Report on offset agreements: evaluating current Jisc Collections deals. Year 3 – evaluating 2017 deals
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 Awa...
RCUK open access block grant allocation 2013-18 (v2)
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 p...
An ethics of care: what kind of Open Access do we want?
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
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 ...
The History, Politics, and Perils of Open Access Publishing
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
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
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 ...
Untangling academic publishing: a history of the relationship between commercial interests, academic prestige and the circulation of research
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 p...
Journal subscription expenditure in the UK 2015-16 (v6)
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 sendin...
Access, ethics and piracy
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 unava...