Referring to articles in a website

[Musivarius]

After being asked on numerous occasions for references I've put the ones I have on a few pages on my website.

How much can you you put on something like this? A brief search on the issue and this comes up, 'You may quote only limited portions of work. You may publish excerpts, not whole articles'. Is this correct? On a few occasions I've found a full article available for free as a PDF but then I find the same article being charged for access in another site.

I've contacted a few authors whose work is feely available on the internet if I can link the PDF of the whole article otherwise I just have either the abstract or I quote the particular section.

Any advice greatly appreciated!

[Vindex]

I think it would be safer for you to err on the side of caution.

Some works appear as PDFs which do not have the author's permission and can lead to all sorts of angst. Suitable experpts followed by the full reference should be sufficient to keep you out of copy right issues and give your web site users ample scope for their own secondary research.

[Musivarius]

Thanks, I thought it would be better to stick with that.

[Gunthamund Hasding]

Lawrence I would not link PDF's unless I really got that sorted out, you know I am following your website and I would like to have those papers but copyright goes first, link only if you have permission

[D B Campbell]

You could always link to JSTOR. Then those who have permission can download the PDF and those who don't can view the publication details and the front page (and read a summary as well, I think).