It has a vast collection of written scientific works available via free licences.

[1] Per Webometrics, it is accounted to be in the top 5 open archives in the world.

Per Russian rating measurers LiRu and Rambler, it is considered to be the largest scientific and educational online library with legal content across the Internet in Russia.

The founders are Dmitry Semyachkin, Mikhail Sergeev[2] and Evgeny Kislyak.

In June 2019 it was announced that CyberLeninka will become the facility for making the journals of Moscow State University, Russia's main and oldest university, available to the public for free.