Why are so many of the books listed 2 or 3 times with the same title but different filename? Are they different versions or just redundant copies?
Free Springer math books
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Re: Free Springer math books
#12Anyone 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...
there's an excellent torrent of springer books out there, about 12gb.
Re: Free Springer math books
#13Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
Wow. I been looking all over for this: http://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/3-540-44890-X
Re: Free Springer math books
#14Thanks, you saved untold fortunes I was planning on surrendering to Bezos in pursuit of these tomes of arcane magic.
Re: Free Springer math books
#15Why are so many of the books listed 2 or 3 times with the same title but different filename? Are they different versions or just redundant copies?
It says near the top that "duplicates = multiple editions".
Re: Free Springer math books
#16Springer'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
I don't know how I got 3000, it's 1800+ free and 300-ish non-free, sorry to get your hopes up.
Re: Free Springer math books
#17Anyone 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...
Just to emphasize your comment: anyone looking to expand their knowledge should download pdfs and epubs from genlib/libgen (I pronounce it "libgen"). It's changed the way I read.
Now, if I have even a passing interest in a book, I download it and read the introduction. If I like it, I get it from the library. If I like my first reading, I buy the book.
The two things that have increased the range of my intellectual interests in 2015 have been libgen and twitter (where people more interesting than me talk about their research with others).
Re: Free Springer math books
#18Link 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... ).
Is there a way to scrape these programatically? I feel like it'd be a useful repository to have stashed away for whatever future reason.
Re: Free Springer math books
#19Anyone knows why Springer made all these books free ? Is there a backstory to it ?
Last ditch attempt to appease the masses before their inevitable demise.
Re: Free Springer math books
#20Earlier quoted context omitted.
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... ).
Is there a way to scrape these programatically? I feel like it'd be a useful repository to have stashed away for whatever future reason.
http://scrapy.org would almost certainly work.