Decreased accessibility to Z-Library and its services has substantially impacted students and researchers in underfunded institutions who rely on its resources for their studies and work.[48][38][49] In response to the law enforcement action, a group of anonymous archivists launched Anna's Archive,[50] a free non-profit online shadow library metasearch engine (purportedly via IPFS) providing access to a variety of book resources.[51][52][53] The team claims to provide metadata access to Open Library materials, to be a backup of the Library Genesis and Z-Library shadow libraries, presents ISBN information, has no copyrighted materials on its website, and only indexes metadata that is already publicly available.[52][54][55] Besides the recently launched Anna's Archive website, many other alternative workarounds to the recent attempts to take down the Z-Library website have been reported.[56][31] Some of these purported alternative sites have taken up the top search results and submitted scammy DMCA takedown requests of their own, according to news reports.[57][58]