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Fee waivers for open access journals (2015)
Journal Article
Lawson, S. (2015). Fee waivers for open access journals. Publications, 3(3), 155-167. https://doi.org/10.3390/publications3030155

Open access journals which charge article processing charges (APCs) sometimes offer fee waivers to authors who cannot afford to pay them. This article measures the extent of this practice among the largest toll access and open access publishers by ga... Read More about Fee waivers for open access journals.

Journal subscription expenditure of UK higher education institutions (2015)
Journal Article
Lawson, S., & Meghreblian, B. (2015). Journal subscription expenditure of UK higher education institutions. F1000Research, 3, https://doi.org/10.12688/f1000research.5706.3

The academic libraries of higher education institutions (HEIs) pay significant amounts of money each year for access to academic journals. The amounts paid are often not transparent especially when it comes to knowing how much is paid to specific pub... Read More about Journal subscription expenditure of UK higher education institutions.

Commodification of the information profession: a critique of higher education under neoliberalism (2015)
Journal Article
Lawson, S., Sanders, K., & Smith, L. (2015). Commodification of the information profession: a critique of higher education under neoliberalism. Journal of Librarianship and Scholarly Communication, 3(1), https://doi.org/10.7710/2162-3309.1182

The structures that govern society’s understanding of information have been reorganised under a neoliberal worldview to allow information to appear and function as a commodity. This has implications for the professional ethics of library and informat... Read More about Commodification of the information profession: a critique of higher education under neoliberalism.

‘Total cost of ownership’ of scholarly communication: managing subscription and APC payments together (2015)
Journal Article
Lawson, S. (2015). ‘Total cost of ownership’ of scholarly communication: managing subscription and APC payments together. Learned Publishing, 28(1), 9-13. https://doi.org/10.1087/20150103

Managing subscription journals and open access charges together has created challenges which may in part be dealt with by offsetting the two revenue streams against each other. In order to do this, it is necessary to have reliable financial data abou... Read More about ‘Total cost of ownership’ of scholarly communication: managing subscription and APC payments together.

Editorial: Journal of Radical Librarianship (2015)
Journal Article
Lawson, S. (2015). Editorial: Journal of Radical Librarianship. Journal of Radical Librarianship, 1, 1-2

The Journal of Radical Librarianship began as an idea at a meeting of Radical Librarians Collective, a group of library and information workers who aim to challenge the influence of neoliberal policy on the profession, as a way to bring theory and pr... Read More about Editorial: Journal of Radical Librarianship.

Panning for gold: Ensuring an evidence base for end of life decision-making (2014)
Journal Article
Colquhoun, M., & Templeton, J. (2014). Panning for gold: Ensuring an evidence base for end of life decision-making. Palliative Care Scotland,

A critical review of the routing protocols in opportunistic networks. (2014)
Journal Article
Panneerselvam, J., Atojoko, A., Smith, K., Liu, L., & Antonopoulos, N. (2014). A critical review of the routing protocols in opportunistic networks. EAI Endorsed Transactions on Industrial Networks and Intelligent Systems, 1(1), Article e6. https://doi.org/10.4108/inis.1.1.e6

The goal of Opportunistic Networks (OppNets) is to enable message transmission in an infrastructure less environment where a reliable end-to-end connection between the hosts in not possible at all times. The role of OppNets is very crucial in today’s... Read More about A critical review of the routing protocols in opportunistic networks..

The BioGRID interaction database: 2015 update (2014)
Journal Article
Chatr-aryamontri, A., Breitkreutz, B., Oughtred, R., Boucher, L., Heinicke, S., Chen, D., …Tyers, M. (2015). The BioGRID interaction database: 2015 update. Nucleic Acids Research, 43(D1), D470-D478. https://doi.org/10.1093/nar/gku1204

The Biological General Repository for Interaction Datasets (BioGRID: http://thebiogrid.org) is an open access database that houses genetic and protein interactions curated from the primary biomedical literature for all major model organism species an... Read More about The BioGRID interaction database: 2015 update.

A critical comparative evaluation on DHT-based peer-to-peer search algorithms (2014)
Journal Article
Betts, A., Liu, L., Li, Z., & Antonopoulos, N. (2014). A critical comparative evaluation on DHT-based peer-to-peer search algorithms. International Journal of Embedded Systems, 6(2/3), 250-256. https://doi.org/10.1504/ijes.2014.063823

Peer-to-peer networks are becoming increasingly popular as a method of creating highly scalable and robust distributed systems. To address performance issues when scaling traditional unstructured protocols to large network sizes many protocols have b... Read More about A critical comparative evaluation on DHT-based peer-to-peer search algorithms.

Cloud BI: Future of business intelligence in the Cloud (2014)
Journal Article
Al-Aqrabi, H., Liu, L., Hill, R., & Antonopoulos, N. (2015). Cloud BI: Future of business intelligence in the Cloud. Journal of Computer and System Sciences, 81(1), 85-96. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jcss.2014.06.013

In self-hosted environments it was feared that business intelligence (BI) will eventually face a resource crunch situation due to the never ending expansion of data warehouses and the online analytical processing (OLAP) demands on the underlying netw... Read More about Cloud BI: Future of business intelligence in the Cloud.