RNIB Bookshare (UK Education Collection) provides more than a million titles from more than 700 publishers.
With RNIB Bookshare, the Royal National Institute of Blind People opens up the world of reading in education for learners with a print-disability. These high-quality digital versions can be accessed via screen-reading and text-to-speech software to listen to the books or via magnification software to enlarge them without losing image quality.
RNIB Bookshare is available to all print-disabled students
Students with an independent RNIB Bookshare membership can:
- search for texts across a wide range of subjects for university study and reading for leisure
- listen to books with high quality text-to-speech voices
- hear and see highlighted words on screen
- read with digital braille or enlarged fonts
- create physical braille or large print
- read directly from an Internet browser
Staff can use RNIB bookshare to check on the availability of Tactile Images. For example, Science: anatomy and medicine related images
Copyright & terms of use
Under the Copyright and Related Rights (Marrakesh Treaty etc) (Amendment) Regulations 2018, the books on RNIB Bookshare are available for access by visual and print-disabled students worldwide.
Members must abide by the copyright permission systems of the books they download (i.e., they must not share them). Each download contains embedded information that allows it to be traced to an individual user account. This allows unlawful sharing of an item to be traced back to the user who originally downloaded it.
More legal information regarding books from RNIB Bookshare can be found on the RNIB Bookshare legal page.
Students are required to complete a copyright user-agreement as part of the membership registration.