WEBSITES FOR UDL

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Products and Information - Digital Media

Abacci Books
Organization: Abacci Books
http://www.abacci.com/books/

Online digital text with review: Project Guttenberg meets Amazon.com

Alex: A Catalog of Electronic Texts
http://www.infomotions.com/alex//

This site contains a catalog with roughly 2,000 entries of e-texts, mostly on gopher servers. Last update of site was in 1996.

American Library Association
Organization: American Library Association
http://www.ala.org/ala/alsc/greatwebsites/greatwebsiteskids.htm

List of links to literature and language Web sites for children

Assistive Media
http://www.assistivemedia.org/

Assistive Media (AM), based in Ann Arbor Michigan-USA, was founded in 1996 as a non-profit producer and provider of audiocassette-based literary works to libraries for the blind and physically handicapped. In early of 1998, a move was implemented for the application of this audio service through the Internet. Assistive Media now provides copyright-approved, high caliber audio literary works to the world-wide disability community via the Internet effectively, inexpensively and efficiently.

Children's Literature Web Guide
http://www.acs.ucalgary.ca/~dkbrown/

Comprehensive listing of links to gathered online resources pertaining to literature for children and young adults.

Electronic Text, Journals, Newsletter, Magazines, and Collections
Organization: North Carolina State University Libraries
http://www.lib.ncsu.edu/

A collection of on-line listings of places to go to to download e-text of collected works, magazines, newsletters, and scholarly journals.

Elibrary
http://www.elibrary.com/

Subscription site - enormous selection of resources.

ILTweb Academic Resources: Digitexts
Organization: Institute for Learning Technologies (Columbia University)
http://www.ilt.columbia.edu/publications/digitext.html

E-text source for academic text and links to other projects. At this particular location, there are links to E-text sources for Dewey, Aristotle, Machiavelli, Socrates, Emerson and more.

Internet Public Library
http://www.ipl.org/

Links to picture books, short stories, poetry, myths, fables, magazines and info about authors.

Literature Online from Chadwyck
http://lion.chadwyck.com/

A fully searchable library of over 250,000 works of English and American literature.

Project Gutenberg
http://www.promo.net/pg/

Light literature (such as Alice in Wonderland, Peter Pan, or Aesop's Fables), heavy literature (such as Moby Dick or Paradise Lost), and references (such as almanacs, encyclopedias, or dictionaries) in downloadable formats

Recording for the Blind and Dyslexic
http://www.rfbd.org/

RFB&D is a national nonprofit organization that serves people who cannot read standard print because of a visual, perceptual or other physical disability. The web site provides information on how to be involved with RFB&D, an online catalog of RFB&D's collection of books, and technology updates.

Texas Text Exchange
http://tte.tamu.edu/

The Texas Text Exchange (TTE) is consortium of disability service providers who share electronic texts (e-texts) with each other. These e-texts are used to accommodate students with disabilities. The TTE also provides information on the creation and use of e-texts. The TTE maintains an online digital library of e-texts. The library is administered by Adaptive Technology Services at Texas A&M University in College Station, Texas. Holdings are accessible only by TTE consortium members.

The Electronic Text Center
http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/english.html

Extensive listing of prose and poetry e-text available for downloading.

The Etext Archive
http://www.etext.org/

This site has a listing of eclectic subject matter to download as e-text.

The On-Line Books Page
http://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/

The On-Line Books Page is a directory of books that can be freely read right on the Internet. It includes: An index of thousands of on-line books on the Internet, pointers to significant directories and archives of on-line texts and special programs.

WebABLE!
http://www.webable.com/

Web directory for disability-related internet resources.