Hi all,

 

We have been trialling Load2Learn which has helped a great deal in administering the whole request process. Jisc TechDis certainly recommended it and we have found it to be a really good resource.

 

Best regards,

Ben

 

Ben Watson

Academic Liaison Librarian (Social Sciences)

Templeman Library

Information Services

Templeman Library

University of Kent

Canterbury

CT2 7NU

 

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Hi all

 

Contacting individual publishers for cds, single and multiple pdfs of alternative format books for disabled students is part of what I do at Warwick.

 

Over the past 3 years I’ve requested 173 alternative formats, 46 of which publishers haven’t been able to provide as they have been old books.

 

On the whole the publishers do provide the files, but as already mentioned the process is time consuming.

 

Can anyone tell me how their university approaches the copyright issue, i.e. signing the publisher T & Cs and making sure that the student adheres to them?

 

Thanks for any replies

 

Nick Williams

 

Resources Officer (Acquisitions & Reading Lists)

The Library

University of Warwick

Gibbet Hill Road

Coventry

United Kingdom

CV4 7AL

:  (+44) (0) 24 765 23702

 

 

Hello,

 

As part of the digitisation service we provide to students with special needs we have been contacting publishers over the past 5 years or so and have received PDFs for free whenever the publisher had them available. We would only request publishers PDFs or Word documents for books that we have available in the Library.

As Susie Hastie mentions on her message this process takes quite some time.

 

Last semester we had very good results with Bloomsbury, Sage, Routledge, Cambridge University Press, Intellect Books, McGraw-Hill Education, Pan Macmillan, Quercus Books.

Some of them sent us CDs, the PDF via email or the FTP link.

 

We also contacted a few publishing houses that never replied to us.

 

Last semester we purchased a PDF from Hodder & Stoughton publishers as they clearly told us we could not scan the book in house to provide it to one of our students with special needs.

 

The Open University Press also replied to one of our requests telling us to purchase the PDF from their online shop.

 

Regarding electronic resources, some of our students with special needs have reported finding difficult to navigate through so on occasions we had to digitise electronic  resources for those students.

 

Last semester we had a particular high number of requests and a result we will be investigating options such as Load2learn. I would also like to know more about how other institutions deal with requests from students with special needs … so should be contacting you soon!   

 

Please see below the email template we use for contacting publishers. When required we complete their specific form providing further details on the specific student, course, etc.

 

Dear Sir/Madam

As part of the digitisation services we provide to students at University of Roehampton, we are responsible for improving access to the library holdings for our students with special needs.

We have received a digitisation request from one of our students with special needs for the following book(s) available in our collection:

Author of the book:

Title of the book:

Year of publication:

ISBN:

Would it be possible for NAME PUBLISHER HERE to supply the item(s) in WORD/Searchable PDF format?

Yours sincerely,

 

 

Best wishes,

 

 

Tania Durt
Digitisation & Document Delivery Co-ordinator
Library Services
University of Roehampton | London | SW15 5SZ
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