[Open-access] Fwd: [petermr's blog] Comment: "Permission for information-mining : Update and response from Royal Society of Chemistry" ELS

Wed Apr 25 14:51:07 UTC 2012

Response from Elsevier following PMR blog
http://blogs.ch.cam.ac.uk/pmr/2012/03/13/permission-for-information-mining-update-and-response-from-royal-society-of-chemistry/

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From: Alicia Wise <pm286 at cam.ac.uk>
Date: Tue, Mar 13, 2012 at 11:07 AM
Subject: [petermr's blog] Comment: "Permission for information-mining :
Update and response from Royal Society of Chemistry"
To: pm286 at cam.ac.uk

New comment on your post "Permission for information-mining : Update and
response from Royal Society of Chemistry"
Author : Alicia Wise
E-mail : a.wise at elsevier.com
URL    : http://www.elsevier.com/access

Comment:
Hi Peter,

Elsevier, like many other publishers, has technical measures in place on
our websites to limit crawling and these would prevent you from taking the
technical approach you have outlined. We have these measures in place
because web crawling, while ubiquitous, is generally not the most efficient
method of harvesting large quantities of content from sites such as ours
(you are experienced in this area, but other interested readers might refer
for example to Nelson et al., Efficient, Automatic Web Resource Harvesting,
http://public.lanl.gov/herbertv/papers/f140-nelson.pdf).  We are keen to
provide the right data to you in the right format in a way that doesn’t
impair the experience of our other users and that is scalable.
Recognising that you, and other users, need programmatic access to the
content, we have invested in recent years in services specifically designed
to support machine-to-machine access, including a comprehensive suite of
APIs and a content syndication service. We would be more than happy to work
with you to explain how these services work and how we believe they can
support your needs.  We have existing agreements that cover the use of
these services.  If these are not right for you, then we are happy to work
with you to develop an agreement tailored for your project.

With kind wishes,

Alicia
@wisealic

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