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There's a website uploading books published by Mir, which are loved by many.
Here are the links :
https://mirtitles.org/category/physics/
https://mirtitles.org/category/mathematics/
I am not sure about copyrights though, I've read somewhere that Mir publishers closed down but I think that doesn't entail the books becoming public domain.
If someone could check the copyrights then let him do it please! I think these books would be interesting for this repository.

I have seen some resources that are themselves lists of links to open books. Would there be some benefit in adding the lists rather than adding the links from the list to this list?

examples include:
https://aimath.org/textbooks/approved-textbooks/
https://www.doabooks.org/ csv of titles available here: http://www.doabooks.org/doab?func=csv

I just found out today that FPB is not listed under programming on the awesome list, but rather under BOOKS. I think it would be good to apply for that list, once we add more resources.

In the mean time, ownership should move to this repo's creator, rather than an organization. An org normally has multiple repos (like ruby), while we only have 1. Not saying EbookFoundation is not a great idea, but we can also transfer ownership back later on.

I find this project interesting, and was looking over the Mathematics section. I noticed a bad/changed/expired link.

That is for: The Handbook of Essential Mathematics - John C. Sparks (PDF)

A search option does come up, and it is relatively easy to get to the book, but it is not clear on the best link to use for it:

• OLD/BROKEN: https://florida.theorangegrove.org/og/file/3a8c652c-11d0-e967-95fb-b5bbae2586d6/1/math_handbook.pdf
• SEARCH RESULT: https://theorangegrove.org/pdf/the-handbook-of-essential-mathematics-sparks-pdf/
• Download Link from above: https://theorangegrove.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/the-handbook-of-essential-mathematics-sparks.pdf-1292911.pdf

I thought I could make an attempt at a quick fix, but it was not clear which URL would be preferred for the fix.

Just tried to get this book today and the link now 403s. There's a 2015 edition on the MIT OCW site for the course, and you can still get the 2017 version from the Internet Archive, but it'd be nice if we had an official (and even more recent?) version.

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The Physical Geology entry could be updated: there current link is to 2015 version, but there is a newer version (2019) at https://opentextbc.ca/physicalgeology2ed/. It might be worth adding the new version as a new item.

Under the Physics category, the Fundamental Physics for Level 0 - Teaching Guide, the link doesn't return a result on the OUP website.

When searching the OUP Pakistan website, that title is only available for sale in Pakistan, so that site is not a good universal source for this guide.

I recently discovered that the Spanish National Research Council (or CSIC for short) has several books to download but I have doubts about how to include it in the lists so I want to raise this here before adding something.
To begin with, the site has its own system of categories, which are:

Besides that, the books are usually in one of these "collections" that can help to categorize them better:

As you can see, there are categories and collections of which I am not sure which is their equivalent in the LCCO system classification so I would appreciate any help or correction on this.

Another question I have is about how I should add the books. Seeing the list of books in English would normally be something like this:

• Francisco Guerrero (1528-1599). Opera Omnia. Volumen III. Motetes I-XXII - Francisco Guerrero, José María Llorens Cisteró, Karl H. Müller-Lancé (PDF)

Although I think the most appropriate would be this way:

• Francisco Guerrero (1528-1599). Opera Omnia. Volumen III. Motetes I-XXII - Francisco Guerrero, José María Llorens Cisteró, Karl H. Müller-Lancé (PDF)

All the books are in pdf to download so the first link goes to the CSIC description page and the second is the pdf itself, what do you think? I see that this was also discussed in #10 but there does not seem to be a clear consensus on this.

Other particularities I have noticed are:

• The books that are in several languages: In these cases it seems that you can only download the Spanish version, so I would like the users of non-Spanish speaking countries to try downloading one of these books to see if it is really that way or if the language of the book depends on the location of the user and/or the language of the browser/system.
• Of the more than 400 books available, 139 have two or more categories.
• Some books have names in English even when they are only available in Spanish.

If someone wants to do tests I made a script to extract the data from those books and a dump in JSON with the generated information.

What about adding a "Free online courses" as in free-prgramming-books?
There are a lot of interesting video courses about science.

Does this mean there is nothing TODO?

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The link in the Physics section for Fluid Dynamics - Lecture Notes by Shiva Prasad is not functioning at all. It returns a 404 error.

Unlike programming books, science references have been around for decades, with some subjects rarely updating (math). I think the following should be included when submitting a link

• Title of work/reference
• Format of reference (PDF, HTML, Repository, PPT), unless it is a course
• Author of reference
  • includes PDF, HTML, Repos
  • Excludes wiki-based material (like wikibooks)
• Year published -- excludes constantly modified works (Wikis, Repos)

I am not sure on the exact format. So far, it looks like @eshellman is formatting it as:

<title> <format> by <author>.

The programming repo does not form it into a sentence, and replaces "by" with " - ".

Any changes we decide here, I will put in my future PR that edits the contributing file.