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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 some users (UK) may have to access it using their IP, 93.174.95.27 (equivalent to libgen.io)
{{Infobox project
| title = Library Genesis
| URL = http://gen.lib.rus.ec
| project_status = {{online}}
| archiving_status = {{partial}}, see [[Library_Genesis#Archival_Status|below]]
}}
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 32TB
** Count: 2447977 [http://libgen.lc/stat.php]
** Last torrent: r_2105000.torrent (up to 2105999) [http://libgen.io/libgen/repository_torrent/]
* Foreign fiction
** Non-Russian fiction.
** Size: around 2TB
** Count: 2189439 [http://libgen.io/foreignfiction/index.php?last=&f_lang=All&page=1]
** Last torrent: f_1890000.torrent (up to 1890999) [http://libgen.io/foreignfiction/repository_torrent/]
* Scimag
** Scientific papers.
** Size: around 68TB [http://libgen.lc/stat.php]
** Count: 78935529 [http://libgen.io/scimag/index.php?last=]
** Last torrent: sm_65900000-65999999.torrent [http://libgen.io/scimag/repository_torrent/]


== Database dumps ==
== Database dumps ==


Database dumps can be downloaded from:
Database dumps can be downloaded from:
http://gen.lib.rus.ec/dbdumps/ - automatically generated
* http://gen.lib.rus.ec/dbdumps/ - automatically generated
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/scimag/repository_torrent/ - scimag, torrent
* http://libgen.io/libgen/repository_nzb/ - sci-tech, usenet


== Sci-Mag ==
== Sci-Hub ==


Sci-Mag uses Library Genesis as back-end storage. The repository torrents can be downloaded from:
Sci-Hub [https://engineuring.wordpress.com/2017/07/02/some-facts-on-sci-hub-that-wikipedia-gets-wrong/ stores papers in Library Genesis] as secondary repository. The repository torrents can be downloaded from: <br>
http://libgen.io/scimag/repository_torrent_notforall/
http://libgen.io/scimag/repository_torrent/ <br>
'''The sci-mag database repository torrents are currently unavailable.'''
The database is available together with the others under /dbdumps/.
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:
<pre>
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
</pre>
== Mirrors ==
There are various unofficial mirrors of libgen, such as libgen.pw [https://libgen.pw], BookFI [http://bookfi.net], and B-OK [http://b-ok.org].
== Archival Status ==
The Library Genesis Seeding Project [https://old.reddit.com/r/seedboxes/comments/e129yi/charitable_seeding_for_nonprofit_scientific/] is a group effort on Reddit with The-Eye.eu that aims to seed the entire Library Genesis non-fiction collection. Users are actively being recruited to help preserve the library by seeding any parts of the torrent collection they can (each torrent containing 1,000 books is about 10 GB).
Internet Archive has darked (hidden/unindexed) collections.
* scimag: up to 64000000-64099999
* foreignfiction: up to 1600000
* libgen: up to 2092000

Revision as of 00:20, 11 December 2019

Library Genesis
URL http://gen.lib.rus.ec
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 32TB
    • Count: 2447977 [2]
    • Last torrent: r_2105000.torrent (up to 2105999) [3]
  • Foreign fiction
    • Non-Russian fiction.
    • Size: around 2TB
    • Count: 2189439 [4]
    • Last torrent: f_1890000.torrent (up to 1890999) [5]
  • Scimag
    • Scientific papers.
    • Size: around 68TB [6]
    • Count: 78935529 [7]
    • Last torrent: sm_65900000-65999999.torrent [8]

Database dumps

Database dumps can be downloaded from:

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

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

The Library Genesis Seeding Project [12] is a group effort on Reddit with The-Eye.eu that aims to seed the entire Library Genesis non-fiction collection. Users are actively being recruited to help preserve the library by seeding any parts of the torrent collection they can (each torrent containing 1,000 books is about 10 GB).

Internet Archive has darked (hidden/unindexed) collections.

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