Dear All,
we are looking for 3-4 partners from eligible countries to implement the project: 

Low cost, high efficiency digitalization of historical medical books from periferal European Medical Academies.

Main objective: to build up a network of European medical academies/medical schools aimed at establishing an open on-line library focussed on academic proceedings and medical books to document the transition from vitalism to scientific medicine. Digitalized material will be freely accessible from any peripheral computer. 
Project features:
1. Preferential consideration of academic proceedings/books from periferal yet important medical academies from late XVIII to mid XX century. 
2. Funding for establishing one technical unit/participant with same scanning machine, kind of electronic repository and OCR transfer software. Our present technical setting: low-cost/high-efficiency scanner with high-resolution photographic technique; scanning capacity 600-800 pages/hour; high output/cost-per-page ratio. Total cost/unit: approx 20,000E; average output/unit: 6-8 books/day, ie 1200-1600 books scanned/transferred to the web/year, approx.5000 books/3yrs project. We will share expertise/know-how, instruct partners.

For details:
http://www.accademiamedicina.unito.it/e-books/Biblioteca_digitale_index.htm: 

Present small-scale project as crystallization nucleus towards wider network of Medical Academy Libraries. 

Happy to share text of advanced project.

Paolo Arese, Alessandro Bargoni
Board members of Accademia di Medicina di Torino (est. 1848) and School of Medicine, University of Torino