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Textbook File Exchange Library Available With Premium Membership

AccessText Network publishers have authorized us to allow schools who have student-ready alternate media of complete textbooks in PDF, Word, DAISY, KESI, braille (embossed or electronic), and MP3 formats to exchange those files with other member schools.

Schools who contribute 25 or more files to the Exchange receive 12 months of access to the Exchange for free. If you contribute 50 or more files in one 12 month period it will count towards one additional year only.

Submission criteria for Exchange files

Your office performed additional work on the file to make it more accessible for a student or to convert it to a different format. You will be given the opportunity to describe the work you performed when uploading the file to the Exchange.

We can accept files for books by publishers who have agreed to participate in the Exchange. Currently, those publishers are:

BookLand Press
Cengage Learning
ECS Publishing
Elsevier / Lawrence Erlbaum Associates
F.A. Davis Company
Jones & Bartlett Learning
Kogan Page
Labyrinth Learning
Lynne Rienner Publishers
OpenStax, Rice University
Pearson Education
Pyrczak Publishing
Quintessence Publishing
Rodale Books
RosettaBooks
SAGE Publications, Inc.
Springer Publishing
W.W. Norton
Wiley
Wolters Kluwer/Aspen Publishers-LEGAL EDUCATION

Suggested Guidelines for PDF

Please note that you can contribute PDF files that do not meet all the below criteria. These are simply suggestions of how you could make the PDF more accessible.
- Files will have the text of the book in selectable format, either from the source file or by OCR.
- Files will be tagged with standard PDF tags to reflect the major divisions of the book and one or more levels of sub-sections as appropriate to provide useful navigation.
- Files will be Bookmarked with standard PDF bookmarks to reflect the major divisions of the book and one or more levels of sub-sections as appropriate to provide useful navigation.
- Files will have the appropriate language setting made.
- If the original file source was a publisher file, pages will be cropped to remove any extraneous markings.
- The page numbers as displayed in Acrobat will reflect the physical page numbers of the book.
- Tab order is set to ‘use document structure’.

Suggested Guidelines for Word

Please note that you can contribute DOC files that do not meet all the below criteria. These are simply suggestions of how you could make the DOC more accessible.
- Files will have standard Word heading styles applied to reflect the major divisions of the book and one or more levels of sub-sections as appropriate to provide useful navigation to the material.
- Relevant images have alternative text added.

How to Submit Files

Upload an individual file within the application

File:Submitting Exchange Files ATN2.pdf

Mail multiple files on a CD or DVD

You can submit files by mail by burning them to a CD or DVD and mailing to:

AccessText File Exchange
512 Means Street, Suite 250
Atlanta, Georgia 30318

Please include a spreadsheet or other listing that gives the ISBNs of the books being submitted.

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 ==Submission criteria for Exchange files==
-*All files being submitted must contain the complete text of the book. Please do not submit partial books or chapters.
+*Your office performed additional work on the file to make it more accessible for a student or to convert it to a different format. You will be given the opportunity to describe the work you performed when uploading the file to the Exchange.
-*Books should be the most current editions. Please do not submit books that have been replaced with newer editions.
-*Please do not submit books that were custom printed for your school.
+We can accept files for books by publishers who have agreed to participate in the Exchange. Currently, those publishers are:
-We can accept files for books by publishers who have agreed to participate in the Exchange. Currently, those publisher are:
+*BookLand Press
 *Cengage Learning
-*SAGE
+*ECS Publishing
-*F.A. Davis Company
+*Elsevier / Lawrence Erlbaum Associates
-*John Wiley & Sons
+*F.A. Davis Company
-*Lynne Rienner Publishers
+*Jones & Bartlett Learning
-*Pearson Education
+*Kogan Page
-*Elsevier
+*Labyrinth Learning
-*Springer Publishing
+*Lynne Rienner Publishers
-*W.W. Norton
+*OpenStax, Rice University
-*Jones & Bartlett
+*Pearson Education
+*Pyrczak Publishing
+*Quintessence Publishing
+*Rodale Books
+*RosettaBooks
+*SAGE Publications, Inc.
+*Springer Publishing
+*W.W. Norton
+*Wiley
+*Wolters Kluwer/Aspen Publishers-LEGAL EDUCATION
-===Guidelines for PDF===
+===Suggested Guidelines for PDF===
-* Files will have the text of the book in selectable format, either from the source file or by OCR.
+*Please note that you can contribute PDF files that do not meet all the below criteria. These are simply suggestions of how you could make the PDF more accessible.
-* Files will be tagged with standard PDF tags to reflect the major divisions of the book and one or more levels of sub-sections as appropriate to provide useful navigation.
+** Files will have the text of the book in selectable format, either from the source file or by OCR.
-* Files will be Bookmarked with standard PDF bookmarks to reflect the major divisions of the book and one or more levels of sub-sections as appropriate to provide useful navigation.
+** Files will be tagged with standard PDF tags to reflect the major divisions of the book and one or more levels of sub-sections as appropriate to provide useful navigation.
-* Files will have the appropriate language setting made.
+** Files will be Bookmarked with standard PDF bookmarks to reflect the major divisions of the book and one or more levels of sub-sections as appropriate to provide useful navigation.
-* If the original file source was a publisher file, pages will be cropped to remove any extraneous markings.
+** Files will have the appropriate language setting made.
-* The page numbers as displayed in Acrobat will reflect the physical page numbers of the book.
+** If the original file source was a publisher file, pages will be cropped to remove any extraneous markings.
-* Tab order is set to ‘use document structure’.
+** The page numbers as displayed in Acrobat will reflect the physical page numbers of the book.
-* File size should not exceed 25MB per individual file.
+** Tab order is set to ‘use document structure’.
-===Guidelines for Word===
-* Files will have standard Word heading styles applied to reflect the major divisions of the book and one or more levels of sub-sections as appropriate to provide useful navigation to the material.
-* Images in the text that are not captioned will have appropriate ‘alt-text’ added.  ‘alt text’ should begin with “Image starts.” and end with “Image ends.”
-* If additional files are used for supplementary material, an explanatory note should be included.
-* File size should not exceed 5MB per individual file.
-Note: publishers may not approve titles for the Exchange if they were custom published for your campus or are in a custom bundle of products.
-'''If you are interested in contributing DAISY, Braille, KESI or MP3 files to the Exchange, please email membership@accesstext.org'''
+===Suggested Guidelines for Word===
+*Please note that you can contribute DOC files that do not meet all the below criteria. These are simply suggestions of how you could make the DOC more accessible.
+** Files will have standard Word heading styles applied to reflect the major divisions of the book and one or more levels of sub-sections as appropriate to provide useful navigation to the material.
+** Relevant images have alternative text added.
 ==How to Submit Files==