Unilever Centre for Molecular Informatics, Cambridge - Elsevier, FooBar and Content-mining – yet another Digital Land Grab – wake up academia and fight. Or surrender for ever « petermr's blog

abernard102@gmail.com 2012-08-20

Summary:

“I have just discovered Elsevier’s content mining document. For those who don’t know I have been trying to get permission to text-mine Elsevier content for two years and have been treated as a second-class citizen and ultimately come away with nothing... The analysis in this post will centre round Elsevier but also applies to another major publisher (FooBar, who I will reveal in later posts if my informant agrees). And I suspect it applies to a large proportion the rest of the publishing community... Read [the Esevier Content Mining Policy] before you read my critique. Consider the implications. Then I’ll indicate why we have been so badly let down by academic libraries or their purchasing agents who have given away more of our crown jewels without a fight... If you want to know why I am so angry with University Libraries read the bottom of the post as well... I’ll go through and annotate it – Like a peer-reviewer. Because after all that’s why we pay Elsevier isn’t it? – because without them we’d be incapable of organising peer-review...”

Link:

http://blogs.ch.cam.ac.uk/pmr/2012/02/10/elsevier-foobar-and-content-mining-%E2%80%93-yet-another-digital-land-grab-%E2%80%93-wake-up-academia-and-fight-or-surrender-for-ever/

Updated:

08/16/2012, 06:08

From feeds:

Open Access Tracking Project (OATP) » abernard102@gmail.com

Tags:

oa.new oa.data oa.business_models oa.publishers oa.mining oa.comment oa.elsevier oa.libraries oa.costs

Authors:

abernard

Date tagged:

08/20/2012, 15:11

Date published:

02/10/2012, 17:25