Industry committee  May I add something?

Industry committee  In concrete terms, we apply the 15% limit. When professors give library employees a list of texts they want to reserve digitally, which is the case for the vast majority of reserved works, we can very easily see whether the excerpt accounts for 15% of the content. We count the nu

Industry committee  My impression is that the inventory matches the requests. I just want to make one point here. The scientific publishing market is really at the international level. Ninety-two per cent of our collections are non-literary materials. We love our friends, our publishers in Quebec a

Industry committee  Those increases are for acquisition of multimedia and digital material. As I mentioned, out of our budget, 90% goes to the acquisition of digital resources. These are resources for all of our community members, for the entire university community, as is the case for all the oth

Industry committee  It is quite the contrary, actually. At Concordia we decided, like a few other universities, to buy textbook materials, which was not necessarily the case before, in order to lower the barriers to knowledge and education. According to the number of students we have per course, w

Industry committee  They are also sold, yes.

Industry committee  It's not necessarily that way. The bookstore is selling textbooks to students, and we have a few copies at the library.

Industry committee  How many are not sold to the students?

Industry committee  I can't really answer that question. I don't know.

Industry committee  Good afternoon. At Concordia we have an acquisition budget of $7 million per year, of which 90% is devoted to digital resources. Of this number, we have the Copibec licence where we have $500K, and only $70,000 only for the digital resources that we put on e-reserves. Those are