All Outputs (8)

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
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
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.

Untangling academic publishing: a history of the relationship between commercial interests, academic prestige and the circulation of research (2017)
Report
Fyfe, A., Coate, K., Curry, S., Lawson, S., Moxham, N., & Rostvik, C. M. (2017). Untangling academic publishing: a history of the relationship between commercial interests, academic prestige and the circulation of research

This briefing paper aims to provide a historical perspective that can inform the debates about what the future of academic publishing should look like. We argue that current policy regarding open access publishing, and many of the other proposals for... Read More about Untangling academic publishing: a history of the relationship between commercial interests, academic prestige and the circulation of research.

Journal subscription expenditure in the UK 2015-16 (v6) (2017)
Dataset
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
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.