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

Ross Singer rxs at talisplatform.com
Tue Aug 17 15:08:49 UTC 2010


On Tue, Aug 17, 2010 at 10:55 AM, Thomas Krichel <krichel at openlib.org>wrote:

>
>   Well they should cancell their subscriptions....
>

Yes, no doubt that would be both politically savvy on the part of the
library AND solve this problem.

>
>  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.
>

Do bibliographies generally include abstracts?

-Ross.
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