Working Groups/Science/Oxford/23Apr2012

The text mining revolution by Peter Murray-Rust
Peter discussed the ongoing push to open up the scientific literature for text mining, which is currently largely prohibited by publisher contracts with university libraries. A revolution is afoot in the UK following the recommendation of the [ http://www.ipo.gov.uk/ipreview.htm Hargreaves Report] into Intellectual Property Law that text mining be an exemption for copyright law. The government is currently considering whether to implement this change and whether to block attempts to override these rights via contract law. You can see the responsesubmitted by Jenny Molloy and Diane Cabell on behalf of the OKFN Open Science Working Group and iCommons as well as Peter's personal submission. A strategy for moving the text mining agenda forward is required and Peter outlines what shape that might take on his [ http://blogs.ch.cam.ac.uk/pmr/2012/04/25/text-mining-the-scholarly-literature-towards-a-set-of-universal-principles-update-and-strategy/ blog]. You are very welcome to join the discussion there or via the open-science mailing list.