May 6, 2012
Elsevier Experiments With Allowing 'Text Mining' of Its Journals
Courtesy of Heather Piwowar
Heather Piwowar, of the U. of British Columbia, helped negotiate the deal.
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Courtesy of Heather Piwowar
Heather Piwowar, of the U. of British Columbia, helped negotiate the deal.
High-profile scholarly boycotts aren't the only way to get a big publisher's attention. Sometimes all it takes is a tweet.
Not long ago, Heather A. Piwowar, a postdoctoral researcher at the University of British Columbia, found herself on the phone with six high-level employees of the science-publishing giant Elsevier. Ms. Piwowar studies patterns in the sharing and reuse of research data. (Her Twitter handle is @researchremix.) Her work depends on text mining, using computers to
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