&quot;UdeM Libraries will renew access to 150 of the 2,266 journals included in this collection. The price we will pay for these individual subscriptions in 2016 is the same we were willing to pay for the entire collection.&quot;<p>So Springer still gets all the moneys they could have gotten anyway.<p>I totally understand why the library has to make such a compromise, but that&#x27;s not a very strong bargaining position.