University of Massachusetts (University of Massachusetts Amherst Libraries)

The University of Massachusetts, Amherst will partner with the Inter-University Consortium for Political and Social Research, and the Centers for Nanotechnology and Society at Arizona State University and at the University of California, Santa Barbara in a planning project to explore future integration of digital services for researchers studying ethical, legal, and social implications associated with the development of nanotechnology and other emerging technologies. Through facilitated organizational meetings and other activities, the project team will seek community consensus on top needs. Topics to be discussed include expansion of the concept of subject repositories to other services such as data curation, and possible new types of discovery and collaboration tools.