Internet Archive expands access to millions of books for people with disabilities | Internet Archive Blogs

peter.suber's bookmarks 2018-10-14

Summary:

"Now, disabled users that are certified by a growing number of organizations can borrow hundreds of thousands of modern books and download mostly older books all for free.

Individuals that are already a qualified user of  NLS-BARDBookshare, or Ontario Council of University Libraries Scholar’s Portal (ACE)  can link their archive.org accounts and gain access.

Individuals that are are affiliated with any of these organizations can contact them to authorize their archive.org account for print-disabled access...."

Link:

http://blog.archive.org/2018/10/11/internet-archive-expands-access-to-millions-of-books-for-people-with-disabilities/

From feeds:

Open Access Tracking Project (OATP) » peter.suber's bookmarks

Tags:

oa.new oa.books oa.accessibility oa.growth oa.internet_archive

Date tagged:

10/14/2018, 13:28

Date published:

10/14/2018, 09:28