The Right to Read Is the Right to Mine
The Open Knowledge Foundation set definition, principles and stragegies on text / content mining.
While Open Access (OA) is improving the ability for researchers to read papers (by removing access barriers), still only around 20% of scholarly papers are OA. The remainder are locked behind paywalls. As per the vast majority of subscription contracts, Subscribers may read paywalled papers, but they may not mine them.
