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Article processing charges paid by 25 UK universities in 2014 (2015)
Journal Article
Lawson, S. (2015). Article processing charges paid by 25 UK universities in 2014. Journal of Open Humanities Data, 1, Article e.2. https://doi.org/10.5334/johd.2

This dataset contains details of 6,943 article processing charges (APCs) paid by 25 higher education institutions in the UK during 2014. The data was collected as part of Jisc Collections’ APC data collection project and has been released with permis... Read More about Article processing charges paid by 25 UK universities in 2014.

Journal subscription costs - FOIs to UK universities (v23) (2015)
Data
Lawson, S., Meghreblian, B., & Brook, M. (2015). Journal subscription costs - FOIs to UK universities (v23). [Data]. https://doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.1186832.v23

This dataset contains the amount of money paid by UK higher education institutions to ten major publishers (Elsevier, Wiley, Springer, Taylor & Francis, Sage, Oxford University Press, Cambridge University Press, Nature Publishing Group, Royal Society... Read More about Journal subscription costs - FOIs to UK universities (v23).

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.

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.

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.

Traffic monitoring using video analytics in clouds (2015)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Abdullah, T., Anjum, A., Tariq, M. F., Baltaci, Y., & Antonopoulos, N. (2014, December). Traffic monitoring using video analytics in clouds. Presented at 2014 IEEE/ACM 7th International Conference on Utility and Cloud Computing (UCC), London, United Kingdom

Traffic monitoring is a challenging task on crowded roads. Traditional traffic monitoring procedures are manual, expensive, time consuming and involve human operators. They are subjective due to the very involvement of human factor and sometimes prov... Read More about Traffic monitoring using video analytics in clouds.

‘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.

Becoming a Lean University: The Case of the University of St Andrews. (2014)
Book Chapter
Robinson, M., & Yorkstone, S. (2014). Becoming a Lean University: The Case of the University of St Andrews. In Leadership and Governance in Higher Education: Handbook for Decision-makers and Administrators. Raabe Verlag

This article looks at how “lean” can be successfully introduced into a higher education setting by discussing what has become known as ‘The St Andrews Model’. The article demonstrates that “lean” can be adapted to suit the particular circumstances of... Read More about Becoming a Lean University: The Case of the University of St Andrews..

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.-J., Oughtred, R., Boucher, L., Heinicke, S., Chen, D., Stark, C., Breitkreutz, A., Kolas, N., O'Donnell, L., Reguly, T., Nixon, J., Ramage, L., Winter, A., Sellam, A., Chang, C., Hirschman, J., Theesfeld, C., Rust, J., Livstone, M. S., …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.

High Tech; Lean Tech. (2014)
Journal Article
Yorkstone, S. (2014). High Tech; Lean Tech. Lean Management Journal,

Stephen Yorkstone compares the duplicitous appeal of technology and how drives towards new software and technologies can limit improvement to how visionary change has been enabled by good technology.

Virtual vignettes: the acquisition, analysis, and presentation of social network data (2014)
Journal Article
Howden, C., Liu, L., Li, Z., Li, J., & Antonopoulos, N. (2014). Virtual vignettes: the acquisition, analysis, and presentation of social network data. Science China Information Sciences, 57(3), 1-20. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11432-014-5069-9

Online social networks (OSNs) are immensely prevalent and have now become a ubiquitous and important part of the modern, developed society. However, online social networks pose significant problems to digital forensic investigators who have no experi... Read More about Virtual vignettes: the acquisition, analysis, and presentation of social network data.

Monocyte chemoattractant protein-induced protein 1 impairs adipogenesis in 3T3-L1 cells (2014)
Journal Article
Lipert, B., Wegrzyn, P., Sell, H., Eckel, J., Winiarski, M., Budzynski, A., Matlok, M., Kotlinowski, J., Ramage, L., Malecki, M., Wilk, W., Mitus, J., & Jura, J. (2014). Monocyte chemoattractant protein-induced protein 1 impairs adipogenesis in 3T3-L1 cells. BBA - Molecular Cell Research, 1843(4), 780-788. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bbamcr.2014.01.001

Monocyte chemoattractant protein-induced protein 1 (MCPIP1) encoded by the ZC3H12a gene (also known as Regnase-1) is involved in the regulation of degradation of mRNA of inflammatory modulators and for processing of pre-miRNA. These functions depend... Read More about Monocyte chemoattractant protein-induced protein 1 impairs adipogenesis in 3T3-L1 cells.