Disabled students: AccessText Network electronic books

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The AccessText Network facilitates and supports the national delivery of

alternative electronic textbooks to higher education institutions for students

with documented disabilities.

AccessText provides these textbooks by leveraging an online database powered by

Intuit QuickBase® and incorporating publisher-provided information on thousands

of textbook titles.

By joining the AccessText Network, members will be able to: Request publisher

files more efficiently Access major publishers. One place. The AccessText

Network puts you in a direct, streamlined publisher relationship like never

before.

Easy access to publishers who create 92% of all college textbooks.

More publisher files delivered. Less chopping and scanning. Reduced office

costs.

Search, link and share formatted files

The AccessText Exchange lets you share and access formatted files from peer

libraries and major repositories more efficiently than ever.

Exchange files from approved libraries starting in spring of 2010.

Federated search.

Track what's coming in, what's going out

The AccessText Dashboard is a powerful web-based data management tool that

brings order to your tracking, record-keeping and reporting process.

At-a-glance tracking of requests, approvals, and fulfillment.

Organized, automated way to maintain records and create reports.