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Z-Library (abbreviated as z-lib, formerly BookFinder) is a shadow library project for file-sharing access to scholarly journal articles, academic texts and general-interest books. It began as a mirror of Library Genesis , but has expanded dramatically.
Library Genesis (LibGen) is a shadow library project for file-sharing access to scholarly journal articles, academic and general-interest books, images, comics, audiobooks, and magazines. The site enables free access to content that is otherwise paywalled or not digitized elsewhere. [ 1 ]
Growth of Library Genesis, 2009–2022. One of the goals of shadow libraries is to more readily disseminate academic content, especially papers from academic journals. [2] Academic literature has become increasingly expensive, as costs to access information created by scholars have risen dramatically in recent years, especially the cost of ...
archive.today – Is a web archiving site, founded in 2012, that saves snapshots on demand [2]; Demonoid – Torrent [3]; Internet Archive – A web archiving site; KickassTorrents (defunct) – A BitTorrent index [4]
The purpose of mirrors is to reduce network traffic, improve access speed, ensure availability of the original site for technical [2] or political reasons, [3] or provide a real-time backup of the original site. [4] [5] [6] Mirror sites are particularly important in developing countries, where internet access may be slower or less reliable. [7]
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Anna's Archive was created by members of the Pirate Library Mirror (PiLiMi) project, an anonymous effort to mirror shadow libraries that completed a full copy of Z-Library in September 2022. [ 8 ] [ 13 ] [ 14 ] PiLiMi acknowledged that it "deliberately violated the copyright law in most countries" in seeking to preserve these libraries. [ 8 ]
Elbakyan was born in Almaty, Kazakh Soviet Socialist Republic (named Alma-Ata in Russian), on 6 November 1988. [14] [15] She identifies as multiracial, with Armenian, Slavic and Asian roots. [16]