I shouldn't crack wise about books on open access priced exclusively for the library market, I suppose, but there you are. At least Lynch made his contribution available publicly--I caught the link to it over at if:book and even wrote a bit about it on cgbvb.

Notes

Speculative piece about computational approaches to scholarly literature, endangered by lack of cooperation, access, agreements

"It is important to realize that while researchers focusing specifically on computational manipulation of scholarly literatures are reporting great advances in their work, I think that the broad community of working scholars remains to be convinced of the critical future contributions of such technologies."

Thought experiment: Absent encumberances, "We would also see a move beyond federation and indexing to actual text mining and analysis, to the extraction of hypotheses and correlations that would help to drive ongoing scholarly inquiry."

Most likely scenario: locally-hosted corpora, upon which computation could be performed.

"As the scholarly literature moves to digital form, what is actually needed to move beyond a system that just replicates all of our assumptions that this literature is only read, and read only by human beings, one article at a time?" Answer both legal and technical.

Thoughts

I think it's worthwhile to push for the kind of legal and technical answers that Lynch advocates, but from my perspective, it's possible to accomplish much of what he's asserting on smaller scales, without necessarily running afoul of the legal departments. That may be in part because we run beneath the radar both as a discipline and as individuals.

As I wrote earlier, I see our work on CCCO to be part and parcel with what Lynch outlines in his thought experiment.

Not much else to add at this time.