Mx Stuart Lawson's Outputs (35)

Jisc OA Annual Report 2021-22 for Edinburgh Napier University (2022)
Data
Ramage, L., & Lawson, S. (2022). Jisc OA Annual Report 2021-22 for Edinburgh Napier University. [Dataset]. https://doi.org/10.17869/enu.2022.2896250

This dataset contains details of article processing charges (APCs) paid by Edinburgh Napier University to make publications open access during the academic year 2021-22. It has been completed using the Jisc APC template.

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)
Data
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)
Data
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.

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.

Report on offset agreements: evaluating current Jisc Collections deals. Year 3 – evaluating 2017 deals (2018)
Report
Lawson, S. (2018). Report on offset agreements: evaluating current Jisc Collections deals. Year 3 – evaluating 2017 deals. Jisc

This report is the final of three annual evaluations 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.

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

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 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

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.

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

Report on offset agreements: evaluating current Jisc Collections deals. Year 1 – evaluating 2015 deals (2016)
Report
Lawson, S. (2016). Report on offset agreements: evaluating current Jisc Collections deals. Year 1 – evaluating 2015 deals. Jisc

This report is the first of three annual evaluations of Jisc Collections offset agreements.

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)
Newspaper / Magazine
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 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.

APC data for 27 UK higher education institutions in 2015 (v4) (2016)
Data
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).