[open-bibliography] comprehensive bibliographic database of "open" resources?

Tue Aug 17 14:55:49 UTC 2010

  Ross Singer writes

> It's interesting that you attack libraries for not doing anything; I think
> they would be more than happy to be given reasonable suggestions.

  Well they should cancell their subscriptions.... 

>  Actually, libraries generally blame *academics* for the sorry state
> of affairs in this arena: they absolutely refuse to care about the
> license agreements they sign off on to their intellectual output.
> That being said, there are no rights on the metadata itself.

  ??? 

  An abstract is a piece of metadata copyrightable, afaik. If the
  publisher holds the copyright on the abstract, you can't use the
  abstract without their consent.

  Cheers,

  Thomas Krichel                    http://openlib.org/home/krichel
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