In Print The Institute of Physics Publishing has announced the publication of on-line multimedia research papers in the journal Nanotechnology . The site provides access to the technical proposal, project description, personnel and related material as well as the report itself. The guidelines address a number of issues, such as cataloging at the collection or item level, leaving the eventual decision to the local institution but providing guidance such as example records based on MARC formats. The guidelines also call for post-cataloging maintenance procedures to update URLs and changes to content of remote resources. Further information on the program and related issues are available at the conference's web site.
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The Second IEEE Metadata Conference will be held in Silver Spring, Maryland, from September 16 to September 17, 1997. Scholarly Publishing and Communication in the Electronic Environment will be held at the University of Toronto at Scarborough, Canada, on September 26-27, 1997. The two-day conference proposes to address a series of issues associated with ethics in the Information Age. These include notions of privacy, access, and ownership. The final program will be developed after August 1, 1997.