Is Europe falling behind in data mining? Copyright's impact on data mining in academic research

Christian Handke; Lucie Guibault; Joan Josep Vallbé

doi:10.3233/978-1-61499-562-3-120

Is Europe falling behind in data mining? Copyright's impact on data mining in academic research

Christian Handke^*, Lucie Guibault, Joan Josep Vallbé

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Department of Arts and Culture Studies

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Abstract

With the diffusion of digital information technology, data mining (DM) is widely expected to increase the productivity of all kinds of research activities. Based on bibliometric data, we demonstrate that the share of DM-related research articles in all published academic papers has increased substantially over the last two decades. We develop an ordinal categorization of countries according to essential aspects of the copyright system affecting the costs and benefits of DM research. We demonstrate that countries in which data mining for academic research requires the express consent of rights holders, data mining makes up a significantly smaller share of total research output. To our knowledge, this is the first time that an empirical study identified a significant negative association between copyright protection and innovation. We also show that within countries where DM requires express consent by rights holders, there is an inverse relationship between rule of law indicators and the share of DM related articles in all research articles.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	New Avenues for Electronic Publishing in the Age of Infinite Collections and Citizen Science
Subtitle of host publication	Scale, Openness and Trust - Proceedings of the 19th International Conference on Electronic Publishing, Elpub 2015
Editors	Birgit Schmidt, Milena Dobreva
Publisher	IOS Press BV
Pages	120-130
Number of pages	11
ISBN (Electronic)	9781614995616
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.3233/978-1-61499-562-3-120
Publication status	Published - 2015
Event	19th International Conference on Electronic Publishing, Elpub 2015 - Malta, Malta Duration: 1 Sept 2015 → 3 Sept 2015

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Series	New Avenues for Electronic Publishing in the Age of Infinite Collections and Citizen Science: Scale, Openness and Trust - Proceedings of the 19th International Conference on Electronic Publishing, Elpub 2015

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Conference	19th International Conference on Electronic Publishing, Elpub 2015
Country/Territory	Malta
City	Malta
Period	1/09/15 → 3/09/15

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Handke, C., Guibault, L., & Vallbé, J. J. (2015). Is Europe falling behind in data mining? Copyright's impact on data mining in academic research. In B. Schmidt, & M. Dobreva (Eds.), New Avenues for Electronic Publishing in the Age of Infinite Collections and Citizen Science: Scale, Openness and Trust - Proceedings of the 19th International Conference on Electronic Publishing, Elpub 2015 (pp. 120-130). IOS Press BV. https://doi.org/10.3233/978-1-61499-562-3-120

Handke, Christian ; Guibault, Lucie ; Vallbé, Joan Josep. / Is Europe falling behind in data mining? Copyright's impact on data mining in academic research. New Avenues for Electronic Publishing in the Age of Infinite Collections and Citizen Science: Scale, Openness and Trust - Proceedings of the 19th International Conference on Electronic Publishing, Elpub 2015. editor / Birgit Schmidt ; Milena Dobreva. IOS Press BV, 2015. pp. 120-130 (New Avenues for Electronic Publishing in the Age of Infinite Collections and Citizen Science: Scale, Openness and Trust - Proceedings of the 19th International Conference on Electronic Publishing, Elpub 2015).

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Handke, C, Guibault, L & Vallbé, JJ 2015, Is Europe falling behind in data mining? Copyright's impact on data mining in academic research. in B Schmidt & M Dobreva (eds), New Avenues for Electronic Publishing in the Age of Infinite Collections and Citizen Science: Scale, Openness and Trust - Proceedings of the 19th International Conference on Electronic Publishing, Elpub 2015. IOS Press BV, New Avenues for Electronic Publishing in the Age of Infinite Collections and Citizen Science: Scale, Openness and Trust - Proceedings of the 19th International Conference on Electronic Publishing, Elpub 2015, pp. 120-130, 19th International Conference on Electronic Publishing, Elpub 2015, Malta, Malta, 1/09/15. https://doi.org/10.3233/978-1-61499-562-3-120

Is Europe falling behind in data mining? Copyright's impact on data mining in academic research. / Handke, Christian; Guibault, Lucie; Vallbé, Joan Josep.
New Avenues for Electronic Publishing in the Age of Infinite Collections and Citizen Science: Scale, Openness and Trust - Proceedings of the 19th International Conference on Electronic Publishing, Elpub 2015. ed. / Birgit Schmidt; Milena Dobreva. IOS Press BV, 2015. p. 120-130 (New Avenues for Electronic Publishing in the Age of Infinite Collections and Citizen Science: Scale, Openness and Trust - Proceedings of the 19th International Conference on Electronic Publishing, Elpub 2015).

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Handke C, Guibault L, Vallbé JJ. Is Europe falling behind in data mining? Copyright's impact on data mining in academic research. In Schmidt B, Dobreva M, editors, New Avenues for Electronic Publishing in the Age of Infinite Collections and Citizen Science: Scale, Openness and Trust - Proceedings of the 19th International Conference on Electronic Publishing, Elpub 2015. IOS Press BV. 2015. p. 120-130. (New Avenues for Electronic Publishing in the Age of Infinite Collections and Citizen Science: Scale, Openness and Trust - Proceedings of the 19th International Conference on Electronic Publishing, Elpub 2015). doi: 10.3233/978-1-61499-562-3-120

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