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
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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
>
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