Coming this Fall, Paywall: The Movie
Paywall: The Movie looks like a compelling presentation of the issues that preoccupy me, personally, for many of my waking hours every day. We’ll be screening the film in October (currently 10/25, tentatively)—watch this space for more info as the date approaches.
Here’s a trailer:
And here’s Stuart Sheiber at Harvard explaining perhaps the most maddening thing that every scholar needs to understand about academic publishing—the moral hazard at the center of it all: