Publications and Literature
This page contains 30 resources.
Assistive Media (Expanding the World of Reading)
Web site - Assistive Media (Expanding the World of Reading)
Description - The mission of Assistive Media is to heighten the educational, cultural, and quality-of-living standard for people with disabilities and help achieve independence and become better integrated within the mainstream of society and community life in general. Assistive Media accomplishes this by providing free-of-charge, copyright-approved, high caliber audio literary works to the world-wide disability community via the Internet effectively, inexpensively, and efficiently.
B&R Samizdat Express
Web site - B&R Samizdat Express
Description - We are making books available on CD and DVD, at very low cost, selected and organized in an easy-to-use, well-indexed format. These CDs and DVDs contain text, not audio or video; they are designed for PCs and recent Macs (OS X), that have CD and/or DVD drives. Our mission is to use technology to make books extremely inexpensive and easy to use. Our CDs and DVDs are hand-crafted. The selection and organization are based on our judgment, not automated programs. These are the complete, unabridged books, in plain text format, with no compression and no encryption, to make them easy for anyone without computer skills to read, using Word, a Web browser or any other application that takes plain ASCII texts. You can move a copy of a book from the CD to your hard drive to edit and add notes. You can use the capabilities of Word or whatever other application you use to increase the type size, to copy-and-paste, to print. And the blind can use these books with their screen readers (which convert text to voice).
Blackmask Online
Web site - Blackmask Online
Description - A large collection of free ebooks for download. Many categories and authors. This site is easy to use. It also contains a bookstore section where you can purchase inexpensive ebooks of works that are not in the public domain. All in all, it's a grreat source for literature.
Blind Reader's Page, The
Web site - Blind Reader's Page, The
Description - This site is a guide to sources of information in alternative formats (braille, recorded cassettes, large print, e-texts, web audio) accessible by people with print disabilities--those with visual and physical handicaps as well as dyslexia. It is also a guide to information about blindness, visual handicaps and other physical handicaps, with a special collection of Wisconsin resources. There are about 2,300 individual links, all evaluated, annotated and organized by subject.
Blind World Magazine
Web site - Blind World Magazine
Description - Blind World is a free online magazine; an impartial retrospect of recently published, blindness-related articles. Here you will find an eclectic assortment of interesting, entertaining and informative articles, on a wide variety of topics that are relevant to, and intrinsically of interest to the blind and visually-impaired. Our Editors constantly scan hundreds of sources from around the world, selecting only those items we know to be of interest to members of the blind and visually impaired communities. We have assembled an impressive variety of blindness related articles for your reading enjoyment, from an equally impressive collection of electronic and print sources, including newspapers and magazines, scientific and medical journals, specialty newsletters and more.
BookShare.Org
Web site - BookShare.Org
Description - Bookshare.org dramatically increases access to books for the community of visually impaired and otherwise print disabled individuals. This online community enables book scans to be shared, thereby leveraging the collections of thousands of individuals who regularly scan books, eliminating significant duplication of effort. 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. Bookshare.org also serves organizations such as the state, local and federal educational system, the rehabilitation system, specialized nonprofit agencies and various governmental units that provide accessible materials to people with disabilities. Schools or groups can sponsor independent access through subscriptions, or through institutional access, download books themselves to deliver directly to qualified individuals signed up under their account.
Braille Bookstore, The
Web site - Braille Bookstore, The
Description - Are you searching for that Braille book your child's always wanted to get his hands on? Perhaps you'd like to build up your very own library with the best Braille titles around. Or maybe you're one of those avid bookworms who likes to relax for a little while by the fire with a nice, long book? Well, you've all come to the right place - The Braille Bookstore!
Braille Forum, The
Web site - Braille Forum, The
Description - The Braille Forum is the monthly magazine of the American Council of the Blind. In addition to the versions here on the web site, The Braille Forum is available in braille, audio cassette, large print, and by email. It contains information of interest both to ACB members and the general public.
Braille Monitor, The
Web site - Braille Monitor, The
Description - The Braille Monitor is the leading publication of the National Federation of the Blind (NFB). It is produced monthly and is available in large print, in Braille, on cassette tape, or in email formats. The Braille Monitor is read by the blind, their friends and families, teachers, employers, rehabilitation workers, legislators, vendors of products for the blind, and anyone interested in learning more about blindness. The Braille Monitor covers the events and activities of the National Federation of the Blind and addresses the many issues and concerns of the blind. It offers a positive philosophy about blindness to both blind readers and the public at large, serves as a vehicle for advocacy and protection of civil rights, addresses social concerns affecting the blind, discusses issues relating to employment, education, legislation, and rehabilitation, provides news of technology and aids and appliances used by the blind, and features many of the leading blind persons in the country.
Choice Magazine Listening
Web site - Choice Magazine Listening
Description - Choice Magazine Listening is a free audio anthology for a special audience of blind, visually impaired, physically disabled, or dyslexic subscribers. CML was created in 1962 by the non-profit Lucerna Fund to offer the best of contemporary magazine writing, completely without charge, to adults unable to read standard print. CML selects and records memorable writing from approximately 100 leading magazines. Every other month, this unique, free service offers its subscribers eight hours of outstanding unabridged articles, fiction and poetry read by professional voices and recorded on four-track cassette tapes. The required four-track player is provided free of charge by the Library of Congress through its Talking Book program, which is available to those who are unable to read because of visual or physical handicap. If you don't have a four-track player, we can help you obtain one.
DIALOGUE magazine
Web site - DIALOGUE magazine
Description - A World of Ideas for Visually Impaired People of All Ages Blindskills publishes DIALOGUE, a bimonthly magazine on vision impairment that is available in five formats: large print, cassette, braille, disk and via e-mail. DIALOGUE welcomes contributions from subscribers and freelance writers.
Future Reflections
Web site - Future Reflections
Description - Future Reflections is a magazine for parents and teachers of blind children. It is published quarterly by the National Organization of Parents of Blind Children, a Division of the National Federation of the Blind (NFB). Future Reflections is available in print and on cassette tape and a special introductory book issue is available free from the NFB. Future Reflections covers the issues surrounding blind children as they grow from birth through college. Each issue provides resources and information for parents and teachers as well as a positive philosophy about blindness. Articles from teaching blind infants to discover and explore their surroundings to campus issues such as access to Braille and recorded textbooks offer answers to many of the common questions asked by parents and provide solutions to common problems.
Home Readers (Audio Catalogs, Magazines, and Books)
Web site - Home Readers (Audio Catalogs, Magazines, and Books)
Description - Home Readers is a non-profit corporation that provides {catalogs}, cookbooks, magazines, and a few books to the blind and visually-impaired on 4-track audio tape. This gives blind and visually-impaired people the independence to shop (and read!) at their leisure. Our pleasant "Home Readers" describe, in great detail, every item in one of our numerous catalogs or read an entire book to you. Additionally, we have a selection of cookbooks -- and our Cookbook Club lets you receive a different cookbook each month. We also offer subscriptions to a limited number of magazines on tape.
Huge Print Press
Web site - Huge Print Press
Description - Huge Print Press custom enlarges everything from Bibles to Textbooks to Novels to Cookbooks. Unlike other large-print providers, YOU TELL US what font size you want. That’s right! You tell us what book and what font size, and we’ll do the rest. Our books are also bound in a convenient 8.5"x11" format and shipped in a timely manner!
International Asociation of Audio Information Services
Web site - International Asociation of Audio Information Services
Description - Represents radio and information services, dial-in newspapers, and Internet broadcasters that deliver audio broadcasts of daily newspapers and other printed materials to individuals with a visual or physical disability. IAAIS is an association of independently operated, volunteer-driven services that use audio technology to turn print into speech, bringing the words alive. IAAIS encourages the establishment and preservation of audio information/radio reading services as a cost-effective means of providing people with date-sensitive information and programming developed to enrich the lives of consumers.
Jewish Braille Institute International
Web site - Jewish Braille Institute International
Description - JBI is an Affiliated Library of the Library of Congress (JBI receives no government funding). The JBI Talking Books circulating library contains audio books in the following languages: English, Russian, Yiddish, Hebrew, Hungarian, Romanian and Polish. JBI is now creating an audio collection in Spanish. The Talking Books library in English has 13,000 titles. JBI offers a library of Large Print books. The JBI Braille library collection contains more than 8,500 titles. There are millions of Americans over the age of 60 who are dealing with the traumatic effect of age-related vision disease. Many other seniors cannot read standard print because they are physically unable to hold a book. The JBI Library with the generous support of the Harry and Jeanette Weinberg Foundation has embarked upon a major outreach project in the greater New York area (including Nassau and Suffolk counties) and in South Florida, which is home to the highest concentration of elderly Americans in the United States.
Journal of Visual Impairment & Blindness (JVIB)
Web site - Journal of Visual Impairment & Blindness (JVIB)
Description - JVIB is the premiere international, interdisciplinary journal of record on blindness and visual impairment that publishes scholarship and information and serves as a forum for the exchange of ideas, airing of controversies, and discussion of issues. JVIB is a monthly publication that includes research articles, as well as shorter pieces of interest to practitioners and extensive news coverage about the field of visual impairment.
Large Print Reviews
Web site - Large Print Reviews
Description - Reviews of large print and audio books and other items of interest to individuals with low vision. Plus, articles on eye health, travel tips, travel articles, and destination reports.
Magnifier, The
Web site - Magnifier, The
Description - "The Magnifier" is the MD Foundation's electronic Newsletter. It is distributed without charge via email and used to issue breaking news regarding clinical trials, clarify recent reports in the media, announce new resources available over the internet and to inform the public of important additions to this web site.
Online Resources for Blind and Partially Sighted Readers of Science Fiction and Fantasy
Web site - Online Resources for Blind and Partially Sighted Readers of Science Fiction and Fantasy
Description - The first section of this site is for blind and partially sighted readers who are beginning to look for technology that will allow them to read on the Internet and on their computers. The remaining sections link to sites that may be of interest to fantasy and science fiction readers who are blind or partially sighted (low vision or visually impaired). In all cases, the sites I link to often link to many other sites. I have been selective in the sites I list, focussing on the ones that would be most helpful to readers who are on a tight budget and are looking for free or inexpensive resources.
Project Gutenberg
Web site - Project Gutenberg
Description - Project Gutenberg is the first and largest single collection of free electronic books, or eBooks. Michael Hart, founder of Project Gutenberg, invented eBooks in 1971 and continues to inspire the creation of eBooks and related technologies today. There are 17,000 free books in the Project Gutenberg Online Book Catalog. Project Gutenberg is the oldest producer of free ebooks on the Internet. Our collection was produced by hundreds of volunteers.
Recording for the Blind and Dyslexic
Web site - Recording for the Blind and Dyslexic
Description - The nation's educational library for those with print disabilities. RFB&D now has a volunteer force of more than 5,800 volunteers who added 4,627 titles to our library in the year 2004. RFB&D has also undertaken an innovative Educational Outreach initiative which brings our services directly into the schools to train teachers and students how to most effectively use our recorded textbooks.