Many people find it difficult to access the world of books. Whether through dyslexia, visual impairment or motor difficulties, thousands of ‘would be’ readers are destined to be ‘unable to’ readers. However, commonplace technologies can transform access to books. Where librarians and publishers work together to provide digital copies to disabled users, magnification, colour change, keyboard access and text to speech can transform the reading experience giving genuine independence to the user.
This site is designed to benefit two groups -
- educationalists seeking to source electronic formats of textbooks for students with disabilities, and
- publishers seeking to respond in a timely and effective manner to such requests. If you are from a publisher and would like your details to be added to this site please download this template and return the details to helpdesk@techdis.ac.uk with the subject line Publisher Lookup UK.
The three key aims of this site are
- to make it easier to find key contact details for publishers
- to make it easier for publishers to ensure enquiries get to the right department in the right timescale.
- to signpost supporting information and good practice with regard to accessible documents in an educational context.
Publishers A-Z
- Aber Education
- Aber Publishing
- Academic Press
- Addison Wesley
- Africa Research Ltd
- Alegro
- Anness Publishing Ltd - Book Trade Services
- Anthem Press
- Architectural Press
- Ashgate
- Association for Scottish Literary Studies
- Atlantic Books Ltd
- Atom
- Balkema
- Balliere Tindall
- Bantam Press
- Basil Blackwell & Mott
- Basil Blackwell Ltd.
- Basil Blackwell Publisher (Academic) Ltd
- BBC Active
- BFI Publishing
- Bios
- BLACK CATBOOKS
- Blackstone Press Ltd.
- Blackwell Publishing Ltd.
- Blackwell Raintree Ltd
- Blackwell Science Ltd
- Blackwell Scientific Publications
- Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
- Bodley Head Children’s Books
- Books for Midwives
- British Institute of Learning Disabilities (BILD)
- Burgdorf
- Butterworth-Heinemann
- C. Hurst and Co Publishers
- C. Hurst and Co. Publishers
- Cambridge University Press
- Cambridge-Hitachi
- Candle Books
- Canongate Books Ltd
- Carlton Books
- Causeway Press
- Cavendish/UCL Press
- Cell Press
- CGP books - Coordination Group Publications
- CGP Education
- CGP Study
- Chambers Publishers Ltd
- Chrysalis Books (Anova)
- Churchill Livingstone
- CIMA
- Clarendon Press
- Collins
- Collins Education
- Corgi Children’s Books
- D&C Group
- David Fickling Books
- David Fulton
- Digital Press
- Doubleday Children’s Books
- Doyma
- Edexcel
- Edinburgh University Press
- Editions Scientifique et Medicales Elsevier
- Editora Campus
- Edward Arnold
- Egmont UK Ltd
- Element
- Ellis Horwood
- Elsevier
- Elsevier Advanced Technology
- Elsevier Current Trends
- Elsevier Limited
- Elsevier Science
- EMC Encyclopédie Médico-Chicurgicale
- EMS Publishing
- Energy Economic Research Ltd
- Engineering Information
- Evans Publishing Group
- Excerpta Medica
- F-D-C Reports
- Faber and Faber
- Focal Press
- Fourth Estate
- Frank Cass
- Franklin Watts
- Frith Book Company Ltd
- Frith Publishing
- FT Prentice Hall
- Gale Virtual Reference Library, Gale Digital Collections, Primary Source Media
- Gale, part of Cengage Learning
- Gesundheitsdialog Verlag
- Ginn
- GL Assessment
- Global Grid for Learning
- Gordon & Breach
- Gostick Hall Publications
- Granada Learning Group
- Grant MacIntyre
- Gulf Professional Publishing
- Gustav Fischer
- Hachette UK
- Hanley & Belfus
- Harcourt (Health Sciences)
- Harlequin (UK) Ltd
- Harper
- Harper Perennial
- Harper Press
- Harper Sport
- Harper Voyager
- HarperCollins
- HarperCollins Children's Books
- HarperCollins Publishers Ltd
- Hart Publishing Ltd
- Harvester Wheatsheaf
- Hatchette Children's Books
- Haus & Groos
- Heinemann Education
- Hodder & Stoughton Educational
- Hodder Arnold
- Hodder Children’s Books
- Hodder Education
- Hodder Gibson
- Hodder Murray
- How To Books Ltd
- Human Behaviour Academy Ltd
- Hutchinson Children’s Books
- I.B.Tauris & Co Ltd
- Icon
- IMNG
- Infosource Inc
- Institute of Physics Publishing
- Institute of Physics Publishing
- Interédition
- IOP Publishing
- IRL Press
- JAI Press
- JEMS
- Jessica Kingsley Publishers Ltd.
- John Murray
- John Wiley & Sons Ltd
- Jonathan Cape Children’s Books
- Jordan Publishing Ltd
- Jungjohann
- Kingfisher Publications PLC
- Kogan Page Publishing
- Lancet, The
- Laurence King Publishing Ltd
- Learning Matters Ltd.
- Letts Educational
- Lion Books
- Lion Children’s
- Lion Hudson plc
- Little, Brown Book Group
- Lonely Planet
- Longman
- Lotus Publishing
- Lucky Duck Books
- Maclennan & Petty
- Macmillan Business Press
- Macmillan Press
- Made Simple Books
- Martin Robertson & Co Ltd
- Masson
- McGraw-Hill Education UK
- Medicine Publishing
- Mediscript
- MILLER'S PUBLICATIONS
- Mills & Boon.
- MIRA
- Miramoor Publications Ltd
- MMI éditions
- Monarch Books
- Morgan Kaufmann
- Mosby
- Mosby JEMS
- Mosby Yearbook
- Mr Educator
- NCC Blackwell Ltd
- Negocio Editora
- Nelson Thornes LTD
- Netter
- New Holland Publishers (UK) Lt
- Newnes
- Nicholas Brealey Publishing
- Nick Hern Books
- North Holland
- Oceana Publications
- Octopus Publishing Group Limited
- Oliver & Boyd
- Open University Press
- Orchard Books
- Orion Children’s Books
- Orion Publishing Group Ltd
- Osprey Publishing
- Oxford University Press
- O’Reilly Media Inc.
- O’Reilly UK Limited
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Paragon Books Ltd
- Paul Chapman Publishing
- Payne Galway
- PCCS Books
- PDxMD
- Pearson Education Ltd
- Penguin Readers
- Pergamon
- Pergamon Flexible Learning
- Perpetuity Press
- Phaidon Press Limited
- Philip Allen
- Philip Wilson Publishers
- Phillimore
- Pitkin
- Pitman
- Polity Marketing
- Prentice Hall
- Profile Books Ltd
- Psychology Press
- Puffin
- QED
- Quarto Publishing PLC
- Random house Children’s Books
- Red Fox Children’s Books
- Rigby
- Rising Stars UK Ltd
- Routledge (incl Croom Helm Academic, Curzon, Falmer, Methuen Academic, RKP, Tavistock, Unwin Hyman)
- Russell House Publishing Ltd.
- SAGE
- Salvat
- Saunders, W.B.
- SAV Spektrum Akademischer Verlag
- Scholastic UK Group
- Scottish Literature International
- Shakespeare Head Press Ltd
- Simon and Schuster UK Ltd
- Singing Dragon
- Spellmount
- Spon
- St Martin’s Press – Scholarly and Reference Titles
- Stanley Thornes (Publishers) Ltd
- Studymates
- Studymates Professional
- Sussex Academic Press
- Sutton
- Sweet and Maxwell
- T&F Informa UK Ltd
- Tamarind
- Tauris Academic Studies
- Tauris Parke Paperback
- Taylor & Francis
- teach yourself
- Tempus
- Thames & Hudson
- The Association for Information Management; Emerald Group Publishing Limited
- The Continuum International Publishing Group
- The Francis Frith Collection
- The History Press
- The 'Maths Is ...' Jugglers Ltd
- Thomson Reuters
- Thorsons
- Tieto Ltd
- Times Books
- Ullstein Medical
- Urban & Fischer
- Urban & Schwarzenberg
- Usborne Publishing
- Virago Press
- Walker Books
- Wayland.
- Wiley-Blackwell
- Wilmington Publishing & Information Ltd
- Wolters Kluwer Health (P & E) Ltd
- Wright
- Yearbook
- York Notes
- ZigZag Education