Why the Research Works Act doesn’t affect text-mining research

“As the the central digital repository for life science publications, PubMed Central (PMC) is one of the most significant resources for making the Open Access movement a tangible reality for researchers and citizens around the world. Articles in PMC are deposited through two routes: either automatically by journals that participate in the PMC system, or directly by authors for journals that do not. Author deposition of peer-reviewed manuscripts in PMC is mandated by funders in order to make the results of publicly- or charity-funded research maximally accessible, and has led to over 180,000 articles being made free (gratis)... However, from a text-miner’s perspective author-deposited manuscripts in PMC are closed access since, while they can be downloaded and read individually, virtually none (