Nature: Researchers who want to collect data from published papers often rely on software to scrape the information. However, for researchers in the European Union (EU), paywalled content and copyright restrictions hamper their ability to do so. Now, the European Commission has proposed that text and data mining be exempted from copyright for research organizations, such as universities, that have legal access to the research. The proposal should alleviate the concerns of many European researchers, who, according to an EU report, perform less data mining than their American and Asian counterparts.
