Digital Textbooks
About Kentucky Accessible Materials Database (KAMD) Digital Textbooks
In 2002, the Kentucky Senate passed Senate Bill 243 which required that any publisher of a textbook adopted for use in K-12 public schools provide those textbooks in an accessible electronic format in order to assist schools in meeting their obligation to provide equal access to the general curriculum for students with disabilities. SB 243 also established the need for facilitating the timely delivery of these accessible instructional materials to schools. To accomplish this, the Kentucky Accessible Materials Database (KAMD) was established in October 2003.
One of the missions of the Kentucky Accessible Materials Database (KAMD) is to provide K-12 Kentucky public schools a way to discover what instructional materials are available in digital format, and to provide a method for schools to acquire these digital materials for use by qualified students with disabilities while at the same time protecting the publishers' intellectual property rights (i.e., copyright). In addition to the review and distribution of copyrighted digital textbooks, the KAMD provides training and technical assistance to publishers and schools regarding file preparation and the use of accessible instructional materials in the classroom.
Requesting A Digital Textbook
Digital textbooks are requested by the school’s appointed Digital Rights Manager (DRM). These materials can only be requested for and be used by qualifying students with disabilities who are currently enrolled in the school.
If you are a principal needing to appoint a Digital Rights Manager (DRM), please review the information contained within the “About Digital Rights Management” portion of this website. Then, complete the DRM Registration form. Once the DRM has been appointed, KAMD materials can be requested for use by qualifying students.
If you are a DRM needing to request a digital textbook, please review the FAQs related to “Requesting KAMD Digital Textbooks”. Then, complete the Digital Textbook Request form.
Before a school can request and receive materials from the KAMD, the following steps must be followed:
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Digital Rights Manager
The school’s principal must designate a building level staff person to be the Digital Rights Manager (DRM). The DRM is the local school level staff person deemed by the principal to be responsible for monitoring and documenting copyright compliance within the school.
2
Completed NIMAS Eligibility Form
The DRM must have a completed NIMAS Eligibility form signed by an appropriate “competent authority” on file for each student who will be receiving the digital file. NIMAS Eligibility Form (DOC), NIMAS Eligibility Form (PDF)
3
Instruction material purchase
The school must have purchased the print version of the instructional material being requested, and this print version must be available for student use.
4
KAMD Digital Textbook Request Form
The DRM must complete the KAMD Digital Textbook Request form
**NOTE: Schools that purchase textbooks that are not on the state multiple list (referred to as purchasing "off-list") are responsible for assuring that the publisher will submit the digital version of their books to the National Instructional Materials Access Center (NIMAC), the national repository for NIMAS file sets. This is assurance done through the completion of the OFF-List Notification Form. OFF-List Notification (DOC), OFF-List Notification (PDF)