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What accessible books does Accessibility Library Celia produce?

Accessibility Library Celia produces accessible course books for students of higher education institutions who have reading impairments and who are studying in Finland, provided those books are not available in a suitable form elsewhere.

When necessary, Celia will produce up to the following numbers of accessible books for dissertations and theses

  • Proseminar: 5 works.
  • Laudatur seminar (advanced studies seminar): 8 works.
  • Master’s thesis: 8 works.
  • Licentiate’s thesis: 10 works.
  • Doctoral thesis: 15 works.

Celia does not produce

  • Books that are available in an accessible form somewhere else, such as e-books that can be listened to with various applications and other audio aids.
  • Supplementary reading materials; books recommended by the course leader that are not course books.
  • Law books (the Ministry of Justice’s FINLEX Data Bank can be found online)
  • Articles and book excerpts.
  • Dictionaries except in exceptional situations.

Acquisition requests

Acquisition requests can be made by students of Finnish higher education institutions who find it difficult to read printed text due to dyslexia, disability or illness. Celia does not produce books for students completing foreign degrees or parts thereof.

  • Before submitting an acquisition proposal, please check if the book is already available on Celianet.
  • Please also check if the book is available at your library as an e-book that can be listened to with an aid or application. Whether the book is available in an accessible form elsewhere will influence the production decision.
  • Coursebooks are produced for online listening, primarily as DaisyTrio text-to-speech books that contain text, charts and pictures in addition to audio.
  • Celia doesn’t produce coursebooks as audiobooks with human voice.
  • Subject to consideration, books can also be produced as accessible Luetus text-to-speech books and e-books.
  • Books take three months to produce. For particularly demanding books, the production time may be longer, in which case Celia will contact the student.
  • Go to the acquisition proposal form.

Accessible books in English, Swedish and other languages can also be found at