Role of PLS in Text and Data Mining Licences for Europe WG4 Friday 8 th March 2013 Sarah Faulder Chief Executive Publishers Licensing Society

Solutions Addressing two of the top four solutions proposed in PRC report, Journal Article Mining (May 2011): 1.A central window to handle licence requests: Rights holder search and discovery 2.Commonly agreed access terms: Aggregated licensing solution (including possible Click through licence enabling automated delivery) for smaller publishers

Rights holder search and discovery The issue: TDM involves access to and usage of articles in bulk Researchers need to track and contact potentially hundreds of publishers for permission to mine their text Managing high volumes of requests Connecting researchers to rights owners - search and discovery

Rights holder search and discovery The solution: A single discovery portal through which researchers can both find the appropriate publisher(s) and route their permissions requests to the relevant person in the publishing house

Rights holder search and discovery Role of PLS (and possibly other RROs): Publishers already entrust licensing their secondary rights to PLS on a non-exclusive basis As a result PLS has built arguably the most comprehensive database in the UK of publishers and their content (by ISBN / ISSN and, in due course, by DOI) With potential for access to publishers worldwide through other RROs

Rights holder search and discovery The PLS Clearing House Researchers will be invited to open an account to identify themselves and their authority within their organisation They will be asked a set of questions about their research to which all publishers will need answers – once only - this will speed up licensing process Feedback mechanism will enable development of knowledge base to help improve service in future. Prototype in April Fully functional by mid

Rights holder search and discovery The facility will: Offer an easy free to use, unambiguous common interface for researchers to make requests Not be limited to subscribed content or non-commercial use Direct requests to mine particular texts to the relevant publisher Offer a simple reminder system to help track responses to requests

Licensing solution: our vision TDM presents a technical infrastructure problem first and foremost Licensing is a necessary means of managing access to content where: o Scale of access increases risk of leakage and therefore piracy and o Puts an unacceptable strain on publisher platforms not designed for systematic crawling and scraping PLS already has experience of licensing on behalf of the large number of small and medium sized publishers who are not in a position to negotiate direct licences

Licensing solution: our vision The industry is developing model licences for publishers to use in meeting the text mining needs of researchers Current challenges: finding researchers willing fully to explain their needs to the industry Our vision: either in collaboration with other service providers or alone, that PLS can enable licensing for the text mining needs of researchers by means of a seamless click through process following on from our clearing house