I publish a news-letter electronically, and rather than taking the time to ask around for many permissions for reprint rights, I summarize in my own words the items of interest (or sometimes I'll phone a specialist in that area and quote *their* impromptu summary), and then cite the source if readers want the original. Also, at least here in the States, there's a "fair use" law which says that brief selected quotes may be reproduced without permission (to facilitate news journalism), so that helps my summarizing. Yes, it would be easier to scan a lot of stuff from commercial sources and then just put it online, but that can lead to problems. There is a weekly newspaper I follow which had a series of articles of particular interest, and I was thinking of scanning them and putting them online. I happenned to be talking to the newspaper publisher about another matter and he mentioned that they were going to be gathering that series of articles together to be published as a book. I am so glad I didn't pre-empt him with my scanned version, else there'd have been a real problem! -- Roger Burns [log in to unmask] Publisher/Editor, CFS-NEWS Chronic Fatigue Syndrome Electronic Newsletter on LISTSERV at NIHLIST.BITNET or LIST.NIH.GOV