Thank you for considering contributing to our growing full-text virtual library on Independent Living and related themes.
We want our library to be a useful tool for - individuals with disabilities
and their families
- their organizations
- service providers
- policy makers
- researchers.
We would like to focus on
- practical information and examples of good practice in programs and policies,
- ways for helping people to get closer to self-determination through personal
strategies, services that liberate us instead of limiting us (as is often the
case) and role models
The themes we are interested in are
- Independent Living in all its ramifications including
- personal assistance
- accessibility
- anti-discrimination legislation
- advocacy
- peer support
- in brief, everything that truly promotes the equalization of our opportunities.
The documents can be, among other things,
- letters, poems, personal accounts or reflections
- articles
- training manuals
- monographs or research reports
- project proposals
- project evaluations or policy analysis,
- conference proceedings
- legislative texts and commentaries
We are looking for texts
- that have no commercial value (since we cannot pay for them)
- for which you own the copyright
- that are not likely to lose their relevance over the next few years
- that are of interest to an international audience (as opposed to visitors
from one particular country only)
If you are interested in using our offer to review your text for inclusion in our library, please, read the guidelines for submission of texts below.
Thank you for your interest in our website. We would enjoy to cooperate with you.
Sincerely
Adolf D. Ratzka, PhD
Director
Format
We prefer texts in electronic format (because of the tremendous amount of work for scanning, doing OCR, proof-reading and formatting).
Please use attachments in Microsoft Word or Microsoft RTF format when sending us your articles, one attachment for each article. If you have them in other formats, we need to make sure that we have the compatible software first.
Submit your texts to admin@independentliving.org
Accompanying information
Each document that is submitted for inclusion in the Institute's virtual full-text library needs to be accompanied by the following three items:
1) Full bibliographical reference
The reference should contain all information necessary for citation in a scientific journal; easy to cut and paste; without author (s)'s academic or other titles; with date; with info about its first publication - if applicable - in a periodical, at a conference, etc. For format see example below.
The bibliographical information has to include the full first names of all authors, if available.
(The document's URL in our site as well as the date when the document was posted on our site will be added by our webmaster, once it is posted.)
2) Annotation (very brief summary)
The annotation makes up a new paragraph after the bibliographic reference (see above) and before the document text starts. The annotation contains
-a very brief reference to the author(s), title or position as well as other information about the author(s) which is relevant for the readers' understanding of the document
- very brief description of the document's theme and scope of not more than a maximum of three, four lines.
The annotation will be attached
a) to the link to your document in the Alphabetical List by Author on our Library entry page b) to any other internal link within our site to your document.
3) Keywords (for the respective page's metatags)
Keywords are to help readers in finding the document when searching in the web's search engines. There is no limit to the number of keywords used for a document. Together the keywords should define the document's issue, setting (in geography, time, population group or other relevant dimensions).
4) Example
Below is a complete example of keywords, title of document, bibliographical reference and annotation with their layout:
Keywords for metatags (not visible on webpage):
Disability, handicap, disabled, India, Asia, employment, work, unemployed, statistics, social policy, national policy, development
In quoting please use
Abidi, Javed. 1998. "We Must Learn to Exert Ourselves". First published in Deep Shihta, Journal of the Spastics Society of Eastern India, December 1998. Internet publicationURL: www.independentliving.org/docs1/abidi.html posted April 12, 2001
According to Abidi, Executive Director, National Centre for Promotion of Employment of Disabled, in India, with 60-70 million disabled people, disability is a social, socio-economic and development issue. Why is it not seen as a national issue?
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