Alt-Text Providers
Kennesaw State University and the office for disAbled Student Support Services does not recommend or endorse any of these sites. This information is provided as a tool for students and others seeking alternate text resources.
| Recording for the Blind and Dyslexic | http://www.rfbd.org | Primary suppier of textbooks
in alternate format (4-track audio recordings or e-text in DAISY format). 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. |
| 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. |
| NetLibrary | http://www.netlibrary.com | Kennesaw State University belongs to NetLibrary and 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 | Publishes public domain book sin electronic format for downloading. |
| Bookshare | http://www.bookshare.org/web/Welcome.html | Enables people with disabilities to legally share individually created digital text of books. |
| 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 1,800 publicly available e-books. |
| University of California Press | http://texts.cdlib.org/escholarship/titles_public.html | |
| University of Nebraska Press - Digital Project | http://www.nebraskapress.unl.edu/e_editions.jsp | Limited collection of online works. |
| 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
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List of etext collections at the University and other places. |
Specialized E-Text Collections
| The Complete Works of Willima Shakespeare | http://www-tech.mit.edu/Shakespeare/works.html | |
| American Verse Project | http://www.hti.umich.edu/a/amverse/ | Collection of American verse prior to 1920. |
| Making of America Project | http://moa.cit.cornell.edu/moa/ | Primary sources in American social history. |
| Perseus Digital Library | http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/ | A collection of ancient Greek and Roman texts, papyri, Renaissance, maps images, and other tools. |
| Poet's Corner | http://www.theotherpages.org/poems/ | An Anthology of poetry and poets. |
| Hoover Institution - Hoover Books Online | http://www-hoover.stanford.edu/publications/books/ | Online books on politics, economics, political economy, and international affairs. |