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Oct
24
2018

Movie Screening: Paywall: The Business of Scholarship

When: Wednesday, October 24, 2018
3:00 PM - 5:00 PM CT

Where: Robert H Lurie Medical Research Center, Hughes Auditorium, 303 E. Superior, Chicago, IL 60611 map it

Audience: Faculty/Staff - Student - Post Docs/Docs - Graduate Students

Contact: Linda O'Dwyer   (312) 503-8109

Group: Galter Health Sciences Library & Learning Center

Category: Other

Description:

The movie, Paywall: The Business of Scholarship, dives into the need for open access to research and science and questions the rationale behind the $25.2 billion a year that flows into for-profit academic publishers. 

In celebration of Open Access Week 2018, Galter Health Sciences Library & Learning Center invites you to view the movie and participate in a lively discussion that will follow the screening. Mark Huffman, MD, Quentin D. Young Professor of Health Policy, Associate Professor of Preventive Medicine (Epidemiology) and Medicine (Cardiology), associate editor for JAMA Cardiology and former coordinating editor of the Cochrane Heart Group U.S. Satellite, will lead the discussion.

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