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Library Genesis is powered by Sci-Hub, an embattled website that provides users free access to scientific papers. Created in 2011 by hacker and scientific researcher Alexandra Elbakyan, Sci-Hub scrapes data from behind the paywalls of the world’s scientific journals and posts them for free online. Governments and private companies have attempted repeatedly to shut down Sci-Hub and sue Elbakyan, but the site remains.
https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/...-sure-a-pirate-bay-of-science-never-goes-down
https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/...-sure-a-pirate-bay-of-science-never-goes-down