About the film: Paywall: The Business of Scholarship is a documentary which:

• 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.

Produced and directed by Jason Schmitt, Clarkson University, NY

A free public screening of the movie will be held on:

Date: Wednesday, October 24, 2018

Time: Film 2 - 3:30 p.m. Panel discussion to follow ending at 4:30 p.m.

Where: UVic Libraries, Digital Scholarlship Commons, William C. Mearns Centre for Learning - McPherson Library, Room A308

Refreshments are provided. Please register your attendance.

The film is also available to stream for free here: https://paywallthemovie.com/