Tag Archives: Text Mining
Open access to research is inevitable, says Nature editor-in-chief
Open access to research is inevitable, says Nature editor-in-chiefPhilipp Campbell, editor-in-chief of Nature said at a briefing by academic publishers on open access at the Science Media Centre:
“In the future, there will be text mining and tools … that need to get into that literature - I see that as a key part of the future and it’s hard to see how that could work without open access.”
The Guardian.
The Right to Read Is the Right to Mine
The Right to Read Is the Right to MineThe 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.
Text mining: what do publishers have against this hi-tech research tool?
Text mining: what do publishers have against this hi-tech research tool?Researchers push for end to publishers’ default ban on computer scanning of tens of thousands of papers to find links between genes and diseases.
The Guadian.