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

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)

Trailer

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