[Open-access] Fwd: Freedom to mine factual information from full-text of NPG articles

Wed Apr 25 14:08:42 UTC 2012

Response from Nature

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Hoole, David <D.Hoole at nature.com>
Date: Thu, Mar 15, 2012 at 3:50 PM
Subject: Re: Freedom to mine factual information from full-text of NPG
articles
To: Peter Murray-Rust <pm286 at cam.ac.uk>
Cc: "Campbell, Philip" <P.Campbell at nature.com>, pk219 at cam.ac.uk,
emc59 at cam.ac.uk, pbm2 at cam.ac.uk, "Hannay, Timo" <T.Hannay at nature.com>,
Jason Wilde <J.Wilde at nature.com>, Jessica Rutt <J.Rutt at nature.com>

Peter,

As you are aware, NPG's text mining policy was stated in a recent Nature
editorial.

We allow site licence customers to mine licensed text (for non commercial
purposes) subject to contract. The terms are simple, in line with your own
suggestions:

1. We require a guarantee that you will not violate our copyrights (but of
course we provide permission to reproduce snippets of text).

2. We require a guarantee you will use a low impact crawler (we also need
to know the IP address of your crawler, so we don't inadvertently block it).

3. We require a guarantee you will store the mined text securely, and only
for the purposes of the stated experiment.

If you can provide these guarantees, we are very happy to allow you (and
our other site licence customers) to crawl, mine and publish factual
information from our full text, without payment or further restrictions.

Best regards,

David Hoole

Sent from my iPad

On 10 Mar 2012, at 19:47, "Peter Murray-Rust" <pm286 at cam.ac.uk> wrote:

On Sat, Mar 10, 2012 at 6:19 PM, Campbell, Philip <P.Campbell at nature.com>wrote:

>  Peter - the person who should respond to you is David Hoole, my colleague
> who has NPG responsibility for text-mining access queries (as well as -
> where necessary - permissions and licensing). I am copying to him.
> Best wishes
> Philip
>

Many thanks Philip for the prompt response,

I will wait to hear from David.

P.

P.

>
>
>  *From*: Peter Murray-Rust [mailto:pm286 at cam.ac.uk]
> *Sent*: Saturday, March 10, 2012 09:53 AM
> *To*: Campbell, Philip
> *Cc*: Patricia Killiard <pk219 at cam.ac.uk>; Edmund Chamberlain <
> emc59 at cam.ac.uk>; Peter Morgan <pbm2 at cam.ac.uk>; Hannay, Timo
> *Subject*: Freedom to mine factual information from full-text of NPG
> articles
>
> Philip,
> We are making a submission in response to the Hargreaves report and
> specifically about the freedom to extract and publish factual information
> from scientific publications. I have appreciated your cooperation in the
> past over the requirement to publish data that supports scientific
> research. I have copied Timo who, as you know, has supported our research
> here in developing semantic informatics, including tools for extraction.
> This involved a summer student and in-kind support for our Sciborg (EPSRC)
> project. You'll know that two of our staff have since joined Timo's Digital
> Science; and we are very proud to produce valuable human resources.
>
> We are now in the position where we can extract factual chemical
> information from the full text of articles with high precision and recall
> (OPSIN accuracy is > 99.5% and recall > 95%) and with great speed and
> cost-effectiveness. The University of Cambridge is a subscriber to NPG
> journals and we would like to begin to extract information on a systematic
> basis for Open scientific research. We don’t need technical help or
> permission from NPG. We have copied Cambridge University Library staff.
>
> This mail is to ask your assurance that we can do this without (a)
> legal/contractual barriers from NPG and (b) that we shall not be cut off by
> NPG robots (unfortunately this happened some years ago). We wish to start
> immediately to show Hargreaves the benefit of information mining – they
> have a deadline for 2012-03-21 so we would like your agreement by
> 2012-03-15. All we require is:
>
> *YES: you may mine and publish factual information from the full text of
> NPG journals without additional payment and without restriction from legal
> and technical barriers.*
>
> I hope you can trust me to act responsibly on not violating copyright and
> being considerate to your robots. I have set out more details and a
> non-exhaustive illustration of facts in
> http://blogs.ch.cam.ac.uk/pmr/2012/03/04/information-mining-and-hargreaves-i-set-out-the-absolute-rights-for-readers-non-negotiable.
>
> Unfortunately any other reply than YES by 2012-03-15 will be regarded as
> unacceptable for the purposes of Hargreaves.
>
> You will note that we are also approaching other major publishers of
> chemistry. Elsevier has already publicly said we can mine their content for
> research and we’ll be publishing the facts under an Open licence.
>
> Best wishes,
>
> Peter
>
> --
> Peter Murray-Rust
> Reader in Molecular Informatics
> Unilever Centre, Dep. Of Chemistry
> University of Cambridge
> CB2 1EW, UK
> +44-1223-763069
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-- 
Peter Murray-Rust
Reader in Molecular Informatics
Unilever Centre, Dep. Of Chemistry
University of Cambridge
CB2 1EW, UK
+44-1223-763069

-- 
Peter Murray-Rust
Reader in Molecular Informatics
Unilever Centre, Dep. Of Chemistry
University of Cambridge
CB2 1EW, UK
+44-1223-763069

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