This document discusses data availability policies and licensing. It covers the social contract of science including validation, dissemination and further development. It also discusses scientific malpractice by publishers, researchers and libraries. The document advocates for fair use copyright exceptions to allow mining of text and data for research and teaching. It summarizes benefits of text mining but notes issues with the "Licenses for Europe" initiative, including an unbalanced setup and lack of representation for the technology sector. Civil society has walked out of working group discussions on text and data mining licenses.

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Hole
The
Now
and
Future
of
Data
Publishing,
Oxford,
22
May
2013
Data
availability
policies
and
licensing

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The
Social
Contract
of
Science
• ValidaLon
• DisseminaLon
• Further
development
ScienLfic
MalpracLce
• Publishers
• Researchers
• Libraries,
repositories…

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• To
allow
use
material
for
research:
private
study,
criLcism
and
review.
Academics,
public,
private
sector.
We
need
fair
use
copyright
excep8ons
• 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
excepLons
are
currently
not
harmonized
across
the
world,
so
researchers
have
to
deal
with
a
different
set
of
excepLons
in
each
country
• The
Hargreaves
report
recommended
this
for
the
UK
but
it
is
not
yet
in
law

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Text
and
data
mining
[the
benefits
of
text
mining
include]:
“increased
researcher
efficiency;
unlocking
hidden
informaLon
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
producLvity
gains,
innovaLve
new
service
development,
new
business
models
and
new
medical
treatments.”
JISC
“The
downstream
value
of
high
quality,
high
throughput
chemical
informaLon
extracted
from
the
literature
can
be
measured
against
convenLonal
abstracLon
services…
with
a
combined
annual
turnover
of
perhaps
$500-­‐1,000
million
dollars.
We
believe
our
tools
are
capable
of
building
the
next
and
beeer
generaLon
of
services.”
Peter
Murray-­‐Rust

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“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
excepLons
allowed
but
not
to
be
part
of
recommendaLons.
• 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
associaLon
that
this
is
important
to
you.

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Leeer
on
Licenses
for
Europe
concerns:
hep://www.coadec.com/more-­‐licences-­‐for-­‐europe