Elsevier and Springer Nature publisher-gated TDM APIs

Elsevier and Springer Nature route text-and-data-mining (TDM) access to their combined 5,500+ journals through publisher-gated APIs under click-through licenses that cap mining rate, restrict republishing, and assert publisher rights over derivative outputs. Elsevier has reported institutional contract violations to universities when researchers attempted bulk download through standard subscribed access.

Use: E-0032, C-0020.

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