- Emory regularly negotiates contracts for collections that include explicit clauses for the allowance of text/data mining, at a reasonable cost, and which allow for the creation of local backups and preservation in our digital repository. Where required, updated licenses will be requested and renegotiated.
- The creation and preparing of such licensed materials takes time, so as much advance notice as possible is preferred so that requests can be procssed in a timely fashion.
- Generally, we also do not provide licensing or funding for individual text-mining projects with needs not covered by university wide licenses. Some vendors may require walled garden approaches to control and manage access to large amounts of their data. Frequently, fees are charged by the project. The library is unable to pay for project by project fees, but will attempt to negotiate with the vendor for a more institutional solution. Therefore, as noted above, we highly encourage scholars to consider grant funding in these cases.
A more thorough policy statement is on Woodruff Library's Collections site.