Behind the scenes of your textbooks: How digital access works in Canadian universities - The Brock Press

Behind the scenes of your textbooks: How digital access works in Canadian universities - The Brock Press

By this point in the academic term, most students will have reviewed their course syllabi and either purchased, rented or pirated physical or digital copies of their textbooks. In doing so, they reprise their roles as the final actors in a larger system of publisher licenses, library limitations and institutional programs that dictate what materials will — or will not — be accessed and taught.  Canadian universities are going through a transitio…