What is TDM?
Text and Data Mining (TDM) is the process of automatically extracting large amounts of usable data with the objective of finding patterns or correlations to achieve new insights.
Australia does not have a TDM copyright exemption, therefore to legally use publishers' data it must be included in the licence terms and conditions.
- Australian Government: Text and Data Mining Copyright And The Digital Economy laws regarding Text And Data Mining
Publishers that permit TDM
Publishers that allow TDM for non-commercial purposes include:
Most licences do not yet permit TDM at all and the publishers require researchers to individually request permission.
Open resources for TDM
There are also open resources available. These have variable terms and conditions which must be checked before embarking on a TDM project. Resources include:
- Hathi Digital Trust HathiTrust is a not-for-profit collaborative of academic and research libraries preserving 17+ million digitized items.
- PLOS PLOS is a nonprofit, Open Access publisher empowering researchers to accelerate progress in science and medicine by leading a transformation in research communication. 200,000+ PLOS articles may be mined, reused, and shared by anyone, anywhere, for any purpose.
- PubMed PubMed is a free resource supporting the search and retrieval of biomedical and life sciences literature with the aim of improving health–both globally and personally. Once a year, NLM releases a complete (baseline) set of PubMed citation records in XML format for download from our FTP servers. Incremental update files are released daily and include new, revised, and deleted citations.
The Library Catalogue has many books and ebooks available on TDM which are continuously updated.
- UTS Catalogue: TDM Search the Library Catalogue using the keywords 'data mining'
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