Academic Research

Call to Unlock a Treasure Chest of Hidden Research Data

Publishers are resisting a change to copyright law that would allow academics to digitally mine published research to help crack intractable problems

Helen Lock | June 9, 2015

What would happen if academics could join the dots between the huge number of research articles that have been published digitally?
Academics argue there are links waiting to be discovered that could help us tackle the most pressing questions facing society, in areas ranging from healthcare to the humanities. 
...At the moment copyright law limits the amount of data that can be mined by researchers.

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