So says a report commissioned by the Publishing Research Consortium.
While many publishers continue to be unsure of the business models for journal data mining, they are generally open to the modest number of requests they receive for data mining projects. Respondents also suggested ways to make data mining easier, from increasing data standardization to the more extreme possibility of creating a single combined platform to mine data from multiple sources.
The study, written by Eefke Smit and Maurits van der Graaf, reports on results of interviews with 29 individuals from academia, libraries, publishers, and pharmaceutical companies involved in journal data mining. It also presents results from a survey of members of the International Association of Scientific, Technical & Medical Publishers (STM) and members of CrossRef.
The accesible report is written for an intelligent business audience and is well worth a read for those wanting a non-technical overview of the issues surrounding datamining.