Friends: I received this from another list and I thought that the Indian LIS community might find it relevant. Arun ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Lieke Ploeger <lieke.ploeger@okfn.org> Date: Thu, Jul 10, 2014 at 2:39 PM Subject: [OpenGLAM] Fwd: [open-science] Open letter to Elsevier Dear all, This week LIBER, the Association of European Research Libraires, together with 17 internationa library and research organisations, issued an open letter to Elsevier calling to withdraw its current policy on text and data mining (TDM). The letter requests that Elsevier withdraw its TDM policy because it places unfair restrictions on how researchers can mine content to which they have legal access to and how they disseminate the results of their research. From the letter: "TDM is a digital research method which enables the analysis of vast and heterogeneous types of content. It has led to new medical and scientific discoveries and is set to be key to increasing the productivity of research and become an established element of research methodologies. Europe is falling behind in the exploitation of TDM because the lack of clarity in the current European copyright framework is disincentivising the uptake of TDM by researchers. In the UK, an exception for TDM has been introduced into legislation. What this means is that TDM will no longer be an activity that is subject to licence in the UK; any researcher will be free to mine content to which their institution has legal access. We see no reason that researchers across Europe and beyond should not have equal rights to mine content to which they have legal access." This letter is part of LIBER’s larger campaign for a European copyright exception for TDM - the full letter is available here: http://libereurope.eu/news/european-research-organisations-call-on-elsevier-... It is open to further signatories, so please disseminate amongst your networks! Individuals or organisations wishing to sign the letter should forward their details and logo to susan.reilly@kb.nl (Susan Reilly, Advocacy & Projects Manager, LIBER). Best regards, Lieke Ploeger. -- Lieke Ploeger Community Manager | skype: laploeger | @liekeploeger <https://twitter.com/liekeploeger> The Open Knowledge Foundation <http://okfn.org/> -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.