Accessibility Guides
- Creating Accessible Digital MaterialsGuidelines for instructors creating accessible materials from Northern Illinois University
- National Center on Accessible Educational Materials for LearningInfo from the AEM Center on providing accessible materials for all learners.
Featured Resources
- Project MUSE This link opens in a new window
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Full text of current issues (from about 1990) of scholarly journals published by university presses, chiefly in the arts, humanities and social sciences. Browsable by discipline and full-text searchable across all disciplines. UCLA has access to Muse e-books published from 2017-present, plus a selected number of other e-book titles.
- JSTOR This link opens in a new window
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Full text back issues of core scholarly journals, browsable and searchable across multiple disciplines. Coverage starts with first issue, with moving wall for most recent 3-5 years. UCLA has access to selected JSTOR e-books only. JSTOR also includes primary source collections, including images from Artstor.
- Autism Media Lab at UCLASix short documentary films by the 2019 Autism Media Lab explore inclusion of people with autism in education, employment, friendship, public safety, health care, and religious communities. Each film has a corresponding Tool Kit to guide conversations around each film and topic.
- National Arts & Disability CenterThe National Arts and Disability Center (NADC) was created to promote the inclusion of audiences and artists with disabilities into all facets of the arts community.
- The Disability Rights and Independent Living Movementa rich collection of primary sources exploring the social and political history of the disability movement from the 1960's to the present, including oral histories and archival papers.
Encyclopedias
Encyclopedia of Disability by ISBN: 0761925651Date: 2005More than 500 world-renowned scholars have written over 1000 entries, in a clear, accessible style, with the desire to bring all students, researchers, and interested readers closer to the daily experience of disability.
Recommended Books
Handbook of Disability Studies by ISBN: 0761916520This path-breaking international handbook of disability studies signals the emergence of a vital new area of scholarship, social policy and activism. Drawing on the insights of disability scholars around the world and the creative advice of an international editorial board, the book engages the reader in the critical issues and debates framing disability studies and places them in an historical and cultural context.
Inclusion, Disability and Culture by Call Number: Online AccessISBN: 3319552236This book provides a global and social examination of how disabilities are played out and experienced around the world. It presents auto-ethnographic perspectives on disability across cultures, societies, and countries by documenting individuals' personal narratives, thought processes and reflections. Chapter authors share cross-cultural perspectives within and across various countries, such as India, Australia, United States, Sri Lanka, United Kingdom, Croatia, Brazil, South Africa, and Qatar.
The Routledge Handbook of Disability Activism by Call Number: Online AccessISBN: 1351165089This comprehensive handbook emphasizes the importance of everyday disability activism and how activists across the world bring together a wide range of activism tactics and strategies. It also challenges the activist movements, transnational and emancipatory politics, as well as providing future directions for disability activism. With contributions from senior and emerging disability activists, academics, students and practitioners from around the globe, this handbook covers broad themes within the field of disability studies.
Journals
- Alter. European Journal of Disability ResearchAlter European Journal of Disability Research is a quarterly peer-reviewed journal, published in two languages, English and French, and dedicated to research in the humanities and social sciences on disability.
- Canadian Journal of Disability StudiesThe Canadian Journal of Disability Studies publishes peer-reviewed original articles that advance research in the multidisciplinary, international field of disability studies.
- Disability & Society
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Disability & Society is an international journal providing a focus for debate about such issues as human rights, discrimination, definitions, policy and practices. It appears against a background of change in the ways in which disability is viewed and responded to. Definitions of disability are more readily acknowledged to be relative; segregated approaches are seen as inadequate and unacceptable - placing greater emphasis on community care and inclusion. However, policy intentions may not have the desired effects on the realities of everyday practice and policy changes themselves may be merely cosmetic, or appropriate but unfounded. - Disability Law Journal at UCLA(DLJ) focuses on current topics in disability law and related fields. The DLJ seeks to develop a discourse regarding disability law by publishing articles; editorials; and interviews of practitioners, academics, policymakers, and other members of the disability law community. The DLJ also seeks to recognize the contributions to the field of disability law made by scholars before the establishment of the DLJ, and we do so by republishing relevant scholarship as necessary. The ultimate mission of the DLJ is to create a repository of disability law scholarship.
- Disability Studies QuarterlyDisability Studies Quarterly (DSQ) is the journal of the Society for Disability Studies (SDS). It is a multidisciplinary and international journal of interest to social scientists, scholars in the humanities and arts, disability rights advocates, and others concerned with the issues of people with disabilities.
- Journal of Literary & Cultural Disability StudiesFocusing on cultural and especially literary representations of disability, Journal of Literary & Cultural Disability Studies (JLCDS) publishes a wide variety of textual analyses that are informed by disability theory and, by extension, experiences of disability. Click on the link to get to the online issues.
- Review of Disability StudiesRegister to create a free account and access the articles.