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Links to free nonfiction books and other textual resources in the Internet

Computer Science:

• Open Books Project
• For IEEE Computer Society Members there is IEEE Computer Society Online Bookshelf
• Frank Atanassow has a list of many freely available texts related to programming languages: PLT online.
• A number of CS related ebooks may be found also at EBooks Link Page (or at the old location)

Mathematics:

• Biblioteka Wirtualna Nauki: Kolekcja matematyczno-fizyczna
  Many books and publications covering mathematics and physics in Polish, English, German, French, Russian...
• The Electronic Library of Mathematics
• Service- und Kompetenzzentrum der Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek Göttingen Digital Collection: Mathematica
• DigiZeitschriften — das deutsche digitale Zeitschriftenarchiv
• Textbooks freely available online (bases on a list copied from Online research tools for computer science)
  • AMS books online
  • UPenn'scollection of digital books in Math and Computer Science
  • Cornell's collection of old math books.
  • Burris and Sankappanavar: A Course in Universal Algebra
  • Nation: Notes on Lattice Theory.
  • Wegener: The Complexity of Boolean Functions. Great reference on boolean function complexity. The original 1987 version, so doesn't include more recent results.
  • Bilaniuk, A Problem Course in Mathematical Logic. Covers propositional and first-order logic, compactness, computability and incompleteness.
  • Sørensen and Urzyczyn, Lectures on the Curry-Howard Isomorphism. Contains very readable background material on logic and the lambda-calculus too.
• Linear Algebra: An Introduction to Linear Algebra for Pre-Calculus Students
• Professor Strang's Class 18.06 Linear Algebra Lecture Videos, MIT, Fall 1999

Computer Science Bibliographies

Many bibliographic records contain also URL's pointing to full text of these scientific publications. (This list is not meant to be complete — use it as a starting point)

Here is a very nice presentation titled Literature Search for Computer Science, which gives you an overview of bibliography search (esp. in computer science) — "everybody is supposed to know it, but no one was taugth that at school"
There is also a very useful leaflet on similar topic: Michael Hanson, "Efficient Reading of Papers in Science and Technology". Brochure, 1990.

• The Collection of Computer Science Bibliographies
• DBLP
• Online research tools for computer science – a collection of useful links to scientific search engines, text books and articles including a few texts directed to young researchers.

Other Topics

• MIT's OpenCourseWare: a free and open educational resource for faculty, students, and self-learners around the world.

• Connexions^® Project: Connexions is an environment for collaboratively developing, freely sharing, and rapidly publishing scholarly content on the Web. Our Content Commons contains educational materials for everyone — from children to college students to professionals — organized in small modules that are easily connected into larger courses. All content is free to use and reuse under the Creative Commons "attribution" license.

• WikiBooks: a sister project to Wikipedia

• Free books on technology subjects: Technology ebooks and print books for free downloads
• Encyclopedia of Life Support Systems (UNESCO, sample chapters, various science fields)

Previews of books:

• Amazon.com allows looking into table of contents, index and introduction of many books, or even search inside the book.
• http://safaribooksonline.com
• http://safari.informit.com
• http://safari.oreilly.com

Direct links:

• Introduction to Reverse Engineering Software
• Numerical Recipes Software's Books On-Line
• WEB STYLE GUIDE, 2nd edition (2002)
• "Software Engineering for Internet Applications"
• Bruce Eckel's "Thinking in..." (Java, C++) books
• "Tree Automata Techniques and Applications"
• N.D. Jones, C.K. Gomard, and P. Sestoft, Partial Evaluation and Automatic Program Generation
• David MacKay "Information Theory, Inference, and Learning Algorithms" (Version 6.6 - Mon 22 December 2003. Second printing.)
• David A. Forsyth, Jean Ponce "Computer Vision — A Modern Approach"
  (Third Draft Chapters in PDF)
• Steven W. Smith, Ph.D "The Scientist and Engineer's Guide to Digital Signal Processing"
  The best introduction to DSP I have ever seen. I've read this book before even taking the course in Digital Signal Processing
• Mark Jason Dominus "Higher-Order Perl"

Audio:

• Audio/Video Lectures by Steven Skiena
• IT Conversations
• Conference Proceedings at (audio) archives.org
• Stanford on iTunes: Lectures from Stanford University available on iTunes (without additional payment, limited to platforms where iTMS works)
• Other links you can find in users comments to
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  • Ask Slashdot: Technical Audio Books - Where Are The Good Ones?

Audio/Video:

• MIT OpenCourseWare: a few recorded lectures in Mathematics, Computer Science and others topics