size: around 22TB
    • Count: 2123003 [2]
    • Last torrent: r_2105000.torrent (up to 2105999)
  • Foreign fiction
    • Non-Russian fiction.
    • Size: around 2TB
    • Count: 1892821 [3]
    • Last torrent: f_1890000.torrent (up to 1890999)
  • Scimag
    • Scientific papers.
    • Size: around 53TB [4]
    • Count: 66673389 [5]
    • Last torrent: unknown

Database dumps

Database dumps can be downloaded from:

The repository (the actual .pdf/.epub/.djvu files) can be downloaded from:

Sci-Mag

Sci-Mag uses Library Genesis as back-end storage. The repository torrents can be downloaded from:
http://libgen.io/scimag/repository_torrent_notforall/
The sci-mag database repository torrents are currently unavailable.
The database is available together with the others under /dbdumps/.

Mirrors

There are various inofficial mirrors of libgen, such as libgen.pw [6], BookFI [7], and B-OK [8].

Archival Status

Internet Archive has darked (hidden/unindexed) collections.

  • scimag: up to 64000000-64099999
  • foreignfiction: up to 1600000
  • libgen: up to 2092000