New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art launched a new portal earlier this month offering free, full-text online versions of hundreds of art books. Dubbed MetPublications, the tool offers unprecedented access to the output of the museum's publishing arm, opening up 643 titles stretching back to 1964 — recent books include Afghanistan: Forging Civilizations along the Silk Road and Art and Anatomy in Renaissance Italy, both published this year. What's more, 140 out of print books are now available for purchase through a high-quality print on demand service administered by Yale University Press.
The initiative, reportedly funded by a donation from Hunt and Betsy Lawrence, is integrated with Google Books, allowing users to discover titles...
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