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

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Post by david_ar » Wed, Dec 30, 2015, 8:37 AM UTC

kfogel wrote: post #6

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…

From http://www.springeropen.com/books

> SpringerOpen books are published under the Creative Commons Non-Commercial (CC BY-NC) license, so they can be reused and redistributed for non-commercial purposes as long as the original author is attributed.

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

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Post by jetskindo » Wed, Dec 30, 2015, 8:49 AM UTC

In times like these I realize I just can't read all I want to read. There is so much it's overwhelming.

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

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Post by dchest » Wed, Dec 30, 2015, 8:51 AM UTC

calvins wrote: post #45

My favorite find so far is "Advances in Crypto" conference proceedings going back to the early eighties: - http://link.springer.com/search?query=%22advances+in+cryptol...

Crypto thread is here!

- The Design of Rijndael http://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-662-04722-4

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

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Post by jacquesm » Wed, Dec 30, 2015, 8:56 AM UTC

jetskindo wrote: post #52

In times like these I realize I just can't read all I want to read. There is so much it's overwhelming.

Read what you need. The rest will be there when you need it too... It's like being given an 'all you can eat' card with indefinite lifetime, only in this context the card should probably read 'all you can read' :)

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

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Post by jacquesm » Wed, Dec 30, 2015, 8:58 AM UTC

Thank you Nate, that is the best link of HN for the year. I'm seriously impressed with Springer for doing this. Who is next, Elsevier?

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

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Post by zaf » Wed, Dec 30, 2015, 9:04 AM UTC

This is simply fantastic. I'm sure all publishers will follow. +1 to Springer.

Here is my current read:

Alan Turing: Life and Legacy of a Great Thinker http://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-662-05642-4

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

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Post by bewe42 » Wed, Dec 30, 2015, 9:18 AM UTC

This is so awesome. Makes and ruins my day. I'm wondering what that means for authors and writing technical books in general though. Have authors a say in this?

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

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Post by tdsamardzhiev » Wed, Dec 30, 2015, 9:25 AM UTC

isb wrote: post #46

Some good CS books that I found: Approximation Algorithms http://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-662-04565-7 How to Solve It: Modern Heuristics http://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-662-07807-5 Modern Graph Theory http://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-1-4612-0619-4 Computational Geometry http://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-662-03427-9

Also Skiena's "Algorithm Design Manual" will be available in 2018 :)

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

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Post by kanche » Wed, Dec 30, 2015, 9:36 AM UTC

Woah, it's a treasure trove! I am definitely checking out some of the books mentioned in the thread :)

Unfortunately, some of the old and gold Springer books are available only in paper format like Shreve's Stochastic Calculus for Finance [0].

[0] http://www.springer.com/gp/book/9780387401003

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

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Post by paulojreis » Wed, Dec 30, 2015, 9:36 AM UTC

Oh, crap. What you have done... How am I supposed to leave the house, now? :)

BTW: found this gem for brain-science junkies: http://rd.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-642-79928-0 - Neurobiology of Decision-Making, edited by Damásio, Damásio & Christen (the first "Damásio" is António Damásio, author of "Descartes' Error").