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Documentary puts lens on the open-access movement upending scientific publishing


Jason Schmitt was working at Atlantic Records when the online site Napster disrupted the music industry by making copyrighted songs freely available. Now, the communications and media researcher at Clarkson University in Potsdam, New York, is pushing for a similar disruption of academic publishing with Paywall, a documentary about the open-access movement that debuts today in a Washington, D.C., theater. The full article was published by Science Magazine.

IMAGE: CC-BY — Provided by Jason Schmitt


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