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The Victoria and Albert is digitizing Leonardo da Vinci's Codex Forster notebooks, "so named because they came from the private collection of John Forster in 1876." The first one is now available online.
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Unfortunately, many scholars won't be able to use this resource because they are not faculty members at a large university. Gale/Cengage, unlike other companies such as JSTOR, has no affordable access program for individuals.
An interesting post by Leann Wilson and Marshall Poe on a single online portal for academic books and direct-to-book-consumer models.
Leann Wilson is the co-editor of the New Books Network and Coordinator for Outreach and Social Media at Amherst College Press & Lever Press. Marshall Poe is the founder and editor-in-chief of the New Books Network.
CNI (The Coalition for Networked Information) recently released a video on Text Data Mining (TDM) Research Using Copyrighted and Use-Limited Text Data Sets:
