Use/Publication of Abstracts That Accompany Journal Articles

Dear Listers:

I would appreciate your advice on answering these questions,

recently raised by a faculty member:

"I am creating a bibliography of articles on a topic.
My 
bibliography will be published as a journal article or
technical 
report.

    -do I need to get permission of the publisher to include
the 
abstract that appears in the cited article, or does my use
of 
those abstracts fall under fair use? (small portions of the

original publication)

    -If [I] obtain the abstract from a database like PubMed,
which 
is not itself copyrighted and is in the public domain, does
that 
affect my use?

Is there a citation or source that I can refer to for 
substantiating this?"

Thanks in advance for your expert opinions and
interpretations!

Karen S. Tschanz,  M.L.S., M.B.A., M.S.O.D.
Asst. Prof./Chair, Content Management
Robert B. Greenblatt, M.D., Library, AB-241
Medical College of Georgia
Augusta, GA 30912
E-mail: ktschanzmail.mcg.edu