Industry committee  I think open access is absolutely the way of the future, and something that we, as academic libraries in this region, are very committed to. For example, UNB has an institutional repository that we've invested heavily in developing. It means all our publications that are created

Industry committee  The Copyright Board isn't sufficiently timely in its decision-making. I would certainly echo the comment that Andrea has made. I think it's really important that their decisions be prospective and not retrospective. Especially given the delay in their decision-making, combining t

Industry committee  I'd be happy to add that I believe that there are grants through Canada's Council for the Arts, as well we can look at the public lending right and how that could potentially be expanded to an educational context, and look at regional publishers in particular that are always goin

Industry committee  That's a figure we could submit, but just to be clear, it doesn't refer exclusively to licensing costs. It includes salary costs as well.

Industry committee  It's very hard for academic libraries to determine what's Canadian content—

Industry committee  —because what we're well aware of is that a lot of Canadian authors aren't writing in Canadian publications. I just want to be clear on the question.

Industry committee  I think all I would add is we know that student demand for a need for data is increasing. If the committee is looking at preparing for the five years coming up, it is an opportunity to be addressing what we certainly see as information needs on the horizon.

Industry committee  I think one of the things that's really important to be aware of is that most of the creators whose work we purchase are working within the academic context, so we're buying their works as part of our journal packages, as part of our e-book packages. Most of our creators—and many

Industry committee  From our perspective, the policy would be to ensure that the material is replaced with an appropriate version of it. I can't say what would happen because I haven't encountered a full item being copied and made available to students at UNB.

Industry committee  From the library's point of view, our job is not to do that. Our job is to ensure that it doesn't happen and we do a good job of it, but I will defer to my president.

Industry committee  One of the aspects we're very pleased about that we're undertaking at the University of New Brunswick is our course reserve system that is integrated with our copyright office. For example, UNB online, our online course offerings, are all required to go through the course reserve

Industry committee  Our examples are based on instructors forwarding their proposed readings to us. We're able to say to them, “Before that goes forward, we're going to need to find a transactional licence for that”, or “If you're interested in linking to that title, we'll buy it in e-book form.”

Industry committee  My answer is very similar to Donna's, from Dalhousie, and similar to universities across the country. We're paying the vast majority of the millions of resources that we spend on library acquisitions to licensed electronic products, academic publishing. These are materials that a

Industry committee  That's where most of our money goes. At UNB we spend about half a million dollars on print resources in addition to our electronic licensed products.

Industry committee  I'll add that we buy the papers of regional authors to add to our archives and special collections. At UNB we have the only collection of Atlantic Canadian children's literature.