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Re:ACM has made 'Concurrency: the Works of Leslie Lamport' f... by JadeNB on Thursday April 02, 2020 @04:36PM (#22763445)
This is awesome, and I appreciate the pointer to a specific book!—but isn't all of ACM's Digital Library free to download during until June 30?

https://www.acm.org/articles/bulletins/2020/march/dl-access-...

Re:ACM has made 'Concurrency: the Works of Leslie Lamport' f... by Jtsummers on Thursday April 02, 2020 @04:49PM (#22763640)
I, for one, hadn't realized they'd made the books free to download (though I had intended to check that). I think most people assumed articles and journals when they read about the free DL access.
Re:ACM has made 'Concurrency: the Works of Leslie Lamport' f... by eigen-vector on Thursday April 02, 2020 @06:34PM (#22764594)
That's awesome. I certainly missed this bulletin!
Re:ACM has made 'Concurrency: the Works of Leslie Lamport' f... by copperx on Thursday April 02, 2020 @06:35PM (#22764601)
This is great. Do you know other similar resources that have been made available during this time?
Re:ACM has made 'Concurrency: the Works of Leslie Lamport' f... by JadeNB on Thursday April 02, 2020 @06:56PM (#22764722)
I don't, but keeping an eye out here is probably the best way to find out; I'm pretty sure that's how I saw the announcement above.

Lots of publishers are making their textbooks temporarily available through resources like VitalSource and Redshelf, but (a) VitalSource at least is still reading DRMd material through a clumsy app (I haven't tried Redshelf); and (b) they seem more geared towards college textbooks than to scholarly works.

Re:ACM has made 'Concurrency: the Works of Leslie Lamport' f... by ioncube on Friday April 03, 2020 @01:46AM (#22766594)
Cambridge allowed everyone to access their library but then they changed it to "available online to students through their university library regardless of whether they were previously purchased" https://www.cambridge.org/about-us/covid-19/