Paywall: The Business of Scholarship

Paywall: The Business of Scholarship
Directed byJason Schmitt
Produced byJason Schmitt
StarringAmy Brand, Leslie Chan, Paul Ginsparg, Paul Peters, Heather Joseph, Brian Nosek, Alexandra Elbakyan, Peter Suber, Vitek Tracz, John Wilbanks
CinematographyRussell Stone
Music byJonathan Mann
Release dates
  • September 5, 2018 (2018-09-05) (Landmark Theater, Washington DC)
Running time
65 minutes[1]
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish

Paywall: The Business of Scholarship is a 2018 American documentary film directed by Jason Schmitt. It documents the high profits and business practices of the academic publishing industry and the efforts of the open access movement to reform it. The film premiered at the Landmark Theater (E-Street) in Washington, DC on September 5, 2018, and was subsequently freely released online under a Creative Commons license Attribution 4.0 in keeping with the spirit of the film.[2]

Reception

The documentary has received reviews in many outlets including Inside Higher Ed, Nature, New Scientist, Endeavour, and Research Features.[3][4][5][6][7]

Budget

To support the filmmaker and his team to create this film and release it online for free, it received funding support from a charitable grant from Open Society Foundations.[8]

References

  1. ^ "Paywall: The Business of Scholarship (2018)". imdb.com. IMDb. Retrieved April 2, 2019.
  2. ^ "DOCUMENTARY ON OPEN ACCESS TO PREMIERE ON SEPT. 5, 2018 IN WASHINGTON, DC | Clarkson University".
  3. ^ "Open-access movement hits the silver screen".
  4. ^ Poynder, Richard (2018). "Open access — the movie". Nature. 562 (7725): 37–38. Bibcode:2018Natur.562...37P. doi:10.1038/d41586-018-06140-7. PMID 30258110.
  5. ^ "Paywall: The business of scholarship review – analysis of a scandal".
  6. ^ Fyfe, Aileen (2019). "Book Review". Endeavour. 43 (1–2): 37. doi:10.1016/j.endeavour.2019.03.001. hdl:10023/17576.
  7. ^ "Paywall the Movie – opening access to global research". 2017-10-20.
  8. ^ "Documentary "Paywall: The Business of Scholarship" Premieres in Washington, DC | ARL Policy Notes". 6 September 2018.