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On Jul 14, 2014, at 5:29 PM, Ben Companjen <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

> This will not answer your question, but LIBER has a response to the TDM API policies:
> 
> http://libereurope.eu/news/over-40-signatories-ask-elsevier-to-withdraw-tdm-policy/
> 
> Peter Murray-Rust posted quite a few times about it on his blog
> too, e.g. http://blogs.ch.cam.ac.uk/pmr/2014/06/10/6054/
> 
> The main objection is that the licence for usage is too narrow - and that
> most libraries already pay for access. I recall that you cannot do
> [anything useful] with whatever you find while TDMing this data.


Yes, apparently I (my application) needs to become “entitled” in order to get the full-text, and even then I’ve discovered the resulting XML is pretty ugly. I will wait. Thank you for the reply. —Eric Morgan