Library Genesis

<p>Library Genesis (shortened to LibGen) is a <a href="/facts/Shadow_library/j4DpJeq1">shadow library</a> project for <a href="/facts/File-sharing/7GISy0GJ">file-sharing</a> access to <a href="/facts/Scholarly_journal/SBI7Ue0q">scholarly journal</a> articles, academic and general-interest books, images, comics, audiobooks, and magazines. The site enables free access to content that is otherwise <a href="/facts/Paywall/42qFQy1U">paywalled</a> or not <a href="/facts/Digitized/RRdE9Ma9">digitized</a> elsewhere. LibGen describes itself as a "links aggregator", providing a searchable database of items "collected from publicly available public Internet resources" as well as files uploaded "from users". The URL libgen.is was down in January to March of 2025.
</p><p>LibGen provides access to copyrighted works, such as <a href="/facts/PDF/C9Mn1vYL">PDFs</a> of content from <a href="/facts/Elsevier/jkPSAEmR">Elsevier</a>'s <a href="/facts/ScienceDirect/KL3SFUzg">ScienceDirect</a> web-portal. Publishers like Elsevier have accused Library Genesis of <a href="/facts/Internet_piracy/7As1Mf68">internet piracy</a>. Others assert that academic publishers unfairly benefit from government-funded research, written by researchers, many of whom are employed by public universities, and that LibGen is helping to disseminate research that should be freely available in the first place.
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