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PLEASE NOTE: These resources are provided as a service. Their inclusion does not constitute an endorsement. The degree of the accessibility of these site may vary.

E-TEXT LIBRARIES

• Accessible Book Collection (http://www.accessiblebookcollection.org/) Provides Digital Text to Persons with Disabilities
• Awesome Library (http://www.awesomelibrary.org/) organizes the Web
  with 24,000 carefully reviewed resources, including the top 5 percent in education.
• Named after the humble character of Melville's classic, Bartleby the Scrivener, Bartleby.com (http://www.bartleby.com/) publishes the classics of literature, nonfiction and reference free of charge for the home, classroom and desktop of each and every Internet participant.
• Bibliomania's (http://www.bibliomania.com/) extensive library of classic literature, reference books and study resources provides 24/7 accessibility. It is a great way to bring the use of IT into literature lessons, and it saves on the cost of books. Bibliomania's search engine lets students find relevant information faster so that they can spend more time analyzing texts.
• Bookshare.org (http://www.bookshare.org/) is an online community that enables people with visual and other print disabilities to legally share scanned books. Bookshare.org takes advantage of a special exemption in the U.S. copyright law that permits the reproduction of publications into specialized formats for the disabled.
• Boston University Medical Center Alumni Medical Library (http://med-libwww.bu.edu/library/elecres.html) provides access to a variety of computerized software, online databases, textbooks, journals and other resources via their local server or over the Internet.
• There are a growing number of electronic repositories that store and index public materials that are available free of charge. The CAST eText Spider (http://www.cast.org/udl/index.cfm?i=1300) helps you locate these materials. Enter a search string and a field to search in the form below and press the "Search" button. The eText Spider will then pass that search term to the various on-line libraries and then display the returned results.
• This index is intended as a "Meta-index" for most major eBook sites, along with thousands of smaller specialized sites. In some subject categories, the resources you find here are more comprehensive than those of all but the largest of research libraries, due to the budget & space constraints of smaller institutions.
• 1,600 publicly-available ebooks University of Virginia Library's eText Center (http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/ebooks/), including classic British and American fiction, major authors, children's literature, American history, Shakespeare, African-American documents, the Bible, and much more.
• The Internet Public Library (http://www.ipl.org/) is the first public library of the Internet and is committed to providing library services to the Internet community, to learn and teach what librarians have to contribute in a digital environment, to promote librarianship and the importance of libraries, and to share interesting ideas and techniques with other librarians.
• Intersect Digital Library (http://intersect.uoregon.edu/) A Library of "Supported Text" books incorporating resources and study strategies that help students learn more from what they read.
• Knowldge Rush Digital Book Directory (http://www.knowledgerush.com/)
• Founded in August 1998, netLibrary (http://www.netlibrary.com/) is the world's premier provider of electronic books (eBooks). netLibrary helps academic, public, corporate and special libraries create a richer, more productive learning environment for their patrons.
• The On-Line Books Page (http://digital.library.upenn.edu/books/) is a website that facilitates access to books that are freely readable over the Internet. It also aims to encourage the development of such on-line books, for the benefit and edification of all.
• Page by Page Books (http://www.pagebypagebooks.com/) We have hundreds of classic books you can read right now, all absolutely free!
• The Project Gutenberg (http://www.gutenberg.net/) Philosophy is to make information, books and other materials available to the general public in forms a vast majority of the computers, programs and people can easily read, use, quote, and search.

AUDIO AND BRAILLE LIBRARIES

• Computers to Help People, Inc. (http://www.chpi.org/) (CHPI) is a private, nonprofit organization. Their mission is to apply computer technology to the problems of people with disabilities, especially to increasing their employability and productivity. They provide books on science and math in Braille and e-text on a worldwide basis.
• The American Printing House for the Blind currently houses the Louis Database of Accessible Materials (http://www.aph.org/louis.htm) for people who are Blind or Visually Impaired. Louis contains information about more than 152,000 titles of accessible materials, including braille, large print, sound recordings, and computer files from over 200 agencies throughout the United States.
• National Braille Press (http://www.nbp.org/) is a nonprofit braille printing and publishing house established in 1927 and is one of the world's leading producers of braille.
• National Library Service for the Blind and Physically Handicapped, Library of Congress (http://www.loc.gov/nls/) runs a free national library program of braille and recorded materials for blind and physically disabled persons. Under a special provision of the U.S. copyright law and with the permission of authors and publishers of works not covered by the provision, NLS selects and produces full-length books and magazines in braille and on recorded disc and cassette.
• Recording for the Blind and Dyslexic (http://www.rfbd.org/) is the nation's educational library for people with print disabilities. They provide educational materials in recorded and computerized formats from kindergarten through postgraduate level. The Office of Disability Services maintains an institutional membership to RFB&D in order to support the needs of our Students.

BRAILLE MUSIC

• Dancing Dots Braille Music Technology, L.P.(http://dancingdots.com/), was founded in 1992 to develop and adapt music technology for the blind. In 1997 Dancing Dots released its first product, the GOODFEEL® Braille Music Translator. In addition to selling GOODFEEL®, the company is an authorized distributor for a wide range of assistive technology and music products.
• The National Library Service for the Blind and Physically Handicapped, Library of Congress Music Section (http://www.loc.gov/nls/music/index.html) includes a circulating collection of braille, large print, and recorded instructional materials and a subscription program of magazines produced in braille, on cassette, and in large print.
• The Canadian National institute for the Blind (CNIB) Music Library (http://www.cnib.ca/eng/braille_information/music.htm) currently houses one of the largest collections of braille music in the world; it is second only to the Library of Congress in Washington, D.C. The collection consists of approximately 18,500 Braille music scores for all types of instruments, and braille books on music.
• Braille Jymico (http://www.braillejymico.com/index.html) is the first private company in Canada to transcribe musical scores according to the "Braille Music Notation, American Edition."
• The Royal National Institute for the Blind (RNIB) (http://www.rnib.org.uk/xpedio/groups/public/documents/publicwebsite/public_rnib003032.hcsp) is cated in the United Kingdom and offers a range of services to customers wishingto ascertain information about availability of braille music and music-related materials.

OTHER VALUABLE RESOURCES

• Adobe (http://access.adobe.com) has developed multiple methods for converting Adobe PDF documents to a format that is more accessible to screen reading software. This is a free service designed to benefit individuals with both visual and reading disabilities.
• Adobe Reader can now read to you! Adobe Reader 6.0 is the newest version of the familiar Adobe Acrobat® Reader software. It also replaces Adobe Acrobat eBook Reader, software for viewing high-fidelity eBooks on your notebook or desktop computer. Documents which are text-based can be read to you through the computer's own speech drivers - no special installations required.
• ReadPlease (http://www.readplease.com )ReadPlease offers cut and paste reading from any text available electronically. Easy and familiar looking controls allow easy interface with the reading of your texts. There is both a free version – ReadPlease 2003 and a more sophisticated $50 version ReadPlease Plus 2003.
• ReadingBar for Internet Explorer (http://readingbar.com)
  New from ReadPlease, this toolbar add-on is complete with a Help File menu, features and screen shots! Reads any web page, makes .mp3/.wav sound files, zooms any page, creates text only version web pages, and translates!