Access, ethics and piracy
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 unava...
Revealing the true costs of publishing: Towards a public data infrastructure of scholarly publishing costs
Presentation / Conference
Lawson, S. (2016, November)
Revealing the true costs of publishing: Towards a public data infrastructure of scholarly publishing costs. Paper presented at Knowledge Exchange Symposium, Copenhagen, Denmark
Report on offset agreements: evaluating current Jisc Collections deals. Year 1 – evaluating 2015 deals
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
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 ...
It's time to stand up to greedy academic publishers
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...
Open scholarly communications data
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 acc...
Opening the black box of scholarly communication funding: a public data infrastructure for financial flows in academic publishing
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), 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 ma...
APC data for 27 UK higher education institutions in 2015 (v4)
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 colle...
Opening the black box of scholarly publishing
Presentation / Conference
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
Journal Article
Lawson, S. (2015)
Article processing charges paid by 25 UK universities in 2014. Journal of Open Humanities Data, 1, 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...