[Open-access] Fwd: Text and information-mining from content in Wiley journals

[Naomi Lillie]

PMR initial e-mail to Wiley



---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Peter Murray-Rust <pm286 at cam.ac.uk>
Date: Wed, Mar 7, 2012 at 8:40 AM
Subject: Text and information-mining from content in Wiley journals
To: Robert Campbell <bcampbel at wiley.com>


Dear Bob Campbell,
We were at the meeting last week in Oxford on the "Evolution of
Scholarship" where you stated that anyone could mine content in Wiley
journals for factual information, and re-use and republish it. Cambridge
subscribes to many Wiley journals and I and many other scientists wish to
mine factual information using machines.

We cannot do this at present as Wiley imposes two barriers:

   -  legal restrictions of text-mining through contracts (Wiley has in the
   past threatened scientists with legal action for extracting facts)
   - Wiley's server-side robots which will shut off the University if we
   attempt to download publications automatically.

*I would therefore like you (immediately, as we wish to start immediately)
to confirm that Wiley will absolutely and for ever allow subscribers, at no
additional cost, to mine all content for facts in both back issues and
current publications as soon as they appear.*

Answeriing "YES" to this question is all that is required. Any other
answer, including the request for discussion will be taken as "NO". Please
reply by the end of today (2012-03-07).

I have published a background document (
http://blogs.ch.cam.ac.uk/pmr/2012/03/04/information-mining-and-hargreaves-i-set-out-the-absolute-rights-for-readers-non-negotiable/)
which also gives a wide range of illustrations of factual information.
In
places it reads "Elsevier", please substitute "Wiley".

Please note that we do not need any help from Wiley in systematically
downloading papers. We shall use a delay of 1 second between downloads and
we shall not re-publish verbatim the papers we download.

Thank you and I look forward to your immediately reply and agreement.
-- 
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



-- 
Naomi Lillie
Foundation Administrator and Community Coordinator (Open Bibliography)
Open Knowledge Foundation
http://okfn.org/
Skype: n.lillie
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