On Dec 20, 2011, at 12:00 , 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 didn't try this time (it's a pain to hamstring the proxy setup), but in the past, I've had no joy trying to get to content on SpringerLink w/o some institution's subscription backing me up (I guess they use reverse DNS lookup to verify your network address is within a paying institution's "pale"). Justin -- Justin C. Walker, Curmudgeon-At-Large Institute for the Absorption of Federal Funds -------- If you're not confused, You're not paying attention -------- -- 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
