Licensing for text and data mining (TDM)

[Jan Stühmer]

Hi all,

I have a question about licensing of the articles available as bulk downloads at https://europepmc.org/downloads

Which articles of the Europe PMC bulk downloads are licensed for text and data mining (TDM)?

Are all articles available for TDM or would individual articles need to be checked, if there exists a TDM exemption? If so, is there a way to perform this check automatically via an API?

Thank you and kind regards,

Jan Stühmer

[Madhumiethaa Jayaprabha Palanisamy]

Hi Jan,

Thanks for your question. All articles available via the Europe PMC bulk download are part of the Open Access subset and are free to read, use, text mine, reference, and cite (CC BY and CC0).

That said, copyright compliance remains the responsibility of the user. If you plan to reuse substantial parts of an article such as figures, images, or tables, you should review the specific license attached to each article.

For programmatic license checks, the Europe PMC Search API supports filtering by license using the LICENSE field, see the search syntax reference for details.
You can also retrieve availability and license fields from the API response. 
More details can found here, 
https://europepmc.org/RestfulWebService
https://europepmc.org/docs/EBI_Europe_PMC_Web_Service_Reference.pdf.

Hope this helps.

Thanks,
Madhu