The document discusses the different methods and costs for providing accessible books to visually impaired students at the University of Dundee. There are 4 main stages: 1) checking for accessible online books, 2) searching for commercial ebook availability, 3) requesting accessible files from publishers, and 4) in-house production. Stage 1 has no cost if books are accessible, while later stages like in-house production can cost over £50,000 annually to support multiple students. The university aims to balance timely access with cost-effectiveness across these various options.
Measures of Central Tendency: Mean, Median and Mode
Accessible Book provision at Dundee University
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Accessible Book
provision at
Dundee?
Andy McMahon &
Anna Symeonides
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Current Provision & Costs
• Aim to deliver materials in a cost effective way, within a
reasonable time scale
• 4 methods/stages of obtaining books with varying costs
and time scales
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DUNDEE’S APPROACH
A quick run through of how we provide
alternative formats for our students highlighting costs as we go through
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STAGE 1 – Check our online book
collection
Generally found to be mixed accessibility
levels and difficult to use
Time required for specialist to test access and
train disabled individuals to gain access
If accessible and guidance is available on how to
access with assistive technology
Cost
≈£10,000 per
annum
≈£0 per
annum
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Stage 1 - Online book evaluation
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Stage 1 – Assuming all books available from
accessible e-book subscription
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STAGE 2 – Source Commercial
Availability
• iBooks (≈£30 per book)
• Kindle books (≈£30 per book)
• RNIB books (≈£80 per annum)
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iPad Mini & VLE Delivery
• We can lend 1 iPad mini, per person – with books pre
loaded to comply with copyright
• iPod for Blind Students
• VoiceOver for Text2Speech for reading out material
• iBooks & Kindle apps have the ability to enlarge text
• PDF documents
• my.dundee.ac.uk – the University of Dundee’s online
Virtual Learning Environment is used to store books
and grant access to people who are authorised
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Stage 2 -Assuming all books are commercially
available & accessible
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STAGE 3 - Request source PDF from the
publisher
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www.publisherlookup.org.uk/
Email & ask publisher
yes/no/no-reply
Agree to terms and conditions and return form
Receive instructions on how to access book, Download Book
(or wait for CD)
Comply and implement T&C’s
Deliver book to the student via my.dundee.ac.uk
If the book is a structured PDF and accessible we calculate it
costs £50 in admin and compliance time. (We estimate
publisher cost must be similar or more)
In-accessible formats or delayed response from publishers
see DIY costs (stage 4)
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Stage 3 -Costs if standard T&Cs are adopted
by all publishers
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STAGE 4a – In House Production
Option ‘A’ – Fully accessible book
via flat bed scanner (opticBook &
abbyy Finereader)
Cost
Salary(s) -
≈£35,000
Equipment and operational cost
≈£16,000
Novel type book ≈ 3 minutes per page@ £10
per hour (Workers and/or volunteers)
Scientific/academic type book ≈ 6-10 minutes
per page@ £10 per hour (Workers and/or
volunteers)
£0.50
per page
£1.66
per page
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STAGE 4b – In House Production
Option ‘B’ – Duplex scanner & auto
OCR (no errors correction)
Cost
Salary(s) -
≈£35,000
Equipment and operational cost
≈£16,000
Book ≈ 9 seconds per page. 50+ pages to be cost
effective
Correction on request for text, Diagrams, images,
tables
2.5p
per page
£1.66
per page
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STAGE 4c – Out Source
Option ‘C’ – Outsource work
Cost
Salary(s) – coordination costs
≈£13,500
Outsource book
≈£10.75
per page
NB: 400 page academic book (printed version), £4300 outsource
costs, £560 internal costs
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ANNUAL COST – MIXED PROVISION
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Internal production costs 2011/2012
• ≈ £50,000,( ≈£124,000 if outsourced)
• 7 students with mixed provision, requirements and
different course demands
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Costs as they are now
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A free cuddly toy?
we will be switching provider to reduce costs
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Some Suggested Solutions
• When procuring online e-book resources, accessibility
is essential. It is not enough to trust a generic
statement about accessibility from the supplier. Ask for
case studies and evidence.
• Staff = Costs, it is cheaper to procure an iPad mini and
a digital copy of a e-book
• ePub3 format has accessibility options of DAISY
• Encourage publishers to adopt standard terms &
conditions when requesting books
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The End
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Notes
• Additional information
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New report
• Detailed report into how 4 Scottish universities provide
material
• http://www.ecu.ac.uk/publications/digitisation-andreformatting-scottish-he
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Timeline of funding & provision
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Contact Details
• Andy McMahon
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Twitter:
Email:
Tel:
Web:
@at_andy
a.z.mcmahon@dundee.ac.uk
01382 388787
blog.Dundee.ac.uk/altformats/
• Anna Symeonides
– a.y.symeonides@Dundee.ac.uk
– Web: blog.Dundee.ac.uk/altformats/
– Tel: 01382 388744
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