Library Genesis
Library Genesis | |
URL | http://libgen.io |
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) [3]
- Foreign fiction
- Scimag
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-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 [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