October 23 - 29, 2023 | Everywhere

Paywall: The Business of Open Scholarship

Event Details

Time: October 24, 2018 from 12pm to 1:30pm
Country: Canada
Street: Building 305, Room 509, 900 Fifth St
City/Town: Nanaimo
Event Type: film
Organized By: VIU Library & VIUSU
Latest Activity: Oct 18, 2018

Export to Outlook or iCal (.ics)

Event Description

Join VIUSU and Vancouver Island University Library for a free screening of Paywall: The Business of Scholarship. This documentary 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.

This event is part of Open Access Week, http://www.openaccessweek.org/