Book chapters
Lawson, S. (2020) Public libraries and knowledge politics. In: Eve, M.P. and Gray, J. (eds). Reassembling Scholarly Communications: Histories, Infrastructures, and Global Politics of Open Access (MIT Press). DOI: https://doi.org/10.7551/mitpress/11885.003.0017 [preprint available at E-LIS]
Peer reviewed articles
Lawson, S. (2017) Access, ethics, and piracy. Insights, 30(1): 25-30. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1629/uksg.333 [Available at E-LIS, Birkbeck repository, St Andrews repository, Edinburgh Napier repository, Humanities Commons] (video of talk based on this article)
Lawson, S., Gray, J., and 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). DOI: https://doi.org/10.16995/olh.72 [Available at E-LIS, Birkbeck repository, St Andrews repository, Edinburgh Napier repository, Humanities Commons] (video abstract/presentation) (correction)
Lawson, S. (2015) Article processing charges paid by 25 UK universities in 2014. Journal of Open Humanities Data, 1. DOI: https://doi.org/10.5334/johd.2 [Available at E-LIS, Birkbeck repository, St Andrews repository, Edinburgh Napier repository, Humanities Commons]
Lawson, S. (2015) Fee waivers for open access journals. Publications, 3(3). DOI: https://doi.org/10.3390/publications3030155 [Available at E-LIS, Birkbeck repository, St Andrews repository, Edinburgh Napier repository, Humanities Commons]
Lawson, S., Sanders, K. and Smith, L. (2015) Commodification of the information profession: A critique of higher education under neoliberalism. Journal of Librarianship and Scholarly Communication, 3(1). DOI: https://doi.org/10.7710/2162-3309.1182 [Available at E-LIS, Birkbeck repository, St Andrews repository, Edinburgh Napier repository, Humanities Commons]
Lawson, S. (2015) ‘Total cost of ownership’ of scholarly communication: managing subscription and APC payments together. Learned Publishing, 28(1). DOI: https://doi.org/10.1087/20150103 [Available at E-LIS, Birkbeck repository, St Andrews repository, Edinburgh Napier repository, Humanities Commons]
Lawson, S. and Meghreblian, B. (2014) Journal subscription expenditure of UK higher education institutions. F1000Research. DOI: https://doi.org/10.12688/f1000research.5706.3 [Available at E-LIS, Birkbeck repository, St Andrews repository, Edinburgh Napier repository, Humanities Commons]
PhD thesis and MA dissertation
Lawson, S. (2019) Open Access Policy in the UK: From Neoliberalism to the Commons. PhD. Birkbeck, University of London. DOI: https://doi.org/10.17613/ktz2-w249 [Available at Birkbeck Repository, British Library, or in print in Birkbeck library,]
Lawson, S. (2015) The politics of open access. PhD proposal. Birkbeck, University of London. DOI: https://doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.1494587
Lawson, S. (2013) Library publishing services: An investigation into open access publishing in academic libraries. MA. University of Brighton. DOI: https://doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.805214 [Available at E-LIS]
Datasets
Lawson, S. (2020) Journal subscription expenditure in the UK 2010-2019. Zenodo. DOI: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3657775
Lawson, S. (2020) Journal subscription expenditure in the UK 2017-2019. Zenodo. DOI: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3659970
Lawson, S. (2017) Journal subscription expenditure in the UK 2015-16. figshare. DOI: https://doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.4542433.v1
Lawson, S. (2016) RCUK open access block grant allocation 2013-18. figshare. DOI: https://doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.4047315
Shamash, K. and Lawson, S. (2016) APC data for 34 UK higher education institutions in 2015. figshare. DOI: https://doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.3167755.v1
Payne, D., Arkle, S., Gallagher, J., Lawson, S., Richardson, J., Smith, L., and Stephan, K. (2016) Content filtering in UK public libraries. figshare. DOI: https://doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.2059998.v1
Lawson, S. (2015) APC data for 25 UK higher education institutions – 2014. figshare. DOI: https://doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.1305596
Lawson, S., Meghreblian, B., and Brook, M. (2015) Journal subscription costs – FOIs to UK universities. figshare. DOI: https://doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.1186832
Reports and working papers
Lawson, S. (2019) Evaluating UK offset agreements (2015–17). DOI: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3256642 [Available at Edinburgh Napier Repository]
Lawson, S. (2018) Report on offset agreements: evaluating current Jisc Collections deals. Year 3 – evaluating 2017 deals. DOI: http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.1473588 [Available at E-LIS, Birkbeck repository, St Andrews repository, Edinburgh Napier repository, Humanities Commons]
Lawson, S. (2017) Report on offset agreements: evaluating current Jisc Collections deals. Year 2 – evaluating 2016 deals. DOI: https://doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.5383861.v1 [Available at E-LIS, Birkbeck repository, St Andrews repository, Edinburgh Napier repository, Humanities Commons]
Fyfe, A., Coate, K., Curry, S., Lawson, S., Moxham, N., and Røstvik, C.M. (2017) Untangling Academic Publishing: A history of the relationship between commercial interests, academic prestige and the circulation of research. DOI: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.546100 [Available at E-LIS, Birkbeck repository, St Andrews repository, Edinburgh Napier repository, Humanities Commons]
Lawson, S. (2016) Report on offset agreements: evaluating current Jisc Collections deals. Year 1 – evaluating 2015 deals. DOI: https://doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.4047777.v1 [Available at E-LIS, Birkbeck repository, St Andrews repository, Edinburgh Napier repository, Humanities Commons]
Lämmerhirt, D., Gray, J., Lawson, S., and Moore, S. (2016) PASTEUR4OA: Revealing the true costs of Gold OA – Towards a public data infrastructure of scholarly publishing cost. Available at: http://www.pasteur4oa.eu/sites/pasteur4oa/files/resource/RevealingthetruecostsofGoldOA_FINAL.pdf [Available at St Andrews repository, Edinburgh Napier repository]
Lawson, S. (2014) APC pricing. figshare. DOI: https://doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.1056280
Tuersley, S. and Lawson, S. (2013) Digitisation Benchmarking Project report. DOI: https://doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.871580
Other articles and blog posts
Fyfe, Aileen, Lawson, Stuart, Moore, Sam, Neylon, Cameron, & Eve, Martin Paul (2019) Helping learned societies explore Plan S-compliant business models – A proposal. Zenodo. http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.2551449 [Available at Birkbeck repository]
Priego, E., McKiernan, E., Posada, A., Hartley, R., Rodríguez-ortega, N., Fiormonte, D., Gil, A., Logan, C., Alperin, J.P., Mounce, R., Eglen, S., Trigueros, E.M., Lawson, S., Gatto, L., Ramos, A., Pérez, N. (2017) Scholarly Publishing, Freedom of Information and Academic Self-Determination: The UNAM-Elsevier Case. figshare. DOI: https://doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.5632657.v1 [Available at E-LIS, Humanities Commons]
Lawson, S. (2016) Universities should open the black box of journal subscriptions. Research Fortnight, 27 April 2016. [text available here]
Lawson, S. and Gray, J. (2016) It’s time to stand up to greedy academic publishers. The Guardian, 18 April 2016. [note: the title was chosen by the Guardian editors, not us!]
Lawson, S. (2015) Financial transparency and the political influence of commercial publishing. The Winnower, 2:e143435.54519. DOI: https://doi.org/10.15200/winn.143435.54519 (video of presentation)
Lawson, S. (2015) Open access and art books, Collective Investigations [blog post]. 8 July 2015.
Lawson, S. (2015) How offsetting schemes can reduce APC costs, Jisc Scholarly Communications blog. 19 June 2015.
Lawson, S. (2015) Collecting and sharing of APC data, Jisc Scholarly Communications blog. 21 May 2015.
Lawson, S. (2015) Editorial: Journal of Radical Librarianship. Journal of Radical Librarianship, 1. Available at: https://journal.radicallibrarianship.org/index.php/journal/article/view/1/5
Lawson, S. and Meghreblian, B. (2014) Freedom of Information requests uncover the lack of transparency in journal subscription costs, LSE Impact blog. 15 October 2014.
Lawson, S. (2014) The cost of subscription publishing, Informed. 30 September 2014.
Lawson, S. (2014) Opening data about open access, Jisc Scholarly Communications blog. 23 September 2014.
Lawson, S. (2014) Putting theory into practice. UKSG eNews, 323, 13 June 2014. DOI: https://doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.1053087
Lawson, S. (2013) Culture clash: Elsevier, academia.edu and copyright, Informed. 9 December 2013.
Lawson, S. (2013) The politics of open access, Informed. 21 October 2013.
Dutta, G., Lawson, S. et al. (2012) UKSG Annual Conference 2012: The diaries of the sponsored students. Insights, 25(2), pp.163-172. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1629/2048-7754.25.2.163
Lawson, S. (2011) Some lessons for e-books from the music world. CILIP Update, April 2011, p.33. DOI: https://doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.1022920 [pre-print]
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