Library Genesis
Library Genesis (LibGen) is a digital library established on 11 March 2008.
Literature
- "In solidarity with Library Genesis and Sci-Hub", 30 Nov 2015. Open letter.
- Guillaume Cabanac, "Bibliogifts in LibGen? A Study of a Text-Sharing Platform Driven by Biblioleaks and Crowdsourcing", Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology 67:4, 2015, pp 874-884.
- Sarah Laskow, "The Rise of Pirate Libraries", Atlas Obscura, 21 Apr 2016.
- Balázs Bodó, "The Genesis of Library Genesis: The Birth of a Global Scholarly Shadow Library", in Shadow Libraries: Access to Knowledge in Global Higher Education, ed. Joe Karaganis, MIT Press, 2018, pp 25-51. [1]
- Balázs Bodó, "Library Genesis in Numbers: Mapping the Underground Flow of Knowledge", in Shadow Libraries: Access to Knowledge in Global Higher Education, ed. Joe Karaganis, MIT Press, 2018, pp 53-77. [2]
- Andy Maxwell, "Meet the Guy Behind the Libgen Torrent Seeding Movement", TorrentFreak, 5 Dec 2019.
- Roberto Cruz Arzabal, "La piratería como forma imposible: circulación y estratificación de la teoría contemporánea", in Exclusión y deriva: dinámicas fronterizas de la digitalidad, eds. Johanna C. Ángel Reyes and Joseba Buj, Mexico City: Universidad Iberoamericana Ciudad de México, Jan 2020, pp 163-186. (Spanish)