RE: Use/Publication of Abstracts That Accompany Journal Articles

["Ian.Russell" <ian.russell@cytherean.co.uk>]

I can at least clear up the second point.  From the PMC website:

"Copyright to all material deposited in PMC remains with the 
publisher or individual authors, whichever is applicable. PMC is 
simply an archive and does not claim copyright on any material in 
the archive."

Ian

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-liblicense-l@lists.yale.edu [mailto:owner-liblicense-
> l@lists.yale.edu] On Behalf Of Karen Tschanz
> Sent: 03 May 2008 00:44
> To: liblicense-l@lists.yale.edu
> Subject: Use/Publication of Abstracts That Accompany Journal Articles
>
> Dear Listers:
>
> I would appreciate your advice on answering these questions,
> recently raised by a faculty member:
>
> "I am creating a bibliography of articles on a topic. My
> bibliography will be published as a journal article or technical
> report.
>
>     -do I need to get permission of the publisher to include the
> abstract that appears in the cited article, or does my use of
> those abstracts fall under fair use? (small portions of the
> original publication)
>
>     -If [I] obtain the abstract from a database like PubMed, which
> is not itself copyrighted and is in the public domain, does that
> affect my use?
>
> Is there a citation or source that I can refer to for
> substantiating this?"
>
> Thanks in advance for your expert opinions and interpretations!
>
> Karen S. Tschanz,  M.L.S., M.B.A., M.S.O.D.
> Asst. Prof./Chair, Content Management
> Robert B. Greenblatt, M.D., Library, AB-241
> Medical College of Georgia
> Augusta, GA 30912
> E-mail: ktschanz@mail.mcg.edu