# Live-screening & panel discussion: "Paywall - The Business of Scholarship", ## Dec 14, 2018, 14:30 - 16:30, Lecture Hall M 018, Geschwister-Scholl-Platz 1, LMU Munich. We are happy to announce that a collaboration of the LMU Open Science Center, LMU University Library, and Leibniz Institute for Psychology Information (ZPID) will present the movie "Paywall - The Business of Scholarship" in Munich. As a special guest, we welcome the director and producer of the movie, Prof. Jason Schmitt (Clarkson University, USA). The movie is a documentary which focuses on the need for open access to research and science. It 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 publishers, and looks at the factors impeding global academic innovation. We will live-screen the movie, and have a subsequent panel discussion, featuring the following panelists: - Prof. Jason Schmitt (Director and producer of the movie; Clarkson University, USA) - Prof. Michael Bosnjak (Leibniz Institute for Psychology Information, ZPID, Trier) - Volker Schallehn (Head of Electronic Publishing, University Library, LMU) - Prof. Nikolaus Plesnila (LMU Open Science Center; University Hospital of Munich) See the trailer of the movie here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YaHlcwyn2Jk&feature=youtu.be The event will take place on Friday, Dec 14, 2018 from 14:30 to 16:30 in Lecture Hall M 018, Geschwister-Scholl-Platz 1, LMU Munich. ##Claim your (free!) ticket here: http://www.leibniz-psychology.org/paywall/ ##Feel free to forward this announcement to interested friends and colleagues! --- Dr. Felix Schönbrodt Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Germany Managing Director of the LMU Open Science Center | http://www.osc.lmu.de Psychological Methods and Assessment, Department Psychology | http://www.psy.lmu.de/pm_en/team/staff/schoenbrodt 
