From: Susan Barribeau <[log in to unmask]> Date: Tue, 8 May 2012 17:33:46 -0500 Hullo, We have done so here with varying degrees of success. Since collaboration beyond a single institution is sometimes a feature of these types of projects (including beyond the U.S.), that can complicate things particularly if all institutions do not already "own" the content. Note: a recent request involved content that we lease/subscribe-to; no luck with the publishers with that. Yet. EEBO files were one of the first requested for a project involving researchers from multiple institutions beyond University of Wisconsin - Madison and hosted/managed by the UW Libraries. That was roughly 3 years ago. As I recall we ended up signing "a local management agreement" with the EEBO Text Creation Partnership. The project resulted in the following: http://litlab.stanford.edu/LiteraryLabPamphlet1.pdf It was also published as an article "Quantitative Formalism: An Experiment" which appeared in N+1, Issue Number 13 "Machine Politics" and was authored by Sarah Allison, Ryan Heuser, Matthew Jockers, Franco Moretti, and Michael Witmore (then at UW-Madison). I am not aware that we are prepared with any sort of standardized license language for this type of thing. Since then we have had a number of other situations - similar yet all unique. Susan Barribeau English Literature/Journalism/Media/Linguistics Bibliographer University of Wisconsin - Madison, Memorial Library, Room 278D Phone: (608)262-9585 FAX: (608)265-2754 Email: [log in to unmask] LIBLICENSE wrote: > From: Ann Okerson <[log in to unmask]> > Date: Tue, 8 May 2012 16:30:38 -0400 > > Today in the Chronicle of Higher Education, Jennifer Howard tells the > story of an Elsevier Science + UBC researcher's (planned) text-mining > experiment. > > This brought to mind the efforts of various of us (librarians) over > the last few years to have data or text-mining language inserted into > standard library-publisher contracts, pretty much without success. > However, several publishers (including Elsevier) did tell me that, > while not able to insert such clauses, they'd be glad to work with > campus researchers on a trial basis, thus developing a better > understanding of just what such projects entail and in order to be > prepared for requests in the future. Not having researchers to bring > to the table, we got no further. One of my thoughts as I read today's > article is that a gap still exists between libraries, researchers, and > publishers -- we should have been able to work out such forays before > 2012! > > So, I'm wondering if any readers of this list have participated in > such experiments with publishers/researchers/libraries and your > experiences of same. And perhaps you could even URL links to accounts > of your projects? > > Thank you, Ann Okerson > > ******* > Elsevier Experiments With Allowing 'Text Mining' of Its Journals > > This premium article will be available to nonsubscribers for five days at: > > http://chronicle.com/article/Hot-Type-Elsevier-Experiments/131789/?key=TDl1JFRhMyxLNHk3NmsQZG1danFtNxgmZHEQPi0pblFRFQ%3D%3D.