From: "Hersh, Gemma (ELS-CAM)" <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Mon, 14 Jul 2014 15:10:59 +0000

Dear Colleagues -

Members of liblicense may also be interested in our response to LIBER
(and other organisations’) open letter re: text and data mining.  In
this letter we set  out how our policy has evolved since 2006, in
response to researcher feedback, and how it is designed to provide
researchers with practical, workable TDM services now, no matter the
legal framework of the country in which they are based.  In particular
the letter explains:

• That our click through agreement is not intended to place additional
liability on the researcher

• How API registration process works and how it has evolved in
response to researcher feedback

• That we facilitate the mining of images and other third party
content but are ourselves bound by legal obligations to respect
third-party copyright and often do not hold reuse rights to the images
we license

• That we have altered our licensing of outputs, in response to
researcher feedback

• That we support transparency and reproducibility of results

A copy of the letter can be viewed in full here:
http://www.elsevier.com/__data/assets/pdf_file/0004/208948/TDM_openletter.pdf/_nocache

Please don’t hesitate to let me know if you have any questions or concerns.

Gemma Hersh
Director of Policy
Elsevier

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From: Susan Reilly <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Wed, Jul 9, 2014 at 5:46 PM

As announced at the LIBER Conference in Riga, LIBER, the Association
of European Research Libraries, along with 17 other International
library and research organisations, have issued an open letter to
Elsevier.

The letter requests that Elsevier withdraw its TDM policy because it
places unfair restrictions on how researchers can mine content to
which they have legal access to and how they disseminate the results
of their research.

The letter is available here:

http://libereurope.eu/news/european-research-organisations-call-on-elsevier-to-withdraw-tdm-policy/

It is open to further signatories, so please disseminate amongst your
networks! Individuals or organisations wishing to sign the letter
should forward their details and logo on to me: [log in to unmask]

Kind regards,

Susan Reilly
Advocacy & Projects Manager
LIBER