All Outputs (9)

Invitert føredrag: Wikipedia and Open Access (2019)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Lawson, S. (2015, April). Invitert føredrag: Wikipedia and Open Access. Presented at Wikipedia-akademiet 2015 (Norwegian Wikipedia Academy), Tromsø, Norway

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

Open scholarly communications data (2016)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Lawson, S. (2016, April). Open scholarly communications data. Presented at UKSG 39th Annual Conference and Exhibition, Bournemouth, UK

The transition to open access is being accompanied by opening up financial data about the scholarly communications system. The costs of both journal subscriptions and open access article processing charges (APCs) – along with the revenues of the publ... Read More about Open scholarly communications data.

Opening the black box of scholarly publishing (2015)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Lawson, S. (2015, November). Opening the black box of scholarly publishing. Presented at OpenCon 2015, Brussels, Belgium

Financial transparency and the political influence of commercial publishing (2015)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Lawson, S. (2015, June). Financial transparency and the political influence of commercial publishing. Paper presented at Radical Open Access Conference, Coventry, UK

This talk was given at the Radical Open Access Conference at Coventry University on 15 June 2015.