Data mining

Publishers, researchers and start-ups lobby lawmakers squabbling over the policy minutiae of a largely forbidden hi-tech research tool

Relaxed rules on massing and analysing data for commercial gain viewed as an opportunity for the UK after it leaves the bloc

Copyright file making its way through European Parliament should be redrafted to include a broader set of exceptions for R&D, science funding and research bodies say

Rights to freely search journal databases will improve the situation for some public sector researchers, but excluding start-ups from the proposal means it will be harder for them to grow and raise funds from investors

EU Commission presents its plan to ease copyright laws, but the limited scope leaves some unhappy

Leaked papers reveal data analytics start-ups would not benefit from new text and mining rules, however

Dutch EU presidency has vowed to bring countries together on open access, but a new study reveals there is a long way to go in making journals subscription-free

As the volume of information soars, it is no longer enough to search for papers - researchers need computers to read and analyse them too, says Jon Hill, computational biologist at Boehringer Ingelheim

Researchers will be given freedom to interrogate and search articles currently locked behind journal paywalls. But scientists want faster progress and publishers say the Commission should move carefully when proposing changes to copyright law

The LightOn project is the result of a longstanding and interdisciplinary collaboration between the inventors on optical information processing.