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- Subject: Materials availability for blind students interested in biology
- Message-ID: <1992Nov20.203248.1@venus.ycc.yale.edu>
- Date: 21 Nov 92 00:32:48 GMT
- Sender: kristoff@net.bio.net
- Organization: Yale Computer Center (YCC)
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- I am a blind undergraduate at Yale, studying both Political Science and
- Biology. Recently, the point was made to me that the extreme availability of
- materials which I have here may not be replicated at other, less well-endowed,
- institutions. Due to Yale's ability to pay for such things, it has not been
- problematic to transfer materials from printed to electronic format , when
- these conversions have been necessary.
- However, for many blind students interested in studying in the sciences,
- materials transfer is slow, delayed by the natural problems which taping (using
- audio cassettes), of materials often bring. The ability to get textbooks, (and
- especially journals), transferred to audio-available formats is there, but
- usually such transfers require money to complete. I would be very much
- interested in working with professors who are the authors of textbooks to see
- if their books could be made available to blind students via either FTP or
- through Recording For The Blind's "E-text" service which attempts to get books
- from publishers in ASCII so that students can read the books on their home
- computers.
- Also, anyone who is on the review staff of some of the major journals,
- particularly "Cell", and the journals relating to research in molecular
- biochemistry, I would much like to discuss conversions and availabilities for
- my own needs in graduate school, which I expect to enter in September of 1993,
- studying to work in the public policy area as it relates to research in
- cellular, developmental, molecular biochemistry, and genetics-related biology.
- Any assistance/interest in the above would be greatly appreciated.
- MattHew Weed,
- Yale/Silliman 93.
-