eBooks, eTexts and Alternative formats

Before You Buy Books

Ebook Options

If you are enrolled and need alternative textbooks, audio, or ebooks, please start with option 1. If you are unable to acquire an ebook by using options 1 and 2, and you have a documented print-related disability, then option 3 is the step to take. If you are looking for an audiobook, most ebooks, etext, or Digital Editions can be read aloud by software or hardware and can be searched. Publishers and booksellers may also have a reading app for download or a web application on their site that you sign into for reading the ebooks. Freely available text-to-speech apps and browser extensions may be used in some cases.

Option 1

The book may be included in the course. Often a textbook is indicated as "all-inclusive" or "includED" which means that it will be provided at the book publisher's Learning Portal. The included ebook is usually accessed through Blackboard. Etext may also come as part of a package as indicated with a card that has an "access code" or "instant access" — you use a code at the publisher's website to access the ebook. After paying for classes, you may receive an email (from your instructor) with a link to the publisher's website and a code. These eBooks typically are searchable and have some accessibility features including colors, font size, and a read-aloud feature. You can often add an extension to your web browser to allow you to change the text to white with a black background. Fonts in your web browser can also be changed to help with dyslexia, dyscalculia, and dysgraphia

Option 2

Look for the ebook online that may already be available for your class. Search using the ISBN or search using the book title, edition, and author. ISBN numbers are 10 or 13-digit numbers used for uniquely identifying the book. You might find them in your class syllabus, within the first four to ten pages of the book(s), or when you go to TCC's bookstore to look up books using your class schedule info or the CRN, aka Course ID. There are sources that can help you locate eBooks or printed books: Students can purchase or rent books/etextbooks from places such as Vital Source, the publisher's website, Amazon, and our Bookstore—usually in PDF format. Students can cut out the middle man (Accessibility Resources) by checking these places before buying printed textbooks or contacting Accessibility Resources.

• TCC Library's eBooks page (Free for TCC students and staff!) has EBSCOHost eBooks & other eBook subscriptions that can be accessed through the TCC library eBooks page. Please sign in through MyTCC and then either navigate to the ebooks page or use the link provided to TCC Library's eBooks page. Search for full-text E-ARTICLES in TCC's Library articles databases online.
• Vital Source — Good source for accessible etexts/ebooks//digital books. Search by 10 or 13-digit ISBN—also try the title. This may also provide the publisher's name.
• Vital Source Special Request (link for Instructors, Librarians, and Accessibility Resources staff) Form for Assistance needed with contacting the publisher to find an Accessible etextbook or file. TCC/Accessibility Resources will use this.
• Publisher: BVT Publishing — offers etext/ebooks/digital books, either individually or in package deals.
• Publisher: Cengage Learning — offers etext/ebooks/digital books, either individually or in package deals.
• Publisher: McGraw-Hill Higher Ed — offers etext/ebooks/digital books, either individually or in package deals.
• Publisher: Pearson — offers etext/ebooks, either individually or in package deals.
• AHA Press Store, Digital — Medical Coding including ebook format. ICD-XX-CM and ICD-XX-PCS Coding Handbook.
• Optum360 Coding — Medical Coding including ebook format. ICD-XX-CM Professional for Hospitals.
• Campusbooks.com — Great site for finding low prices for rental and purchase.
• TCC Bookstore
• Amazon Textbooks
• Amazon Kindle books with Audible
• Kindle apps: Audio Accessibility Features
  • Listen to an Audio Companion
  • Kindle for PC Accessibility Features
  • Kindle for PC Keyboard Shortcuts
  • Kindle for Mac Keyboard Shortcuts

• Bookshare (Free! Who Qualifies? Sign up!): Bookshare makes reading easier. People with dyslexia, blindness, cerebral palsy, and other reading barriers can customize their experience to suit their learning style and find virtually any book they need for school, work, or the joy of reading. Bookshare is free for qualified students. Until you get a personal account set up, Accessibility Resources has an account that allows us to create accounts for TCC students with documented print-related disabilities. Once a student account is created, we can then assign books to the student for reading.

• Internet Archive (Free! Sign up!): The Internet Archive is a non-profit library of millions of free books, movies, software, music, websites, and more.

• Tulsa City-County Library & Remote Services. To qualify for a free library card, someone in your household must live, work, go to school or pay property taxes in Tulsa County, or live, work or go to school within the city limits of Bixby, Broken Arrow, Collinsville, Glenpool, Jenks, Owasso, Sand Springs, Skiatook, Sperry or Tulsa. If you do not meet the requirements for a card, you may purchase one for $50 per household per year.
  apply for a card online (This is the only available option while our buildings are closed.)

Option 3

If you have a documented print-related disability, and you can't find an accessible free or purchasable ebook (and software to read it out loud) for your class, AR can help you find a purchasable ebook, or request one. Start an email as follows.

Please start the subject line with:

[ebook request]

Publishers want to see that someone has purchased the book before sending an accessible copy. Accessible formats may be available, but they are not free. We will need to see the Book and receipt. You can present these at any Accessibility Resources location. We can scan the receipts, record your information, and book information. If you can't make it to an Accessibility Resources office, take a legible photo of the receipt with the book cover. Create an email, and address to ar@tulsacc.edu and attach the photos.

In the body of your email please include:

• Your First and Last name
• Your College-Wide ID
• Book Titles and editions
• ISBN numbers — are 10 or 13-digit numbers used for uniquely identifying the book. You might find them in your class syllabus, within the first four to ten pages of the book(s), or when you go to TCC's bookstore to look up a book using class schedule info, or on either cover of the book.

Finally, please email your ebook and audiobook requests to ar@tulsacc.edu.

Resources: The following are used when all else fails.

• Bookshare (Free! Who Qualifies? Sign up!): Bookshare makes reading easier. People with dyslexia, blindness, cerebral palsy, and other reading barriers can customize their experience to suit their learning style and find virtually any book they need for school, work, or the joy of reading. Bookshare is free for qualified students. Until you get a personal account set up, Accessibility Resources has an account that allows us to create accounts for TCC students with documented print-related disabilities. Once a student account is created, we can then assign books to the student for reading.
• Internet Archive (Free! Sign up!): The Internet Archive is a non-profit library of millions of free books, movies, software, music, websites, and more.