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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)
Dataset
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)
Dataset
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)
Conference Proceeding
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.

RCUK open access block grant allocation 2013-18 (v2) (2018)
Dataset
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
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.

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.

PASTEUR4OA: Revealing the true costs of Gold OA - towards a public data infrastructure of scholarly publishing costs (2016)
Report
Lämmerhirt, D., Gray, J., Lawson, S., & Moore, S. (2016). PASTEUR4OA: Revealing the true costs of Gold OA - towards a public data infrastructure of scholarly publishing costs

This briefing paper presents the current state of financial opacity in scholarly journal publishing. It describes what information is needed in order to obtain a bigger, more systemic picture of financial flows, and to understand how much money is go... Read More about PASTEUR4OA: Revealing the true costs of Gold OA - towards a public data infrastructure of scholarly publishing costs.

It's time to stand up to greedy academic publishers (2016)
Other
Gray, J., & Lawson, S. (2016). It's time to stand up to greedy academic publishers

[Note: the title of this news commentary article was not approved by the authors.] The UK’s higher education institutions spend more than £180m on journal subscriptions every year. We need to come together and create a better system

Opening the black box of scholarly communication funding: a public data infrastructure for financial flows in academic publishing (2016)
Journal Article
Lawson, S., Gray, J., & Mauri, M. (2016). Opening the black box of scholarly communication funding: a public data infrastructure for financial flows in academic publishing. Open Library of Humanities, 2(1), Article e10. https://doi.org/10.16995/olh.72

‘Public access to publicly funded research’ has been one of the rallying calls of the global open access movement. Governments and public institutions around the world have mandated that publications supported by public funding sources should be publ... Read More about Opening the black box of scholarly communication funding: a public data infrastructure for financial flows in academic publishing.

Open scholarly communications data (2016)
Presentation / Conference
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.

APC data for 27 UK higher education institutions in 2015 (v4) (2016)
Dataset
Lawson, S. (2016). APC data for 27 UK higher education institutions in 2015 (v4). [Dataset]. https://doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.1507481.v4

This spreadsheet contains details of 4,358 article processing charges (APCs) paid by 27 UK higher education institutions during the first half of 2015. The data is being collected as part of Jisc's APC data collection project to address the Total Cos... Read More about APC data for 27 UK higher education institutions in 2015 (v4).

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)
Dataset
Lawson, S., Meghreblian, B., & Brook, M. (2015). Journal subscription costs - FOIs to UK universities (v23). [Dataset]. 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.

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.

‘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.