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Books, papers, magazines, comics, library records, metadata, …

🧬 SciDB

Sci-Hub has paused uploading of new papers. 🧬 SciDB is a continuation of Sci-Hub. Direct access to 101,004,444 academic papers. Learn more…

🏛️ Long-term archive

The datasets used in Anna’s Archive are completely open, and can be mirrored in bulk using torrents. Learn more…

You can help out enormously by seeding torrents. Learn more…

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🟡 419.8TB4–10 seeders
🟢 15.7TB>10 seeders

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📄 Anna’s Blog

The critical window of shadow libraries 2024-07-16
Exclusive access for LLM companies to largest Chinese non-fiction book collection in the world 2023-11-04
1.3B WorldCat scrape & data science mini-competition 2023-10-03
Anna’s Archive Containers (AAC): standardizing releases from the world’s largest shadow library 2023-08-15

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