Talk given at the The Now and Future of Data Publishing, Oxford, 22 May 2013.

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Brian 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
• Validation
• Dissemination
• Further development
Scientific Malpractice
• Publishers
• Researchers
• Libraries, repositories…

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• 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

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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

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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 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.

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