On Tue, Sep 08, 1998, Beverly Bowles <bbowles[_at_]hshsl.umaryland.edu> wrote:
>
> An organization wants to make a CD-ROM containing their guidelines.
> They want to attach a bibliography to the guidelines. They want the
> user to be able to click on a citation and get the abstract to the
> article. NOT the entire article.
>
> Is this going against copyright? The abstract of the article will be
> gotten from medline.
The best idea is to check Medline's Permissions policy. It is at http://www.ncbi.nlm.gov/PubMed/restrictions.html
It clearly states that some material (e.g., abstracts) is from the original copyrighted publication and therefore redistribution (outside personal use) is subject to copyright restrictions. A limited number of citations and MeSH terms can be redistributed without permission (presumably because these are created by the government and are in the public domain).
Marion Harrell
PsycINFO
<mharrell[_at_]apa.org>
Received on Thu Sep 10 1998 - 13:43:35 GMT
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