Re: Table of contents and copyright Martha Parsons 27 Sep 1996 18:30 UTC
Please post responses to the list, or Susan, could you summarize responses sent to you directly? I'm in a small special library also, and am very interested in the issue of table of contents routing and possibly scanning into e-mail. Thanks. Martha Parsons WSU/CE Energy Program Library parsons@halcyon.com ------------------------------------- Susan Harman wrote: >I'm asking for help from the good people of Autocat and Serialst after >what seems like a long time lost in the archives and logs of both lists. >I could swear I saw something on one of these about scanning tables of >contents into an in-house e-mail system and/or copyright of tables of >contents. Perhaps some kind soul can point me in the right direction. > >Our library currently has an ordinary, fairly low-tech TOC routing service >for our inhouse staff. Our online check in system prompts us when we >check in a journal someone has asked for TOC for, we photocopy it, and >deliver it. Last year we got e-mail software on our building-wide >network. We're working on next year's budget and the library director >would like to include money for a scanner. This way we could scan the TOC >into the e-mail system and save a lot of time. With this option, the TOCs >would just go to those inhouse staff who requested the title, or possibly >to the whole staff. > >Just recently we created a fledgling home page on the Internet and the >powers that be want to have more 'stuff' on it so our members will see >what a fabulously wonderful service the home page is. (We are a >non-profit association.) The library director was thinking about perhaps >putting the scanned TOCs on the home page too, but we are concerned about >copyright issues. > >Obviously there are commerical TOC services and I'm sure some of them at >least are online now. We don't subscribe to any of them because of the >expense involved. We also wondered if copyright issues were different >if we had the TOCs on a section of the home page that only our members >could access, as opposed to just 'out there' where anyone could call up >our URL and find them. > >I seem to recall some discussion on one of the lists as to whether TOCs >were under copyright in the same way that articles are, etc. I've >starting surfing around some of the copyright web resources, but have not >winnowed things down yet. > >I'd appreciate responses from the list--even if this question seems like a >'no brainer'. Please send directly to me, unless the rest of the list has >a burning desire for the answers. Thanks. > >Susan Harman >Medical & Chirurgical Faculty Library >techserv@access.digex.net > >