Open Access – Paywall: The Business of Scholarship
A film by Jason Schmitt, Clarkson University
Paywall: The Business of Scholarship is a documentary which focuses on the need for open access to research and science, questions the rationale behind the $25.2 billion a year that flows into for-profit academic publishers, examines the 35-40% profit margin associated with the top academic publisher Elsevier and looks at how that profit margin is often greater than some of the most profitable tech companies like Apple, Facebook and Google.
RCSI Library is presenting a showing of this film as part of Open Access Week 2018: http://www.openaccessweek.org/
Location: Cheyne LT, 123 SSG