From: Ann Okerson <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Thu, 10 May 2012 14:45:48 -0400

Further to this thread, my thanks to Alan Singleton (Editor, Learned
Publishing), who pointed to helpful resources on the Web page of the
Publishing Research Consortium (PRC) in the UK.

Have a look:  http://www.publishingresearch.net/

The first link of the home page as of now is to a Nature editorial
(March 2012), which defines text mining and calls for more activilty
in this area.

Another link goes to an excellent study by JISC (March 2012),
summarized thus, "JISC has published a report into the benefits and
barriers of text mining. It was unable to do the kinds of case studies
it wanted because of the lack of material, whic it in turn attributes
partly to the barriers involved. It believes that text mining offers
considerable benefits and recommends that, in the UK, the copyright
exception for text mining as recommended in a recent report (known as
the Hargreaves report in the UK) should be implemented."

Finally, see the link to "Journal Article Mining: a research study
into Practices, Policies, Plans .....and Promises" (June 2011), which
was widely circulated last summer.  "This is a study commissioned by
PRC which offers the first comprehensive look at what publishers and
others are doing, and plan to do, in both data and text mining of the
scholarly, mainly journal, literature. Lots of fascinating detail from
a number of viewpoints - from 29 interviews and 190 detailed responses
to a survey."

Ann Okerson/CRL