On Tue, Dec 20, 2011 at 12:07 PM, Jason Grout <[email protected]> wrote: > On 12/20/11 2:00 PM, William Stein wrote: >> >> On Tue, Dec 20, 2011 at 11:40 AM, Justin C. Walker<[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>> >>> On Dec 20, 2011, at 11:25 , William Stein wrote: >>> >>>> On Tue, Dec 20, 2011 at 1:02 AM, Nicolas M. Thiery >>>> <[email protected]> wrote: >>>>> >>>>> Thanks everyone for your feedback so far. >>> >>> [snip] >>>> >>>> It seems like Springer maybe also provides the whole book for free to >>>> "read online" for anybody here, though I'm not sure: >>>> >>>> >>>> http://www.springerlink.com/content/978-0-387-85525-7#section=132527&page=1 >>> >>> >>> FWIW, I think that SpringerLink is not open for "anybody". It's >>> subscription-based. Presumably, if, e.g., your university library >>> subscribes, and you connect from there, you can see/read what's provided. >>> If you try it from off-campus, unless you go through a university proxy >>> server, you will have to log in to SpringerLink. >>> >>> At least, that's my experience. >> >> >> Speaking of *experience*, did you try the link I posted above? I'm >> off campus using a random browser, and that link works fine for me, >> showing my whole book evidently for free. If I were to login >> through a campus proxy thing, then I get a different URL entirely, but >> I also get extra privileges, e.g., the ability to download pdf's of >> chapters. > > > I can see the first few pages of each chapter, but they made it impossible > to read any more than that. If I click "Download PDF", I get a message: > Access to this content is restricted to subscribers. Options for obtaining > access are below. >
Ahh, so that is what they do. I wish they would list my website as an option to obtain access. Or just give away the pdf of my book to anybody. I'll talk with Springer about this at the AMS meeting. Maybe they can feature my book as free-er than the rest. -- William > Jason > > > > > -- > To post to this group, send an email to [email protected] > To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to > [email protected] > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel > URL: http://www.sagemath.org -- William Stein Professor of Mathematics University of Washington http://wstein.org -- To post to this group, send an email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel URL: http://www.sagemath.org
