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Disability Services for Students

Alternate Text Resources

 

Southern Oregon University is committed to assisting our students become independent self-advocates. In that spirit, we offer the following resources for alternate format text. Some of these resources are open to anyone; some require documentation of print disability. Most are free.

 

We do our best to keep this list up-to-date, but the Internet is a highly volatile medium! If you find a broken link on this page, or have a suggestion for another site, please notify the webmaster.

  • Bookshare http://www.bookshare.org/web/Welcome.html Enables people with disabilities to legally share individually created digital text of books. Now students of SOU can have a free individual membership! Go to http://www.bookshare.org/web/MembersJoinPrintableForm.html for the user agreement - fill it in online, print and sign it, and get it to Shawn Foster in DSS. This will enable you to have an individual account for as long as you are a student at SOU! 
  • Recording for the Blind and Dyslexic: http://www.rfbd.org  Primary suppier of textbooks in alternate format. Students who use alternate format text are highly encouraged to obtain an individual membership, especially as they graduate and move into their professional lives. Membership and documentation of need required. Special players required.
  • The Library of Congress National Library Service for the Blind and Physically Handicapped http://www.loc.gov/nls/ Materials available to borrow for free as audio recordings or Braille text. Documentation of disability is required.
  • Amerian Printing House for the Blind - Louis Database of Accessible Materials http://www.aph.org/louis/index.html Louis lists the location information for over 180,000 books and other products in Braille, large print, computer file and audio recording.
  • SOU’s Online databases http://www.sou.edu/library/databases/index.php Southern Oregon University’s Hannon Library has an extensive collection of books, journals, and databases available online.
  • Bartleby http://www.bartleby.com Publishes literature, reference works, and verse on the internet.
  • Bibliomania http://www.bibliomania.com Publishes classic literature, study guides, reference works, and other text on the internet.
  • Project Gutenberg http://www.gutenberg.org Thousands of free, downloadable public domain books. Also includes audiobooks. Never buy a classic again!
  • The Internet Public Library http://www.ipl.org Research materials and links to other sites.
  • Electronic Text Center, University of Virginia http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/ebooks Contains over 2,100 publicly available e-books.
  • University of California Press          http://texts.cdlib.org/escholarship/titles_public.html  The eScholarship Editions collection includes almost 2000 books from academic presses on a range of topics, including art, science, history, music, religion, and fiction.
  • Baen Free Library http://www.baen.com/library Authors who publish with Baen may post their works for online access - very limited list.
  • Audible.com http://www.audible.com Online bookstore of audio books to purchase. Membership required.
  • Amazon.com http://www.amazon.com  Select "Books" and then "E-Books & Docs" Over 1 million digital documents for purchase, including journal articles, academic research, and industry analysis as well as popular and best selling books.
  • University of Adelaide Library e-text http://etext.library.adelaide.edu.au/colls.html List of etext collections at the University and other places.

Specialized E-Text Collections

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