Paywall: The Business of Scholarship Film Screening
Location
Dimond Library 235
Event Website
Paywallthemovie.com
Type
Presentation
Description
Paywall: The Business of Scholarship, produced by Jason Schmitt, provides focus 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.
Start Date
15-10-2018 12:00 PM
End Date
15-10-2018 1:00 PM
Paywall: The Business of Scholarship Film Screening
Dimond Library 235
Paywall: The Business of Scholarship, produced by Jason Schmitt, provides focus 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.
https://scholars.unh.edu/oaw/2018/presentations/2