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From: Clifford Lynch <cliff@cni.org>
Subject: Open Computation, Text Mining and OTMI
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We've just put a chapter that I've written speculating about the 
interactions between the emerging technologies of text mining, the 
licensing of scholarly journals in electronic form, and open access 
on the CNI web site. This is available as an HTML file or a PDF as 
the first entry on

http://www.cni.org/staff/clifford_publications.html

The chapter was written as part of a forthcoming book on open access 
edited by Neil Jacobs of JISC. You can find information about the 
(hardcopy) book at:

http://www.chandospublishing.com/catalogue/record_detail.php?recordID=103


Many of the other chapters have been archived in various 
institutional repositories or available through author web sites, and 
a number have already been featured on Peter Suber's invaluable Open 
Access News blog (see 
http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/fosblog.html); it looks like this 
is going to be a very valuable snapshot of international open access 
developments as of mid-2006.

Recently, there have been some very interesting developments as 
various parts of the scholarly publishing community engage questions 
related to text mining technologies. Of particular interest is the 
work of the Nature Publishing group on the Open Text Mining Interface 
(OTMI). For a description of this work, see

http://blogs.nature.com/wp/nascent/2006/04/open_text_mining_interface.html

The recent Nature editorial at

http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v440/n7088/full/4401090a.html

will also be of interest.

I expect that CNI will be exploring  many of these questions further 
in future programmatic work.

Clifford Lynch
Director, CNI