Industry committee  Part of it for us is both the flexibility as well as the efficiency. So while we have a lot of licensed content from five big vendors, some of which do include platforms, we would certainly be open to exploring that as a possibility because it's a model we're somewhat familiar wi

Industry committee  I certainly think there's been a trend at Guelph, and I don't think it's unique to Guelph. A reduced number of students are going into our College of Arts. The correlation that I was making, which is in part...I don't think there's a single cause and effect here. I think another

Industry committee  The reality with course packs is that their use and production have dropped precipitously over time. I have a data point here: for the summer of 2017, only a single course pack was produced for us, and there were only a handful in the fall and winter semesters, so that is a trend

Industry committee  Certainly not in our experience. We don't have a mechanism for monitoring, but I think that because we have had a set of practices in place for so long—there's a lot of communication that happens with new faculty who come to campus; there's engagement with students; and there are

Industry committee  I'm going to ask my colleague Heather Martin to speak to that, because I wasn't at the university when that decision was made.

Industry committee  It's purely content.

Industry committee  It's going to the publishers, primarily.

Industry committee  Excuse me: I'm looking at my expert. Yes, it's going to the publishers.

Industry committee  We participate in licensing at the national level through the CRKN, which you heard from in Ottawa. Those would be the five major publishing entities. Those licences get paid on an annual basis, so they represent a significant portion of this.

Industry committee  I can only hazard a guess at this point. It's probably 50%—at least.

Industry committee  That's correct.

Industry committee  In terms of the names?

Industry committee  They are Springer, Wiley, Elsevier, Taylor & Francis.... I'll have to figure out what the fifth one is.

Industry committee  Yes. It goes to resources like JSTOR, online scientific resources that are more index in nature and provide access to resources, as well as to print materials: books, a very limited number of print journals anymore, and electronic books, which we typically purchase packages for.

Industry committee  Sure.