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Brian HoleThe Now and Future of Data Publishing, Oxford, 22 May 2013

Data availability policiesand licensing


The Social Contract of Science

• Validation

• Dissemination

• Further development

Scientific Malpractice

• Publishers

• Researchers

• Libraries, repositories…


• To allow use material for research: private study, criticism and review. Academics, public, private sector.

We need fair use copyright exceptions

• To allow mining of both text and data, by academics and private sector.

• To allow material to be freely used in teaching and exams

• Copyright exceptions are currently not harmonized across the world, so researchers have to deal with a different set of exceptions in each country

• The Hargreaves report recommended this for the UK but it is not yet in law


Text and data mining

[the benefits of text mining include]: “increased researcher efficiency; unlocking hidden information and developing new knowledge; exploring new horizons; improved research and evidence base; and improving the search process and quality. Broader economic and societal benefits include cost savings and productivity gains, innovative new service development, new business models and new medical treatments.”

JISC

“The downstream value of high quality, high throughput chemical information extracted from the literature can be measured against conventional abstraction services… with a combined annual turnover of perhaps $500-1,000 million dollars. We believe our tools are capable of building the next and better generation of services.”

Peter Murray-Rust


“Licences for Europe”

• Focus is to create new licenses to enable TDM• I.e. researcher would need one license from each

publisher. Much TDM work involves hundreds of publishers, can take weeks just for one.

• Focus pre-determined from start: to come up with proposals on licenses only. Discussion of exceptions allowed but not to be part of recommendations.

• Unbalanced setup: large corporate publishers, technology sector poorly represented.

Working Group 4: Text and Data Mining

• Where we are now: civil society walk-out. Not prepared to endorse licenses as acceptable. Workshop tba Q4 2013.

• Tell your publisher or association that this is important to you.


Links

@[email protected]

http://www.ubiquitypress.com

Letter on Licenses for Europe concerns:http://www.coadec.com/more-licences-for-europe

http://www.ubiquitypress.com/

http://www.coadec.com/more-licences-for-europe



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