The Political Histories of UK Public Libraries and Access to Knowledge
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). Massachusetts Institute of Technology Press (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 histori...
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.
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 ...
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...