{"id":10004,"date":"2020-06-02T21:40:11","date_gmt":"2020-06-03T01:40:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/?p=10004"},"modified":"2020-06-02T21:42:26","modified_gmt":"2020-06-03T01:42:26","slug":"free-textbooks-from-springer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/?p=10004","title":{"rendered":"Free textbooks from Springer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I don&#8217;t always like commercial publishers. Some of their textbooks are prohibitively expensive, yet often lacking in quality. (One persistent exception is Dover Publications, who published some of the best textbooks I own, as low-cost paperbacks.)<\/p>\n<p>Last night, however, I was very pleasantly surprised by Springer, who made several hundred textbooks across a range of disciplines <a href=\"https:\/\/www.springernature.com\/gp\/librarians\/news-events\/all-news-articles\/industry-news-initiatives\/free-access-to-textbooks-for-institutions-affected-by-coronaviru\/17855960?sap-outbound-id=07923935E132AFCC90201BAEA7D6755EC6C597DE&amp;utm_source=hybris-campaign&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=000_BARZ01_0000001531_AEXS_AWA_CB02_GL_txt_covid&amp;utm_content=EN_internal_5917_20200522&amp;mkt-key=42010A0550671EDA9BA73AC34F576EF6\">available for free<\/a>, on account of COVID-19.<\/p>\n<p>I did not get greedy. I didn&#8217;t download titles indiscriminately. But I did find several titles that are of interest to me, and I gladly took advantage of this opportunity.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.springernature.com\/gp\/librarians\/news-events\/all-news-articles\/industry-news-initiatives\/free-access-to-textbooks-for-institutions-affected-by-coronaviru\/17855960\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-10005\" src=\"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/springer-covid19.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"797\" height=\"452\" srcset=\"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/springer-covid19.png 797w, https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/springer-covid19-300x170.png 300w, https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/springer-covid19-768x436.png 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 797px) 100vw, 797px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Thank you, Springer.<\/p>\n<fb:like href='https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/?p=10004' send='false' layout='button_count' show_faces='true' width='450' height='65' action='like' colorscheme='light' font='lucida grande'><\/fb:like>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I don&#8217;t always like commercial publishers. Some of their textbooks are prohibitively expensive, yet often lacking in quality. (One persistent exception is Dover Publications, who published some of the best textbooks I own, as low-cost paperbacks.) Last night, however, I was very pleasantly surprised by Springer, who made several hundred textbooks across a range of <a href='https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/?p=10004' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,29,48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10004","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-health","category-science","category-9-id","category-29-id","category-48-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10004","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10004"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10004\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10007,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10004\/revisions\/10007"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10004"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10004"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10004"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}