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Paywall: The Business of Scholarship (Full Movie) CC BY 4.0 from Paywall The Movie on Vimeo.

Link to Trailer (1 min. 10 secs.)

Link to the film:  Paywall: The Business of Scholarship          (https://paywallthemovie.com/)

The one hour free online documentary film titled Paywall: The Business of Scholarship (2018) is a powerful film that “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.” (Description taken from the film web page.)

Discussion Questions:

• What questions do you have?
• How does this apply to Nursing and Health Studies disciplines?
• Do you see a place for this content in the HS, BSN, or MN curricula?
• What are the advantages of the Open Access movement?
• What are the disadvantages of the Open Access movement?

External Resources:

• WIRED article for students - January 4, 2019, “The Quest to Topple Science-Stymying Academic Paywalls?”
• Atlantic Monthly article for students - March 4, 2019, “The Real Cost of Knowledge: The University of California has broken with one of the world’s largest academic publishers. Is this the end of a very profitable business model.
• CBS News article for students - January 26, 2018, “What's behind the soaring cost of college textbooks."
• An Interview with Jeff MacKie-Mason by The Scholarly Kitchen.
• "An Elsevier Pivot to Open Access."  from Inside Higher Ed, April 24, 2019
• "Elsevier and Norwegian consortium sign a €9 million open access deal."
• "Elsevier in €9m Norwegian Deal to End Paywalls for Academic Papers" from the Financial Times newspaper, April 22, 2019
• Big Deal Cancellation Tracking” page from SPARC (Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition)

   

Campus Library (CL) & UW Libraries (UWL) Open Access Resources

1. (CL) “Open Access Publishing: A New Model Based on Centuries of Tradition”
   • This page includes:

The UW Libraries' Scholarly Publishing and Open Access website provides access to the following OA Policy documents and resources related to the proposed UW Open Access Policy:

• The UW Faculty Open Access Policy (Approved by the Faculty Senate, May 17, 2018)
• FAQs for faculty
  • About the Policy
  • Copyright and Publisher Issues
  • ResearchWorks and Deposit of Articles (PubMed Central)
• UW Libraries Investments in Open Access:  Support for UW authors who publish openly
• Past UW Resolutions on Open Access

The Library's Scholarly Communication and Open Access Team is available to work with faculty interested in open access publishing. Team members are:

• Alyssa Berger, Math & Science Librarian, berg31@uw.edu
• Laura Dimmit, Arts & Humanities Librarian, lkd8@uw.edu
• Tami Garrard, Access Services Manager, tgarrard@uw.edu
• Denise Hattwig (chair), Head of Digital Scholarship + Collections, dhattwig@uw.edu
• Penelope Wood, Gender, Women, & Sexuality Studies and Engineering Librarian, woodpd@uw.edu

Please contact us with questions or suggestions.

Visit our Scholarly Publishing and Open Access | UW Bothell blog here: http://blogs.uw.edu/uwbsc/ 

2.  (UWL) UW Libraries Scholarly Publishing & Open Access Guide
3. (UWL) The UW Libraries response and actions - blog post “For the public good: Our values in a changing scholarly communication landscape.”
4. (CL) Open Educational Resources Guide
   • Educational materials that are in the public domain or introduced with an open license. The nature of these open materials means that anyone can legally and freely copy, use, adapt and re-share them.
5. (CL) Collections at the UWB/CC Campus Library - see the UW Libraries Collections list at bottom of the page for several of these links listed together. 

Digital Scholarship Resources from the Campus Library-

• (CL) UW Bothell/Cascadia Library Digital Scholarship + Collections
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