Anna's Archive
Anna's Archive is a free non-profit online shadow library metasearch engine providing access to a variety of book resources (also via IPFS), created by a team of anonymous archivists (referred to as Anna and/or the Pirate Library Mirror (PiLiMi) team), and launched in direct response to law enforcement efforts, formally assisted by The Publishers Association and the Authors Guild, to close down Z-Library in November 2022. As such, the Anna's Archive team claims to provide metadata access to Open Library materials, to be a backup of the Library Genesis, Sci-Hub and Z-Library shadow libraries, presents ISBN information, has no copyrighted materials on its website, and only indexes metadata that is already publicly available. Anna's Archive notes that their website, a non-profit project, accepts donations to cover costs (hosting, domain names, development and related). As of 1 November 2023, the Anna's Archive website claims to be the "world’s largest open-source open-data library," consisting of 22,052,322 books, 97,847,390 papers, 2,451,032 comics, and 673,013 magazines. Description
Anna's Archive notes that "information wants to be free", and that team members "strongly believe in the free flow of information, and preservation of knowledge and culture". According to the website, Anna's Archive ("search engine of shadow libraries: books, papers, comics, magazines") is a "project that aims to catalog all the books in existence, by aggregating data from various sources ... [and to] track humanity's progress toward making all these books easily available in digital form, through 'shadow libraries'." The team also noted, "We are at the other end of the spectrum [from Z-Library and related]; being very careful not to leave any trace, and having strong operational security.” According to the Anna's Archive website: "Spread the word about Anna’s Archive on Twitter, Reddit, TikTok, Instagram, at your local café or library, or wherever you go! We don’t believe in gatekeeping — if we get taken down, we’ll just pop right up elsewhere, since all our code and data is fully open source." Future development
On October 3, 2023, Anna's Archive is reported to have "scraped" WorldCat, a union catalog, in an effort to help preserve "all" books in the world, and accordingly, to help save, in the words of Anna's Archive, the "legacy of humanity". See also 

 Digital library
 Electronic Frontier Foundation
 Freedom of information
 #ICanHazPDF
 Open Library

References

External links

 
 

 PiLiMi team website

Academic publishing
Book websites
Digital libraries
Ebooks
 
File sharing communities
 
Free search engine software
Intellectual property activism
Open access projects
Science websites
Shadow libraries