All Outputs (35)

Jisc OA Annual Report 2021-22 for Edinburgh Napier University (2022)
Data
Ramage, L., & Lawson, S. (2022). Jisc OA Annual Report 2021-22 for Edinburgh Napier University. [Dataset]. https://doi.org/10.17869/enu.2022.2896250

This dataset contains details of article processing charges (APCs) paid by Edinburgh Napier University to make publications open access during the academic year 2021-22. It has been completed using the Jisc APC template.

I just feel like this makes sense to me: Stuart’s Story (2021)
Book Chapter
Ford, E., & Lawson, S. (2021). I just feel like this makes sense to me: Stuart’s Story. In Stories of Open: Opening Peer Review through Narrative Inquiry (183-212). Chicago: ACRL Press

This chapter presents an interpretive narrative. It is the culminating document from our conversation that underwent the storying stories process.

The Political Histories of UK Public Libraries and Access to Knowledge (2020)
Book Chapter
Lawson, S. (2020). The Political Histories of UK Public Libraries and Access to Knowledge. In M. P. Eve, & J. Gray (Eds.), Reassembling Scholarly Communications: Histories, Infrastructures, and Global Politics of Open Access (161-172). MIT Press. https://doi.org/10.7551/mitpress/11885.001.0001

To complement contemporary discussions on open access, this chapter considers public libraries as one element of the longer history of access to scholarly knowledge. A historical perspective reveals that access to knowledge has undergone a long, slow... Read More about The Political Histories of UK Public Libraries and Access to Knowledge.

Journal subscription expenditure in the UK 2010-2019 (2020)
Data
Lawson, S. (2020). Journal subscription expenditure in the UK 2010-2019. [Dataset]. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3657775

This dataset contains payments made by UK higher education institutions for access to academic journals from ten publishers from 2010-2019. The data was obtained by sending Freedom of Information (FOI) requests to institutions through the website Wha... Read More about Journal subscription expenditure in the UK 2010-2019.

Journal subscription expenditure in the UK 2017-2019 (2020)
Data
Lawson, S. (2020). Journal subscription expenditure in the UK 2017-2019. [Dataset]. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3659970

This dataset contains payments made by UK higher education institutions for access to academic journals from ten publishers from 2017-2019. The data was obtained by sending Freedom of Information requests to institutions through the website https://w... Read More about Journal subscription expenditure in the UK 2017-2019.

Invitert føredrag: Wikipedia and Open Access (2019)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Lawson, S. (2019). Invitert føredrag: Wikipedia and Open Access. In Wikipedia-akademiet 2015. https://doi.org/10.7557/5.4980

The Wikipedia community has been involved in open access for a long time so it is fitting that the Wikimedia Foundation has now implemented an open access policy. This talk will discuss the links between open access and Wikipedia, and discuss the his... Read More about Invitert føredrag: Wikipedia and Open Access.

Evaluating UK offset agreements (2015–17) (2019)
Report
Lawson, S. (2019). Evaluating UK offset agreements (2015–17). Jisc

This report is the final summary of a three-year evaluation of Jisc Collections offset agreements. The work has been sponsored by Jisc as part of the Jisc Collections Studentship Award at Birkbeck, University of London.

Helping learned societies explore Plan S-compliant business models - A proposal (2019)
Other
Fyfe, A., Lawson, S., Moore, S., Neylon, C., & Eve, M. P. (2019). Helping learned societies explore Plan S-compliant business models - A proposal. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.2551448

This proposal was submitted to the funding call 'Helping learned societies explore Plan S-compliant business models', from the Wellcome Trust in partnership with UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) and the Association of Learned & Professional Society... Read More about Helping learned societies explore Plan S-compliant business models - A proposal.

Report on offset agreements: evaluating current Jisc Collections deals. Year 3 – evaluating 2017 deals (2018)
Report
Lawson, S. (2018). Report on offset agreements: evaluating current Jisc Collections deals. Year 3 – evaluating 2017 deals. Jisc

This report is the final of three annual evaluations of Jisc Collections offset agreements. The work has been sponsored by Jisc as part of the Jisc Collections Studentship Award at Birkbeck, University of London.

RCUK open access block grant allocation 2013-18 (v2) (2018)
Data
Lawson, S. (2018). RCUK open access block grant allocation 2013-18 (v2). [Dataset]. https://doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.4047315.v2

Compilation of RCUK open access block grant allocations for five years, 2013/14 to 2017/18.* These funds were distributed to UK research institutions in order to pay article processing charges (APCs) to make RCUK-funded research outputs open access.... Read More about RCUK open access block grant allocation 2013-18 (v2).

An ethics of care: what kind of Open Access do we want? (2018)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Lawson, S. (2018, March). An ethics of care: what kind of Open Access do we want?. Paper presented at RLUK Conference 2018, London, UK

A talk about open access in the context of a neoliberalised academy and about ways of thinking about open access that bring the focus back to values and ethics.

Scholarly Publishing, Freedom of Information and Academic Self-Determination: The UNAM-Elsevier Case (2017)
Other
Priego, E., McKiernan, E., Posada, A., Hartley, R., Rodriguez Ortega, N., Fiormonte, D., …Pérez, N. (2017). Scholarly Publishing, Freedom of Information and Academic Self-Determination: The UNAM-Elsevier Case

On February 1, 2015, the global information and analytics corporation Elsevier and the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) established the agreement UNAM-Elsevier contract DGAJ-DPI-39-081114-241, which saw the transfer from UNAM to Elsevi... Read More about Scholarly Publishing, Freedom of Information and Academic Self-Determination: The UNAM-Elsevier Case.

The History, Politics, and Perils of Open Access Publishing (2017)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Lawson, S. (2017, September). The History, Politics, and Perils of Open Access Publishing. Presented at The Dark Side of Technology Enhanced Learning in Medical Education, Newcastle, UK

Report on offset agreements: evaluating current Jisc Collections deals. Year 2 – evaluating 2016 deals (2017)
Report
Lawson, S. (2017). Report on offset agreements: evaluating current Jisc Collections deals. Year 2 – evaluating 2016 deals. Jisc

This report is the second of three annual evaluations of Jisc Collections offset agreements.

Against capital (2017)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Lawson, S. (2017, June). Against capital. Paper presented at ReCOn, Edinburgh, UK

The ways in which scholars exchange and share their work have evolved through pragmatic responses to the political and economic contexts in which they are embedded. So rather than being designed to fulfil their function in an optimal way, our methods... Read More about Against capital.

Journal subscription expenditure in the UK 2015-16 (v6) (2017)
Data
Lawson, S. (2017). Journal subscription expenditure in the UK 2015-16 (v6). [Dataset]. https://doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.4542433.v6

This dataset contains payments made by UK higher education institutions for access to academic journals from eight publishers in 2015 and 2016. The data was obtained by sending Freedom of Information requests to 153 institutions through the website w... Read More about Journal subscription expenditure in the UK 2015-16 (v6).

Access, ethics and piracy (2017)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Lawson, S. (2017, April). Access, ethics and piracy. Paper presented at UKSG 40th Annual Conference and Exhibition, Harrogate, UK

Ownership of intellectual property rights for a large proportion of the scholarly record is held by publishers, so a majority of journal articles are behind paywalls and unavailable to most people. As a result some readers are encouraged to use pirat... Read More about Access, ethics and piracy.

Access, ethics and piracy (2017)
Journal Article
Lawson, S. (2017). Access, ethics and piracy. Insights, 30(1), 25-30. https://doi.org/10.1629/uksg.333

Ownership of intellectual property rights for a large proportion of the scholarly record is held by publishers, so a majority of journal articles are behind paywalls and unavailable to most people. As a result some readers are encouraged to use pirat... Read More about Access, ethics and piracy.

Revealing the true costs of publishing: Towards a public data infrastructure of scholarly publishing costs (2016)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Lawson, S. (2016, November). Revealing the true costs of publishing: Towards a public data infrastructure of scholarly publishing costs. Paper presented at Knowledge Exchange Symposium, Copenhagen, Denmark

Report on offset agreements: evaluating current Jisc Collections deals. Year 1 – evaluating 2015 deals (2016)
Report
Lawson, S. (2016). Report on offset agreements: evaluating current Jisc Collections deals. Year 1 – evaluating 2015 deals. Jisc

This report is the first of three annual evaluations of Jisc Collections offset agreements.