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Hi Susan Your email covers all the info we send and covers everything we have ever been asked. Kind regards David David Peacock Information Collections & Services University of Hertfordshire, Hatfield. AL10 9AB Tel. 01707 284663 Email [log in to unmask] Information Hertfordshire Services and Solutions for the University From: A general library and information science list for news and discussion. [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Susan Hastie Sent: 14 January 2015 11:36 To: [log in to unmask] Subject: Re: DSA Changes Hi, This is the general layout for the information that I send to publishers. Not all publishers want the same information and quite a few now have online application forms but it makes things a bit easier when you're getting multiple titles for one student. Hello, I work in Regent's University London library and I am trying to source a PDF copy of this book for a visually impaired student: Title of Book Author last name, author first name ISBN 123-4567891234 We have 1 copy in stock in our library: hyperlink to print copy of book on library catalogue The copy is for: Student Name Student ID: S123456789 Degree: BA Something Module: Module Code (Module Title) Teaching Staff: Staff Name - staff email address Start and end dates of course: 26/01/2015 - 15/05/2015 If you need any more information please do get back to me. I've yet to have a publisher contact a member of teaching staff or ask for more information after sending this, so it seems to cover all bases quite well. Sometimes publishers will want assurance that you are the appropriate member of staff to be making these requests, in which case I just send them my job description. I've yet to have any students come back to me and say they can't use the PDF, so I assume there's no issue with any markup language within the PDFs. I'm not sure how much scope there would be for getting 'clean' versions, as they normally come via a 'Rights and Permissions' member of staff, rather than someone who might have been involved in putting the PDF together. Susan Hastie Student Support Librarian Learning Resources / Library Regent's University London, Inner Circle, Regent's Park, London, NW1 4NS T: +44 (0)20 3075 6239 | F: +44 (0)20 7487 7777 | E: [log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]> www.regents.ac.uk<http://www.regents.ac.uk> From: Lisa Redlinski [mailto:[log in to unmask]] Sent: 14 January 2015 11:22 To: Susan Hastie; [log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]> Subject: RE: DSA Changes Hello, Please would someone share with the list any canned email texts that are used when requesting electronic versions of books/periodicals? It would be easier for everyone if we shared a similar text when we request materials from publishers under this regulation. Also, I wonder if it's worth asking publishers for an accessible version of the PDFs so the screen readers don't stumble into other types of electronic markup? Has anyone tested the publisher PDFs themselves or had any comment on them? Thanks, Lisa Redlinski | Information Services Manager (Library Manager) | College of Arts and Humanities | Grand Parade St. Peters House Library, University of Brighton, 16 - 18 Richmond Place, Brighton, BN2 9NA tweet us: https://twitter.com/SPHLibrary ¦ w: 01273 643941 ¦ f: 01273 607532 ¦ information services<http://www.brighton.ac.uk/is/cms/index.php> Aspire...to an easier way of managing your reading lists Create your reading list online, linking students directly to recommended resources. Visit the University's Aspire<http://www.brighton.ac.uk/is/aspire> webpages or book on a workshop<http://www.brighton.ac.uk/is/loco/loco.php>. For the best of that pop, whether folk or jazz or blues or the rock n' roll that was all rebellion, is always first and last about freedom - where 'about' connotes both 'to speak of' and 'to work towards' and where freedom means freedom from the muting cingula of circumstances, forces, norms. For early rock, these norms were most often generational, the forces ideological - a person of the mind that the Young Democrat or teen heard, finally felt in the music was escapable... simply because the music was the escape. - Signifying Rappers, DF Wallace From: A general library and information science list for news and discussion. [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Susan Hastie Sent: 14 January 2015 09:53 To: [log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]> Subject: Re: DSA Changes Morning, I actually deal with this issue quite a lot in my role and the statement is true, if written in a slightly misleading way. I often get PDF versions of books directly from publishers for students with disabilities, mainly via FTP (which may be the 'online' version they are referring to) It's completely free but it does involve a member of staff finding the correct person at the publishers, sending them the correct information about the student, signing an agreement about how the file will be used and then getting the file to the student, so although it's not very difficult, it can be a bit of a long-winded process, depending on the publisher and how quick they are to respond. It also obviously gets more difficult if you're trying to get older titles. The PDFs that I get sent are often the ones that have been sent to the printers, so they come with colour samples and other data on them but the text still works with screen readers, which is the main point really. Best wishes, Susan Hastie Student Support Librarian Learning Resources / Library Regent's University London, Inner Circle, Regent's Park, London, NW1 4NS T: +44 (0)20 3075 6239 | F: +44 (0)20 7487 7777 | E: [log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]> www.regents.ac.uk<http://www.regents.ac.uk> From: A general library and information science list for news and discussion. [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Steve Bowman Sent: 14 January 2015 09:36 To: [log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]> Subject: DSA Changes Hi All, In reading through the impact assessment<https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/392610/bis-14-1108-higher-education-disabled-students-allowances-equality-analysis-revised-16-12-2014.pdf> for the proposed transfer of funding for DSAs from central government to Universities, I came across the following statement (Para. 53); Many publishers have agreed to make alternative formats of their publications available to disabled students, online and at no cost. We wish to see this facility used widely and routinely. Has anyone come across this, as it seems contrary to the ethos of most academic publishers! Many Thanks, Steve b. 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