Springer Textbooks More Than 10 Years Old Available for Free Legal Download

Is there some sort of announcement from Springer about this? Specifically, one in which they state what the license is, e.g., CC-BY or CC-BY-SA or something like that? I'll bet they attached either the No-Derivs (ND) or Non-Commercial (NC) limitations, though -- would love to be wrong about that. In the PDFs I've looked at so far, they didn't bother to change the copyright statement at the front of the book, so they still all appear to be under traditional restrictive copyright, whatever new terms Springer intends notwithstanding.

-Karl

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Post by ternaryoperator » Wed, Dec 30, 2015, 4:35 AM UTC

One of the best of these is Holub on Patterns [1], which is IMO the best book for learning patterns. How to implement patterns, how to know which ones to use where, and how to use them in combination. Excellent, clear tutorial. Implementation language is Java.

[1] http://goo.gl/DKFzCe

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Post by 8ig8 » Wed, Dec 30, 2015, 4:46 AM UTC

Filter for all books published in English at least 10 years ago (downloadable), newest first:

http://link.springer.com/search?facet-content-type=%22Book%2...

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Post by scarmig » Wed, Dec 30, 2015, 4:48 AM UTC

8ig8 wrote: post #8

Filter for all books published in English at least 10 years ago (downloadable), newest first: http://link.springer.com/search?facet-content-type=%22Book%2...

"Undergraduate Texts in Mathematics", published at least 10 years ago. Higher signal to noise if you're just looking to pick up some field of mathematics.

http://link.springer.com/search?facet-series=%22666%22&facet...

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Post by gaurangagrawal » Wed, Dec 30, 2015, 4:51 AM UTC

This is so amazing. Thanks for sharing. Computer Science books before 2005 can be found using: http://link.springer.com/search?facet-content-type=%22Book%2...