Paywall: The Business of Scholarship (2018)
- Directed by
- Jason Schmitt
- Genre
- documentary film
- Country
- United States
- Runtime
- 1h 04m
- Rating
- 10.0 of 10 from 1 voters
- Elsewhere
- IMDb
The catalogue in 3D
The film shelves have a room of their own that you can walk around in. The cat behind the counter is the AI Catbot, and they pick real films from the same catalogue when you tell them what you feel like watching. Nothing is for sale, here or in there. Go in from here and this film is already out on the counter, with more like it waiting on the shelf next to it.
How it feels
This documentary looks at how academic publishers make a lot of money and what that means for research. It shows the work of people who want to make research free to read online.
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What happens
Paywall: The Business of Scholarship is a 2018 American documentary film directed by Jason Schmitt. It documents the high profits and business practices of the academic publishing industry and the efforts of the open access movement to reform it. The film premiered at the Landmark Theater (E-Street) in Washington, DC on September 5, 2018, and was subsequently freely released online under a Creative Commons license Attribution 4.0 in keeping with the spirit of the film. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)
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