Value and benefits of text mining

"Current UK copyright restrictions, however, mean that most text mining in UKFHE is based on Open Access documents or bespoke arrangements. This means that the availability of material for text mining is limited....In exploring issues of market failure and equity in relation to text mining, it appeared that similar fundamental issues (in particular the matter of equity in terms of 'who pays and who gains') may be relevant to the overall debate surrounding Open Access to scholarly outputs....As several consultees highlighted, ...most text mining is limited to exploring Open Access documents where no additional charges are incurred....Even where text mining is allowed within publisher contracts, licensing terms that require the full attribution of derivative works developed in the text mining process can effectively prevent text mining usage. For example, the Open Access publisher BioMed has such a licence, allowing text mining and the production of derivative works, provided the relevant attribution is made. However, where text mining is used to identify new knowledge derived from cross-article analysis of patterns, it is effectively impossible to identify all relevant attributions that contributed to the new derived knowledge. This therefore means that such text mining cannot be undertaken...."