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Library-Open Access Week
October 24, 2018 @ 5:30 pm - 6:45 pm
Join the Spokane Academic Library in celebrating Open Access Week Oct. 22 – 26
Open access is the free, immediate, online availability of research articles along with the rights to use these articles within the digital environment. Open Access Week is an opportunity to learn more about the potential benefits of open access, including accelerated research and increased audiences.
Wednesday, Oct. 24
Open Access Week: Film Screening “Paywall: The Business of Scholarship”
5:30 p.m. – 6:45 p.m., PBS 101 Walgreens Auditorium
This 1-hour documentary 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.
RSVP is requested, but not required.
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