The Right to Read Is the Right to Mine

The Open Knowledge Foundation set definition, principles and stragegies on text / content mining.

While Open Access (OA) is improving the ability for researchers to read papers (by removing  access barriers), still only around 20% of scholarly papers are OA. The  remainder are locked  behind paywalls. As per the vast majority of subscription contracts, Subscribers may read paywalled papers, but they may not mine them.