Data mining

Microsoft is following Amazon and a string of other US companies in announcing new investments in European data centres following the scrapping of the Safe Harbour data pact between the EU and US

EU Research Commissioner reiterates his support for ending restrictions on data mining of research papers

Despite seeing her text on copyright reform watered down in a European Parliament vote in June, MEP Julia Reda tells Science|Business the case for data mining of published research is too strong for the EU to ignore

EU moves to make data mining by researchers exempt from copyright law would not remove the technical barriers. The right way to open up this resource is through a single sign-on licensing service, says Duncan Campbell, Director at John Wiley & Sons

European Parliament’s legal affairs committee backs reform of copyright law to allow text and data mining of academic journals for research, in a vote closely watched by scientists

The scene is set for intense lobbying by scientists and journal publishing companies between now and the autumn, when long-awaited reforms of EU copyright law must address the contentious issue of text and data mining