Access Copyright recently announced new offerings for Canadian Colleges & Universities, available beginning July 1, 2015.

These offerings were developed with input from Access Copyright's post-secondary education customers, in consultation with publisher and creator associations, and are designed to provide greater convenience, value and choice for customers along with appropriate rewards for the writers, visual artists and publishers whose works are valued and used every day.
 
They are also priced to reflect the current market uncertainty around fair dealing in education.
 
"We recognize the advances many institutions have made on content dissemination and the centralized management of copyright," said Roanie Levy, Executive Director of Access Copyright. "We've been across the country speaking to academic librarians and copyright administrators about their needs. Our message to them today is simple: Thank you. We hear you. We are changing."
 
Details of the new offerings are now publicly available on our website.

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