ATG Article of the Week: Elsevier Experiments With Allowing ‘Text Mining’ of Its Journals

On May 8, 2012 · 2 Comments · In Article of the Week

This article by Jennifer Howard from The Chronicle on May 6, 2012, discusses how Heather Piwowar (University of British Columbia) helped negotiate a deal with Elsevier to experiment with text mining of its journals. It all started with a tweet:

High-profile scholarly boycotts aren’t the only way to get a big publisher’s attention. Sometimes all it takes is a tweet. Not long ago, Heather A. Piwowar, a postdoctoral researcher at the University of British Columbia, found herself on the phone with six high-level employees of the science-publishing giant Elsevier.

For more information, read the article on the Chronicle’s website (subscription required). Also, you can check out Heather’s Twitter feed @researchremix or her blog at http://researchremix.wordpress.com/.

UPDATE 05-09-2012
Comment from Jennifer Howard: Thanks very much for noting the article. Anyone who doesn’t have a CHE subscription: Drop me an email at jennifer DOT howard AT chronicle DOT com and I’ll send you the story.

2 Responses to ATG Article of the Week: Elsevier Experiments With Allowing ‘Text Mining’ of Its Journals

Jennifer Howard says:

May 9, 2012 at 7:47 pm

Thanks very much for noting the article. Anyone who doesn’t have a CHE subscription: Drop me an email at jennifer DOT howard AT chronicle DOT com and I’ll send you the story.

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- Leah Hinds says:
  
  May 9, 2012 at 9:02 pm
  
  Thanks Jennifer! I’ll note your offer in the original post above to be sure our readers see it.
  
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