[open-science] text-mining restrictions - a plea for more information

Heather Piwowar hpiwowar at gmail.com
Thu Apr 28 21:02:59 UTC 2011


Jenny, this is very useful already!  Thank you!

Heather

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On Thu, Apr 28, 2011 at 1:58 PM, Jenny Molloy <jcmcoppice12 at gmail.com>wrote:

> Hi All
>
> Sorry, this is a little after the conversation has occured but I'm helping
> Peter draft the text mining paper so I spent some time over the Easter
> weekend looking up a few license agreements where they were available, in
> order to turn our 'anecdotal evidence' into real exampes. There are quite a
> lot of license agreements on the web (obviously without the contractual
> details such as subscription fee, but that's not important for us). Some are
> posted on the publishers site, others by institutions (well done, the Max
> Plank Digital Library http://www.mpdl.mpg.de/services/ezb-readme_en.htm)
>
> Anyhow, here is my very non-systematic collection of 10 license agreements
> from some some of the larger academic publishers, including the CDL/Elsevier
> one already mentioned (there are actually 11 entries, but 2 are the same
> agreement).
>
> https://spreadsheets.google.com/ccc?key=0AtV3tIqIu0UZdGVMNTAtejhBUlFySGk4QWdrVHJNdkE&hl=en&authkey=CKC-_LQP
>
> 3 don't mention data/text mining (which isn't to say there isn't an
> additional clause in other versions of the agreement)
> 6 explicity forbid it via various means
> 1 probably forbids it but isn't quite so explicit.
>
> There are lots more out there, but this is a start at least.
>
> Jenny
>
>
>
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