The Publishing Research Consortium (PRC) has published its latest research report titled 'Journal Article Mining - A research study into Practices, Policies, Plans..... and Promises.' The research was carried out at the beginning of 2011 by Eefke Smit and Maurits van der Graaf in the form of a series of detailed interviews and a survey of scholarly publishers.
The report focuses on the state of content mining in the arena of academic and professional publications, journal articles in particular. Academic and professional publishers frequently receive requests from parties wishing to mine their content and face uncontrolled downloads or crawling. More and more publishers are seen to undertake content mining on their own journal content. The PRC study aims to provide more insight into practices, policies for permission requests, publishers' plans and possibilities to facilitate better content mining. The report analysis is based on 190 responses.
Participants of the study expect increased interest in text and data mining, in line with greater availability of digital content and improved access to mining tools for the end-user. Standardisation of formats for content mining was the most popular solution for making mining easier across multiple publisher platforms.
The full report is available online on the PRC website at http://www.publishingresearch.net/documents/PRCSmitJAMreport20June2011VersionofRecord.pdf.
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