The publishers listed below allow TDM. Most require use of an API. Wherever possible, access and licensing notes are provided. If you have any questions about licensing, access, or would like to use materials from a publisher not listed here, contact us and we can help you.  

Always consult the Terms and Conditions published on the website or with any API documentation, as they may outline further specific restrictions and these are frequently updated.  

These terms apply to all licensed journal articles. Open access materials may have fewer conditions.

• Do not use the materials for commercial purposes. Use only for non-commercial research purposes 
• Do not share licensed materials with third parties who are not licensed to use the materials (i.e. someone not affiliated with U of T) 
• Do not publish the materials to the Web 
• Do not create a parallel resource or any resource that would compete with the licensed materials 
  • Do not create a database or other publicly available resource based on the data 
• Do not upload the data to third party AI platforms (for example Chat GPT) 
• If you are going to use a LLM to analyze the data, ensure that this is permitted. In cases where it is, the LLM must be locally hosted and backend-facing 
• Cite the material appropriately 
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American Chemical Society (ACS) 

Additional License Terms 

• Data to be kept only for the duration of the project 
• Data not to be mixed with third party data 
• Quotation, citation and use according to fair dealing in outputs is permitted 

  • DOI line should point back to original article 

• TDM output available online limited to 150 characters or 15 words and should be query-dependent 
• Project collaborators outside of UofT need to be approved by ACS 
• For TDM with ACS materials, please contact us

Cambridge University Press  

• General license terms apply 
• Website Terms of Use 
• Contact openresearch@cambridge.org for access to materials

Elsevier 

• Data to be stored on a secure Canadian computer or server 
• Elsevier Text and Data Mining Policies 
• Access the materials via an API You can request an API key through Elsevier's developer portal

IEEE 

• You must notify IEEE before conducting TDM 
• You will need to request a full-text API key using the contact form 
• APIs information  
• Quick Start Guide   

Oxford University Press 

• For TDM access, contact Data.Mining@oup.com 
  • OUP will supply further terms 
• OUP Text Mining Page 

PLOS (Open Access)

• PLOS TDM policy and data 

PubMed 

• E-utilities API  
• Quick start guide. 

Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) 

• Please contact us if you’d like RSC materials for TDM 

• Notify RSC via ejournals@rsc.org at least two (2) weeks before they wish to carry out the Text and Data Mining and give the Licensor the following information:  
  • Date to start: 
  • Completion date: 
  • Institution: 
  • Crawler IP address: 

    • Crawler user agent: TDMCrawler (please set user agent to this)  

  • Types of content (HTML / PDF)  
  • Institution contact email:  
  • Researcher contact email:  
  • The Text and Data Mining should be carried out in the following manner:  
  • Keeping delays to 10-20 seconds between requests.  
  • Set the user agent to TDMCrawler, adding contact and project information.  

Springer Nature 

• Sign up using your U of T email address at Springer’s Developer Portal. 
• API Terms of Use 
• Text and data mining at Springer  

Wiley 

• Use the Wiley API to access materials for TDM 
• Wiley Text and Data Mining Policies and Procedures