Springer Nature Textbooks for free download

Springer Nature is offering free access to their eBooks and textbooks. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic affecting the world right now, this is one way to support teaching and learning while most are required to stay at home to prevent the spread of the virus. More than 500 books on a wide range of disciplines are available through Springer Link until July 2020.

To see the books available, check this list (Excel file) organized by subject area and with download links: Free English textbook titles (all disciplines)




“As the global impact of the crisis intensifies, remote access to educational resources has become essential. We want to support lecturers, teachers and students during this challenging period and hope that this initiative, which will see over 500 key textbooks available for free online, will go some way to help," said Niels Peter Thomas, Managing Director Springer Nature Books.

Books are available for download in PDF and .epub formats.

Springer Nature is an American-German publishing company founded in 2015.

Subjects covered: Medicine, Religion and Philosophy, Behavioral Science, Psychology, Biomedical and Life Sciences, Business and Economics, Management, Chemistry and Materials Science, Computer Science, Earth and Environmental Science, Economics and Finance, Education, Energy, Engineering, Humanities, Social Sciences and Law, Intelligent Technologies and Robotics, Law and Criminology, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies, Mathematics and Statistics, Physics and Astronomy, Social Sciences

Since there is a large number of books on the list, here are some titles that I think are useful for librarians:

• Writing for Publication by Mary Renck Jalongo, Olivia N. Saracho, 1st ed. 2016
• Introduction to Statistics and Data Analysis by Christian Heumann, Michael Schomaker,  Shalabh, 1st ed. 2016
• Principles of Data Mining by Max Bramer, 3rd ed. 2016
• Introduction to Data Science by Laura Igual, Santi Seguí, 1st ed. 2017