All Outputs (11)

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

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.

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 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.

Rethinking peer, rethinking review: students collaboration in the review of teaching practices. (2015)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Scoles, J., & Sinclair, K. (2015, May). Rethinking peer, rethinking review: students collaboration in the review of teaching practices. Paper presented at SPARQS National Conference

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.

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.

‘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.