DM/KD in scholarly/academic databases

[GECugno at aol.com]

Hello!
    i am working on a paper and have found a ton of infromation on data 
mining (DM) and knowledge discovery (KD). i am familiar with hubat.com and 
the SPARKLE algorithm used to create directories of information, Fayyad's 
work, Pilot & ACM's publications.         
   What i am looking for is information on information retrieval systems and 
the use of data mining for academic/scholarly databases.  i am very 
interested in implications of the predictive learning component to 
information retrieval (the limitations and benefits).  are any of you doing 
anything with DM or KD that isnt used for business, marketing or scientific 
dbs? 
    
Thanks,
Gail