Text and Data Mining Resources

Definition

• A Beginner’s Guide to Text-Mining
• Web Scraping vs Data Mining: What’s the Difference? (2020)
• What is Data Mining?
• What is Text Analysis? (TIBCO)
• What is text analysis and data mining? (RMIT University Library)
• What is Text Mining? (IBM)
• What is Text Mining, Text Analytics and Natural Language Processing?

Glossaries

• Data Mining Concepts – Glossary (Oracle)
• Data Mining Terminologies | Data Mining Glossary of Terms (RF Wireless World)
• Glossary of Data Mining Terms (Two Crows Consulting) 
• Key Terms & Definitions (UC Merced Library)
• Text & Data Mining (Library Carpentry)
• Text and Data Mining (Elsevier)

TDM Resources

• A Beginner’s Guide to Data Mining Techniques
• Analyzing Text Data – Overview of Text Analysis and Text Mining (GWU)
• Digital Scholarship: Computational Text Analysis (Union College Schaffer Libraries)
• Effective Use of Statistics in Research – Methods and Tools for Data Analysis
• Text & Data Mining: Overview (Carnegie Mellon University Libraries)
• Text and Data Mining (University of Sydney)

Reducing Barriers to TDM

• A Deeper Look into the EU Text and Data Mining Exceptions: Harmonisation, Data Ownership, and the Future of Technology (2022)
• An Overview of Copyright Restrictions to Legal TDM Research (M. Palmedo) (2022)
• Big data gets big help – Law and policy literacies for text data mining (2020)
• Building Legal Literacies for Text Data Mining
• Copyright: Text and Data Mining – New Rules? (2020)    
• Copyright and the Progress of Science: Why Text and Data Mining Is Lawful (M.W. Carroll)(2019)
• Copyright as an Obstacle or an Enabler? A European Perspective on Text and Data Mining and Its Role in the Development of AI Creativity (2020)
• Copyright’s impact on data mining in academic research (2021)
• IFLA Statement on Text and Data Mining (2019)
• Licensing for AI and TDM applications (RSC)
• New Survey on Access Barriers to Text and Data Mining Research (P Aufderheide) (2022)
• Reducing Barriers and Increasing Uptake of Text and Data Mining for Research Environments … (Europe)- Issue Brief
• Text & Data Mining (Maurizio Borghi)
• Text and Data Mining – TDM in relation to the right to research (M.M. Wardeh) (2021)
• Text and Data Mining – What Librarians Need to Know (2013)
• Text and Data Mining and Fair Use in the United States (ARL) (2015)
• Text and Data Mining in Intellectual Property Law: Towards an Autonomous Classification of Computational Legal Methods
• The Exception for Text and Data Mining (TDM)in the Proposed Directive on Copyright in the Digital Single Market – Technical Aspects (European Parliament)
• The Law of Data Scraping: A review of UK law on text and data mining (2021)
• The right to read is the right to mine (PLoS)
• UK government drops preference for text and data mining exception in AI copyright review (2026)
• Value and benefits of text mining (JISC)
• WIPO Conversation on Intellectual Property (IP) and Artificial Intelligence (AI) (Second Session) (Revised May 2021)

Data Collection & Analysis – Tools and Methods

• 7 Data Collection Methods & Tools for Research (2023)
• 12 Data Modeling Tools for Data Analysis (2025)
• 43 Top Data Mining Software
• Data scraping from a South African perspective (2022)
• Text & Data Mining: What is TDM? (Cambridge Libraries) (Libguide)
• Text and Data Mining: Getting Started (NTU Library)
• Text and Data Mining – Explore resources available for Text and data Mining from ANU Library
• Text and Mining: Home (UNC)
• Text and Data Mining Resources Guide: Home (Carnegie Mellon University Libraries)
• Text and Mining: Overview (WashU Libraries)
• Text and Data Mining Guide: Text Mining Crash Course (WashU Libraries)
• Text Mining Tools and Methods: Introduction (University of Illinois – Urbana Campaign)
• The Beginner’s Guide to Statistical Analysis | 5 Steps & Examples
• Top 15 Best Free Data Mining Tools: The Most Comprehensive List
• Top Text Mining Tools and Softwares in 2026

Data/Datasets – Resources 

• Awesome Public Datasets
• Covid-19 Data Repository
• Data Resources (Wits LibGuide)
• Data Repository Finder (DataCite Commons)
• Data Set Search
• Databases – A registry of knowledgebases and repositories of data and other digital assets.
• Free Data Sources (Carnegie Mellon University Libraries)
• Free Open Data Sources

Free Public Data Sets for Analysis

• Data Archives (SA National Space Agency)
• Data Commons
• Data Sets (GCRO)
• Data Sets (University of Stellenbosch)
• EBSCO Free Databases
• Free Social Science Data Sources & Statistical Methods
• Global Health Observatory (WHO)
• National Policy Data Observatory Analytics & Modelling Platform
• Open Access Data (Wits)
• Open Data CERN
• Open Data South Africa Toolkit
• Portal of Public Use Datasets on Sub-Saharan Africa
• Research Data (HSRC South Africa)
• Text and data mining (TDM) – Machine-ready articles to support your R&D’s digital future
• The Research Process: Datasets (National University Library)
• SA’s Development Indicators Dashboard (CSIR)
• UCI Machine Learning Repository
• Your Gateway to NASA
• 10 Great Places to Find Free Data Sets for your next project
• 32 Best Free Datasets for Projects (2026)
• 50+ Free Datasets for Data Science Projects in 2026