“Hot Type: Elsevier Experiments With Allowing ‘Text Mining’ of Its Journals”

In my latest column, I look into an unusual deal struck by Heather Piwowar, a postdoc at the University of British Columbia, with the science-publishing giant Elsevier. The deal got its start in a Twitter exchange between Piwowar and Alicia Wise, Elsevier's director of universal access. It will allow UBC researchers to text-mine Elsevier journal content, including its subscription-only databases.