The Electronic Records Committee (ERC) identified electronic publications as one area that required further study. As such, the Electronic Publications Subcommittee was established. The Subcommittee met three times (minutes attached) between January 1999 and April 1999.

The charge to the Electronic Publications Subcommittee of the ERC was to meet the following objectives:

1. Create guidelines for the creation of electronic publications.

2. Advocate a system for dealing with electronic publications that duplicates the functions of the existing system for hard-copy publications. (This system should to include clear delineation of custody for electronic publications, i.e. who is responsible for them at which point in time.)

3. Create guidelines for the preservation of electronic publications.

4. Advocate changes in ORC 149.11 to accommodate the above.

The Electronic Publications Subcommittee recommends the following to the Electronic Records Committee:

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The ERC should adopt the following definition of an electronic publication:

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