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Did you know that The Metropolitan Museum of Art has over 500 books with full-text (& photo's) for free on their website? Even 20 fashion books?

Thanks Esther.

Haute Couture by Richard Martin and Harold Koda (1995) - Download

Christian Dior by Richard Martin and Harold Koda (1996) - Download

The Academy of the Sword: Illustrated Fencing Books 1500–1800 by LaRocca, Donald J. (1998) - Download

Eighteenth-Century Italian Drawings in The Metropolitan Museum of Art by Jacob Bean and William Griswold - Download

All the Mighty World: The Photographs of Roger Fenton, 1852–1860 by Gordon Baldwin, Malcolm Daniel, and Sarah Greenough, with contributions by Richard Pare, Pam Roberts, and Roger Taylor (2004) - Download

Read millions of science articles

That's weird, I want to post this one on Facebook but I'm not allowed to. Probably because of the 'Unpaywall' and 'locked up' in the url. It ignores the 'legal' word though. Let's check if I can share it via my blog.

"Earlier this month, Impactstory, a nonprofit supported by grants from the National Science Foundation and the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, launched, Unpaywall, a free browser extension that helps you “find open-access versions of paywalled research papers, instantly.”

As the co-founders of Impactstory describe it, Unpaywall is “an extension for Chrome and Firefox that links you to free full-text as you browse research articles. Hit a paywall? No problem: click the green tab and read it free!”"

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The Noun Project

Their Mission:

"sharing, celebrating and enhancing the world's visual language"

The Noun Project collects, organizes and adds to the highly recognizable symbols that form the world's visual language, so we may share them in a fun and meaningful way.

Here is our pledge to you:

Free

The symbols on this site are and always will remain free. We believe symbols can not be effectively shared with the world if they are not free.

Simple

Everyone likes simplicity. We want you to be able to come to our site and effortlessly find and obtain what you are looking for. Simple as that.

Fun

We think a language that can be understood by all cultures and people is a pretty amazing thing. We also think our symbols and the objects or ideas they represent are works of art worth celebrating. Check out our store.

Highest Quality

We get excited about things like scale, proportion, and shape. We are committed to design and quality in everything we do.

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