Readers with Special Needs

Contact the RUDN Library Staff before your visit by e-mail library@rudn.ru or by the Chat on the Library's homepage

Services

 

apply for

 

  • personal library service and librarian escort
  • meeting you at the entrance if necessary
  • workplace equipped with an assistive computer
  • audio and video content available

Consultations

 

available offline and online

 

  • providing remote access to academic research databases
  • navigation for e-resources and literature search
  • registration in the scientific databases
  • selecting literature on a topic

 

Available online

platform functions for persons with visual impairment

  • Lan

    Access to textbooks, manuals, monographs and scientific journals.

    • Mobile Lan’ Application with a TTS (Text-to-Speech) feedback for visually impaired people
    • Audio books of different publishers, voiced by volunteers
  • National Electronic Library

    National Electronic Library

    Federal state information system created by the Ministry of Culture of the Russian Federation with the participation of major libraries, museums, archives, publishers and other copyright holders.

    Access to electronic library collections. Any user can view the catalog of publications and read for free works that have become public domain in Russia.

    A registered user gets the opportunity to use the expanded functionality of the portal - make bookmarks and notes on works, save quotes, search queries and other functions that make the process of working with the NEB portal more comfortable.

    For persons with disabilities: version for the visually impaired and version for the blind

  • Polpred.com / Полпред

    Media Review. News and analytics on various industries and economic sectors. Press reviews, analytical articles and reports, as well as a database with contacts of enterprises and organizations. Support for voice reading in Russian: voice assistants read the substantive part of articles aloud., read more about activating the function here

  • University library ONLINE

    Textbooks, study guides, monographs, periodicals, reference books, dictionaries, encyclopedias, etc., including the collection on the speciality of "Customs" and ArtPortal "World Art Culture".

    Available for persons with disabilities:

    • Get a text-to-speech output directly from the website using screen access programs, such as Jaws or "Balabolka."
    • Audiobooks from various publishers
    • Books in the international standardized Daisy (Digital Accessible Information System) format with flexible navigation and content protection capabilities.
  • Urait - educational platform

    Textbooks and educational courses for all directions of training and specialties, along with available educational media materials, incl. for disabled people.



  • «Решение» - video library Educational game and documentary video cases, methodological and

    Specially developed educational game and documentary video cases, methodological and discussion films.

    For people with disabilities, the content is available with subtitles in Russian and English.