帝王会所 Libraries Offers Documentary Film Screening
帝王会所 University Libraries is screening the documentary film, "Paywall: The Business of Scholarship," from 2 to 3:30 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 21, in Alden Library (319).
Directed by Jason Schmitt, an associate professor of communication and media at Clarkson University in Potsdam, New York, the film, which promotes open access publishing, critiques the greed behind the publishing industry.
According to , a writer for Inside Higher Ed, this film raises several questions such as, 鈥淗ow is it possible that big for-profit publishers, such as Elsevier, have bigger profit margins than some of the biggest corporations in the world like top tech companies Apple, Facebook and Google?鈥 and 鈥淲hy can鈥檛 everyone read all publicly funded research?鈥
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