[Open-access] Fwd: Text & Data Mining Request ACS

Wed Apr 25 15:06:30 UTC 2012

American Chemical Society response following PMR blog
http://blogs.ch.cam.ac.uk/pmr/2012/03/10/hargreaves-and-information-mining-i-ask-the-american-chemical-society-for-freedom-to-mine-factual-data/

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From: John Ochs <J_Ochs at acs.org>
Date: Wed, Mar 14, 2012 at 7:54 PM
Subject: Text & Data Mining Request
To: "pm286 at cam.ac.uk" <pm286 at cam.ac.uk>
Cc: Madeleine Jacobs <M_Jacobs at acs.org>, "ben.hawes at ipo.gov.uk" <
ben.hawes at ipo.gov.uk>

 Prof. Murray-Rust – I am responding to your email of March 10 to Madeleine
Jacobs. First, let me congratulate you and Dr. Rzepa on winning the Herman
Skolnik Award. You are joining a group of distinguished awardees and we
hope that you are able to enjoy the recognition you will receive in San
Diego.****

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Regarding your request, the American Chemical Society does not grant to
you, as an individual investigator, permission to perform large-scale text
and data mining across the entire corpus of our publications. We would,
however, welcome the opportunity to clarify with the Cambridge University
library representatives who are responsible for providing you with licensed
access to ACS Publications what additional terms and conditions they would
be interested in pursuing in order to enable you to pursue your
university-based research and create works of your own from our
publications.  ****

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As you no doubt appreciate, we will want to clarify with your
administrators at Cambridge University questions around access, data
processing and the intended distribution of the outputs of the data and
text mining that you propose. Your library colleagues at Cambridge have
relationships and existing agreements not only with ACS, but with a wide
array of publishers. We would be pleased to engage directly with your
library colleagues, and encourage you to refer this letter onward, and to
communicate our request that they serve as a point of contact to facilitate
a discussion about your requirements.****

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We also have taken the liberty of copying Ben Hawes of the Intellectual
Property Office so that he is aware of our willingness to assist in
enabling access to ACS copyrighted materials for the purpose of furthering
scholarly research.****

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Best regards,****

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Jack Ochs****

Vice President, Strategic Planning & Analysis****

Publications Division****

American Chemical Society ****

1155 Sixteenth St., NW | Washington | DC 20036 ****

Email:  j_ochs at acs.org ****

*www.acs.org* <http://www.acs.org/>
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**American Chemical Society*****

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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

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