From: Ivy Anderson <[log in to unmask]> Date: Sun, 4 Nov 2012 19:30:05 +0000 In addition to the PRC report that Michael mentions, which provides a very useful overview of industry developments (and is not overly long), Richard Poynder wrote an excellent roundup of current issues in text mining earlier this year: "A New Declaration of Rights: Open Content Mining," Open and Shut? (blog), June 8, 2012 http://poynder.blogspot.co.uk/2012/06/new-declaration-of-rights-open-content.html And JISC has produced a very useful in-depth report for the UK context: The Value and Benefits of Text Mining, JISC, Report Doc #811, March 2012 http://www.jisc.ac.uk/publications/reports/2012/value-and-benefits-of-text-mining.aspx The following citations may also be of interest, in no particular order (several of these are cited in Poynder's piece): Sag, M., "Orphan Works as Grist for the Data Mill", SSRN, April 12, 2012. http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.2038889 Howard, J, "Elsevier Experiments With Allowing 'Text Mining' of Its Journals," Chronicle of Higher Education, May 6, 2012 http://chronicle.com/article/Hot-Type-Elsevier-Experiments/131789/ "The Right to Read Is the Right to Mine," Open Knowledge Foundation Blog, June 1, 2012. http://blog.okfn.org/2012/06/01/the-right-to-read-is-the-right-to-mine/ Van Noorden, R, "Trouble at the Text Mine," Nature News, March 8, 2012 http://www.nature.com/news/trouble-at-the-text-mine-1.10184 Jha, A, "Text mining: what do publishers have against this hi-tech research tool?," The Guardian, May 23, 2012 http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2012/may/23/text-mining-research-tool-forbidden Peter Murray-Rust's blog, e.g. http://blogs.ch.cam.ac.uk/pmr/2012/06/08/open-content-mining-richard-poynder-blogs-our-progress-so-far-and-i-summarise-my-current-impasse-with-publishers/ As mentioned earlier on Liblicense, the UC Santa Cruz Genocoding project's progress in working with individual publishers is documented at http://text.soe.ucsc.edu/progress.html The Association of Research Libraries (ARL) Code of Best Practices in Fair Use for Academic and Research Libraries, released in January 2012, addresses text mining in one of its sections (see Principle Seven): http://www.arl.org/pp/ppcopyright/codefairuse/code/index.shtml This topic was also treated in the recent Authors Guild v HathiTrust decision, which held that the use of digitized texts for text mining purposes was a fair use under US copyright law (a Google search will turn up plenty of relevant citations) The 2011 Hargreaves report on Digital Opportunity in the U.K. advocates introducing an exception into British copyright law (which lacks the fair use provisions of US law) to allow text and data mining: http://www.ipo.gov.uk/ipreview-finalreport.pdf Several open access publishers have posted their policies on text mining, e.g. http://www.biomedcentral.com/about/datamining http://www.springeropen.com/about/datamining/ http://blogs.plos.org/plos/2012/05/call-for-papers-plos-text-mining-collection/ Hope these are useful - Ivy Anderson California Digital Library University of California -----Original Message----- From: LibLicense-L Discussion Forum [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of LIBLICENSE Sent: Sunday, November 04, 2012 7:22 AM To: [log in to unmask] Subject: Re: Suggested Readings in Text Mining? From: Michael Mabe <[log in to unmask]> Date: Fri, 2 Nov 2012 12:15:38 +0100 Ann: The Publishing Research Consortium commissioned an overview of TDM issues from Eefke Smit (STM Director of Technology). Here's the link: http://www.publishingresearch.net/documents/PRCSmitJAMreport20June2011VersionofRecord.pdf A shorter simplified report is also in production. Watch for its appearance at the PRC website. Best, Michael Michael A Mabe Chief Executive Officer International Association of STM Publishers Prins Willem Alexanderhof 5 Prama House, 267 Banbury Road Hague, 2595BE, NL OXFORD, OX2 7HT, UK E-mail: [log in to unmask] Web: www.stm-assoc.org -----Original Message----- From: Ann Shumelda Okerson <[log in to unmask]> Date: Thu, 1 Nov 2012 13:57:20 -0400 An inquiry for this list: I'm looking for recommendations about good documents, articles, and presentations regarding Text Mining. If you have suggestions, please forward them to this list (with citation or URL), or to me directly: [log in to unmask] Many thanks, Ann