Very cool. They've got one book in Italian, and I just started learning, maybe after my easy Berlitz, I'll try to learn some Italian and refresh some Mathematics at the same time.
Springer Textbooks More Than 10 Years Old Available for Free Legal Download
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Re: Springer Textbooks More Than 10 Years Old Available for Free Legal Download
#12Filter 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...
Thank you and thank you Springer!
You just made my personal day and ruined my office day :-). I'll now spend rest of the day, and perhaps week, drooling over, downloading (and uploading them to my DropBox account) a whole bunch of these :-)
Re: Springer Textbooks More Than 10 Years Old Available for Free Legal Download
#13This is pure money. Thanks for the link OP !
Re: Springer Textbooks More Than 10 Years Old Available for Free Legal Download
#14Is 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…
yeah, it looks like they are still under traditional copyright. It's just that the purchase price is $0.00. Free as in beer.
Still, that's pretty cool!
Re: Springer Textbooks More Than 10 Years Old Available for Free Legal Download
#15Is 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…
yeah, it looks like they are still under traditional copyright. It's just that the purchase price is $0.00. Free as in beer. Still, that's pretty cool!
Well, right now it's still technically illegal to download them, unless & until Springer actually says some different license. Not that anyone would be prosecuted, obviously; one could clearly claim that it was obvious that Springer intended to distribute them at the very least for personal non-commercial use, even if Springer didn't say so explicitly anywhere. If the terms are even more liberal than that, so much the better... But it ain't so till Springer says it's so :-).
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#16Amazing! Right off the bad I found some great topics:
http://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-1-4302-6383-8 http://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-642-30241-1
Looked like great reads right off the bad. Thanks OP!
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#17Earlier quoted context omitted.
yeah, it looks like they are still under traditional copyright. It's just that the purchase price is $0.00. Free as in beer. Still, that's pretty cool!
Well, right now it's still technically illegal to download them, unless & until Springer actually says some different license. Not that anyone would be prosecuted, obviously; one could clearly claim that it was obvious that Springer intended to distribute them at the very least for personal non-commercial use, even if Springer didn't say so explicitly anywhere. If the terms are even more liberal than that, so much th…
The website says "Open Access: This content is freely available online to anyone, anywhere at any time."
Re: Springer Textbooks More Than 10 Years Old Available for Free Legal Download
#18Earlier quoted context omitted.
yeah, it looks like they are still under traditional copyright. It's just that the purchase price is $0.00. Free as in beer. Still, that's pretty cool!
Well, right now it's still technically illegal to download them, unless & until Springer actually says some different license. Not that anyone would be prosecuted, obviously; one could clearly claim that it was obvious that Springer intended to distribute them at the very least for personal non-commercial use, even if Springer didn't say so explicitly anywhere. If the terms are even more liberal than that, so much th…
Why is it technically illegal to download them?
Re: Springer Textbooks More Than 10 Years Old Available for Free Legal Download
#19Earlier quoted context omitted.
yeah, it looks like they are still under traditional copyright. It's just that the purchase price is $0.00. Free as in beer. Still, that's pretty cool!
Well, right now it's still technically illegal to download them, unless & until Springer actually says some different license. Not that anyone would be prosecuted, obviously; one could clearly claim that it was obvious that Springer intended to distribute them at the very least for personal non-commercial use, even if Springer didn't say so explicitly anywhere. If the terms are even more liberal than that, so much th…
The site's terms and conditions [1] state:
"You may solely for private, educational, personal, scientific, or research purposes access, browse, view, display, search, download and print the Content."
Re: Springer Textbooks More Than 10 Years Old Available for Free Legal Download
#20Filter 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...
This is great - I've been looking for a good series to have on hand when I want to dive deeper into a math field on an as-needed basis. For example, the Linear Algebra one could be really useful if I decide to get deeper into any Machine Learning stuff - http://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-1-4612-1670-4
It's possible to do things with statistics/ML even without having the greatest grasp on linear algebra, but it sure would help to have a firmer foundation. Thanks!