Free Springer math books

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Post by DanielRibeiro » Mon, Dec 28, 2015, 12:50 PM UTC

Free Springer math books
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Post by fermigier » Mon, Dec 28, 2015, 3:32 PM UTC

Anyone knows why Springer made all these books free ? Is there a backstory to it ?

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Post by jesuslop » Mon, Dec 28, 2015, 3:34 PM UTC

Includes Categories for the Working Mathematician by Mac Lane.

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Post by sdenton4 » Mon, Dec 28, 2015, 4:02 PM UTC

fermigier wrote: post #2

Anyone knows why Springer made all these books free ? Is there a backstory to it ?

Looks like Springer runs a open publishing model for books, with a fee charged to the author, as usual . My guess would be that they are seeding a bunch of these classic books to increase visibility of the open publishing scheme. And anyway, there's probably genlib copies of most of these floating around anyways...

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Post by GFK_of_xmaspast » Mon, Dec 28, 2015, 4:19 PM UTC

Springer's got an incredible number of free texts up there, including over 3000 volumes in the "Lecture Notes in Mathematics" series.

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Post by mrcactu5 » Mon, Dec 28, 2015, 4:28 PM UTC

GFK_of_xmaspast wrote: post #5

Springer's got an incredible number of free texts up there, including over 3000 volumes in the "Lecture Notes in Mathematics" series.

lecture notes in mathematics is NOT free. they are making me buy

http://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-319-22704-7_1

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Post by [deleted] » Mon, Dec 28, 2015, 4:28 PM UTC

GFK_of_xmaspast wrote: post #5

Springer's got an incredible number of free texts up there, including over 3000 volumes in the "Lecture Notes in Mathematics" series.

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Post by HillRat » Mon, Dec 28, 2015, 4:29 PM UTC

Link to Springer's main open access page: (http://www.springeropen.com/books). More than math texts up there!

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Post by tomku » Mon, Dec 28, 2015, 4:34 PM UTC

mrcactu5 wrote: post #6

GFK_of_xmaspast wrote: post #5

Springer's got an incredible number of free texts up there, including over 3000 volumes in the "Lecture Notes in Mathematics" series.

lecture notes in mathematics is NOT free. they are making me buy http://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-319-22704-7_1

Only texts published >10 years ago (2004 or earlier) are free.

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Post by patrickyeon » Mon, Dec 28, 2015, 4:45 PM UTC

HillRat wrote: post #8

Link to Springer's main open access page: ( http://www.springeropen.com/books ). More than math texts up there!

Very true, I see >56,000 English-language books that seem to be available for free ( http://link.springer.com/search?facet-content-type=%22Book%2... ).