Library Genesis

Library Genesis
URL	http://libgen.io
Status	Online!
Archiving status	Partially saved, see below
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) [3]
• Foreign fiction
  • Non-Russian fiction.
  • Size: around 2TB
  • Count: 1892821 [4]
  • Last torrent: f_1890000.torrent (up to 1890999) [5]
• Scimag
  • Scientific papers.
  • Size: around 53TB [6]
  • Count: 66673389 [7]
  • Last torrent: sm_65900000-65999999.torrent [8]

Database dumps

Database dumps can be downloaded from:

• http://gen.lib.rus.ec/dbdumps/ - automatically generated
• http://libgen.io/dbdumps/ - manually generated

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

• http://libgen.io/libgen/repository_torrent/ - sci-tech, torrent
• http://libgen.io/foreignfiction/repository_torrent/ - foreign fiction, torrent
• http://libgen.io/scimag/repository_torrent/ - scimag, torrent
• http://libgen.io/libgen/repository_nzb/ - sci-tech, usenet

Sci-Hub

Sci-Hub stores papers in Library Genesis as secondary repository. The repository torrents can be downloaded from:
http://libgen.io/scimag/repository_torrent/
The database is available together with the others under /dbdumps/.

Mirrors

There are various inofficial mirrors of libgen, such as libgen.pw [9], BookFI [10], and B-OK [11].

Archival Status

Internet Archive has darked (hidden/unindexed) collections.

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