Negotiating a Text Mining License for Faculty Researchers

Authors

  • Leslie A. Williams
  • Lynne M Fox Health Sciences Library, University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus
  • Christophe Roeder
  • Lawrence Hunter

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.6017/ital.v33i3.5485

Abstract

This case study examines strategies used to leverage the library’s existing journal licenses to obtain a large collection of full-text journal articles in extensible markup language (XML) format; the right to text mine the collection; and the right to use the collection and the data mined from it for grant-funded research to develop biomedical natural language processing (BNLP) tools. Researchers attempted to obtain content directly from PubMed Central (PMC). This attempt failed due to limits on use of content in PMC. Next researchers and their library liaison attempted to obtain content from contacts in the technical divisions of the publishing industry. This resulted in an incomplete research data set. Then researchers, the library liaison, and the acquisitions librarian collaborated with the sales and technical staff of a major science, technology, engineering, and medical (STEM) publisher to successfully create a method for obtaining XML content as an extension of the library’s typical acquisition process for electronic resources. Our experience led us to realize that text mining rights of full-text articles in XML format should routinely be included in the negotiation of the library’s licenses.

Author Biography

Lynne M Fox, Health Sciences Library, University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus

Lynne Fox, MLS, MA, AHIP, is assistant professor and Education Librarian at the Health Sciences Library, University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus.  As Education Librarian, Lynne conducts and coordinates in-person and asynchronous training and creates online tutorials on a wide variety of information resources. Lynne has been a librarian tutor for the Rocky Mountain Evidence Based Medicine Workshop, an intensive weeklong workshop conducted by internationally known leaders in the field of EBHC.  She has been a librarian for almost 30  years and was admitted as a distinguished member of the Academy of Health Information Professional in 1999. In 2009, Lynne was awarded the Marla Graber Award for Excellence and Achievement by the Colorado Council of Medical Librarians (CCML). In 2010, she received the Bernice M. Hetzner Award for Excellence in Academic Health Science Librarianship from the Midcontinental Chapter of MLA. In addition to her work as a librarian, Lynne is a member of the School of Medicine's Hunter Lab, a group researching the use of ontologies and natural language processing in data mining of the biomedical literature.  Lynne has a Masters in Library Science (1984) from the University of Michigan and an MA in History (1996) from the University of Northern Colorado. Lynne was a Council member for the City of Thornton, which is Colorado’s sixth largest city, from 2009-2013.  Her vita can be found at: http://hsl2.ucdenver.edu/education/foxvita.pdf

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2014-09-25

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Williams, L. A., Fox, L. M., Roeder, C., & Hunter, L. (2014). Negotiating a Text Mining License for Faculty Researchers. Information Technology and Libraries, 33(3), 5–21. https://doi.org/10.6017/ital.v33i3.5485

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