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
- 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-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/.
Torrent structure
Scimag torrents
Each torrent contains 100 ZIP files, each with 1000 PDFs distributed in directories by their DOI prefix, like:
Archive: 66400000/libgen.scimag66499000-66499999.zip Length Date Time Name --------- ---------- ----- ---- 6459290 09-18-2017 07:35 10.1109/cybconf.2017.7985822.pdf 631217 09-17-2017 12:01 10.1109/dt.2017.8024325.pdf ... 1047522 09-17-2017 12:02 10.1111/1365-2435.12984.pdf 313688 09-18-2017 07:36 10.1111/1365-2478.12569.pdf 4475172 09-17-2017 08:57 10.1111/1365-2656.12756.pdf 630038 09-16-2017 12:00 10.11120/ened.2013.00008.pdf ... 362678 09-17-2017 12:01 10.11124/JBISRIR-2016-2538.pdf 286640 09-18-2017 07:32 10.1112/jlms%2Fjdw055.pdf 613931 09-16-2017 11:59 10.1112/topo.12000.pdf 176652 09-17-2017 08:58 10.1113/EP086344.pdf 1624320 09-18-2017 07:31 10.1113/JP274736.pdf 1325647 09-18-2017 07:32 10.1113/JP274837.pdf 101628 09-16-2017 12:16 10.1113/JP275085.pdf 472949 09-18-2017 07:35 10.1113/JP275114.pdf 475696 09-16-2017 12:03 10.1113/JP275171.pdf 36566 09-16-2017 12:14 10.1115/1.1410937.pdf ... --------- ------- 972242341 1000 files
Mirrors
There are various unofficial 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