UK law is not very helpful on this. If you re-key the table of contents
laboriously, you are likely to be infringing the publisher's database
right, and if you scan in the table of contents so it looks and feels like
the original, you are definitely infringing the publisher's copyright as
well as its database right.
Publishers' attitudes vary, but some are agressive about your proposed
practice, arguing that it is "an invitation to infringe" by drawing
attention to the users and in effect encouraging them to then make copies
of individual articles.
Individual bibliographic citations are OK to copy, but collections, such as
a TOC, are not.
My advice would be to select just those particular items that are likely to
be of interest to patrons, and announce them as individual bibliographic
citations. Either that, or approach publishers for permission.
Professor Charles Oppenheim
Dept of Information and Library Studies
Loughborough University
Loughborough
Leics LE11 3TU
01509-223065
Fax 01509-223053
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