Paywall: The Business of Scholarship

Thurs, Oct 25, 2-3 p.m.: L10 Alcove

Join us for a screening of selected clips from Paywall: The Business of Scholarship that raise various questions such as the problems created by paywalls to scholarly information for citizens in general, for libraries, for researchers, and for scholarship itself; the experiences of individuals in dealing with paywall barriers to needed information; the deficiencies of our current scholarly communication system that might be alleviated by OA; some success stories of paywalled journals that have been converted to OA; some impediments to converting paywalled journals to OA; and any concerns or downsides of OA in general. A lively panel discussion will respond to these and other issues raised by the film and the audience.

Posted on: October 25, 2018