Industry committee  The tri-agency is working on a research data policy that will be a companion to their open access policy, making it a requirement to submit your dataset in addition to an open access copy of your publication. The Council of Atlantic University Libraries and CARL, the Canadian Ass

Industry committee  I do. But first I just want to say the Canadian publisher data indicated that the Access Copyright royalty has declined only by 1%, and that was a published statistic. There are better ways to support Canadian culture than fair dealing. The Canada book fund, the SSHRC aid to sc

Industry committee  Yes. In Europe, they have a Europe 2020 program where they're committing to make many of their publications open access by 2020. The libraries work with the journal to create a sustainable open-access model, funding them largely to the same extent that we do now through a commerc

Industry committee  Coalition Publi.ca is a Canadian project to do that with the journals that are currently published by Érudit, which is a Canadian publishing platform.

Industry committee  Form every small press in Canada, and everything that's published in Atlantic Canada.

Industry committee  What we do is educate to prevent that sort of material, and—

Industry committee  If we had any evidence of this sort of illegal photocopying going on, I think we'd be more concerned. We're finding that, with the transactional licences where we pay for what we use, it's really a more equitable way for us to manage our money. Libraries never have enough money

Industry committee  That was one case in a primary school, not a university. In favour of digital locks, this is why there are TPMs, to prevent some of that reproducing.

Industry committee  Is that a rhetorical question?

Industry committee  Yes, that's a valid point, but we do not see any evidence of that sort of illegal reproduction. The only time young people are interested in even reproducing material like that is often when they want to create their own content, which is allowed if they're doing it in small amou

Industry committee  It's 10% or a chapter, whichever is less. Certainly for other works, like a poem or a short story, we wouldn't.... It's not the same consideration. You treat it as a whole and—

Industry committee  —you pay for the use of that.

Industry committee  To augment what Lesley said, in addition to what we purchase through the large licences at Dalhousie, for instance, we have the Canadian small press collection. We attempt to purchase everything that is published by a small press in Canada. We purchase two copies of everything to

Industry committee  No. With print materials, if somebody were to take it out of the library and go to another location and scan it, we wouldn't know. Our print circulation, for instance, is declining fairly rapidly. Most students really do want born-digital materials now, in very short snippets,

Industry committee  They don't want to read anything longer than three paragraphs.