[Cabs] Fw: [nfbwnews] FW: [bookshare-discuss] Greater Access to CollegeTextbooks

[Nehemiah Hall]

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From: randy black 
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This information came from the Bookshare list. 

Randy Black

 

 

From: Chela Robles [mailto:cdrobles693 at gmail.com] 
Sent: Thursday, September 10, 2009 2:08 PM
To: bookshare-discuss at freelists.org; bksvol-discuss at freelists.org
Subject: [bookshare-discuss] Greater Access to College Textbooks

 

Greater Access to College Textbooks 

 

The Association of American Publishers (AAP) has announced an agreement with the Alternative Media Access Center (AMAC), an initiative of the Georgia Board
of Regents and the University of Georgia, to develop and launch the AccessText Network, a comprehensive, national online system that will make it easier
and quicker for students with print-related disabilities, such as blindness, to obtain the textbooks they need for their college courses. 

 

The AccessText Network is leveraging QuickBase, an online database powered by Intuit Inc., to enable publishers and colleges to effectively combine and
share their resources and expertise to meet students' needs. AccessText Network, scheduled for beta launch in February 2009, will ensure that institutions
can more easily obtain information about publishers' course materials, request electronic text files and use more efficient acquisition and distribution
channels. 

 

AccessText Network is being funded through donations from publishers Cengage Learning; CQ Press; Macmillan; McGraw-Hill Education; Pearson; Reed Elsevier
Inc.; John Wiley & Sons; and W.W. Norton. 

 

For more information, contact:

 

Christopher Lee
Email: 
leecm at uga.edu
Web: 
http://www.accesstext.org

 

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