Would paraphrasing the contents of a scientific journal be infringement?

[alpinewarrior]

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The idea is to create a database/website of all scientific research relevant to a few topic areas. Many scientific journals require paid subscriptions to access the full texts of studies, so the idea was to write detailed paraphrasing and commentary for the various studies -- as they are collected -- so as to provide the users of the site with a near-equivalent of having the full text of the study.

It would essentially be as if a person emailed their scientist friend, asking him for info on certain studies, and the scientist wrote back with info + commentary on the studies. Given that the scientists is very familiar with the research, the info in the email will be very detailed, and the person would essentially have the same information as if they had a copy of the fully study. However, even though it contained all the same information, it would still be in the scientist friend's own words.


For example, the paraphrasing in our (writers for this database project) own words might go something like this:

Methodology Used:

Overall, the methodology of the researchers was fairly sound. The researchers controlled for soil quality by pre-mixing a single batch, and then used this for the various trial groups. The soil was a 5:10:2 ratio of XXX, YYY, ZZZ, respectively, and was mixed using blah-blah-blah method.This way, there was no difference between the soil used among all the trials. Sunlight exposure was carefully controlled, by ensuring that the angle of lenses for each of the different sample groups, exactly matched the angle of the source of light. Water supply was controlled for by the use of a central regulating pump mechanism combined with a computer-controlled dispersal system which ensured even and consistent delivery to all of the different trials.

The above was just a made up example, but can be seen, it would contain all of the relevant details of the study -- just from a 3rd person perspective.



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Would doing this for 100s of different studies lead to any potential problems?


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