Fee waivers for open access journals
Journal Article
Lawson, S. (2015)
Fee waivers for open access journals. Publications, 3(3), 155-167. https://doi.org/10.3390/publications3030155
Open access journals which charge article processing charges (APCs) sometimes offer fee waivers to authors who cannot afford to pay them. This article measures the extent of t...
Journal subscription costs - FOIs to UK universities (v23)
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 Universit...
Journal subscription expenditure of UK higher education institutions
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 trans...
Financial transparency and the political influence of commercial publishing
Presentation / Conference
Lawson, S. (2015, June)
Financial transparency and the political influence of commercial publishing. Paper presented at Radical Open Access Conference, Coventry, UK
This talk was given at the Radical Open Access Conference at Coventry University on 15 June 2015.
Commodification of the information profession: a critique of higher education under neoliberalism
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...
‘Total cost of ownership’ of scholarly communication: managing subscription and APC payments together
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...
Editorial: Journal of Radical Librarianship
Journal Article
Lawson, S. (2015)
Editorial: Journal of Radical Librarianship. Journal of Radical Librarianship, 1, 1-2
The Journal of Radical Librarianship began as an idea at a meeting of Radical Librarians Collective, a group of library and information workers who aim to challenge the influe...