[open-science] feedback wanted on text-mining initiatives

Fri Apr 20 16:39:03 UTC 2012

Hi Heather,

for our fulltext mining project here (we are trying get most of
PubMed), we are asking for ~200 letters around entities of interest
that we've found in the text ("snippets") which is what Google Scholar
shows, too. Once they have a hit, people could always use Google
Scholar to get the flanking text anyways.

The biggest problem for me is contact information of publishers. There
are so many of them, some have been bought up, some have vanished,
often permissions@<publisher>.com doesn't reply, it's a slow struggle.

You know our website already, it's at http://text.soe.ucsc.edu. I keep
updating the list of publishers and contacts for text mining
permissions. Happy about any comments or for contact information of
publishers.

cheers
Max
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On Fri, Apr 20, 2012 at 8:15 AM, Heather Piwowar <hpiwowar at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi Open Science,
>
> There is growing interest in text-mining rights.  I'm in the middle of a bit
> of it, and would love some feedback and community.
>
> Briefly, due to a twitter conversation, Elsevier and I began to talk about
> updating the subscription contract of the University of British Columbia to
> explicitly include text-mining rights.  The rights Elsevier has agreed to
> are more broad than they've agreed to with other institutions, as far as I
> know (tell me if I'm wrong!), and more broad than those of most publishers.
>  More information.
>
> In the mean time, PMR and others are asserting text-mining rights and going
> ahead.  This is another approach and I'm glad they are doing it.
>
> I've drafted a short "text-mining manifesto" if you will...  how researchers
> expect to be able to access and process the accessing the literature to
> which we have access.   How to improve this statement, and what to do with
> it next?
>
> As indicated by a recent stock analysis report on Elsevier, the time for
> pressing ahead with this is NOW.   I happen to know there is media attention
> in the wings.
>
> Comments, suggestions, opinions, volunteers, etc.... let's dig in.
>
> Heather
>
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>
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