Committees and Commissions Working Group on Electronic Publishing The “Electronic Publishing” working group was established by the Union of the German Academies of Sciences and Humanities to advise the Executive Committee on all matters of electronic and digital publishing that are relevant to projects in the Academies' Programme and to suggest common standards. Additional concerns include copyright issues, conflicts with the publishing industry, software monopolies, the threat of data loss posed by obsolete and inaccessible storage media, the challenge of identifying search engines suitable for searching vast amounts of text, the development of additional data storage facilities to safeguard future accessibility, and the creation of new technologies for electronic publishing. Once every year, the Working Group on Electronic Publishing organises a three-day-workshop to inform the staff in the scientific projects about the latest developments in the field of electronic publishing. Chairman: Prof. Dr. Gerhard Lauer Göttingen Academy of Sciences an Humanities Deputy: Prof. Dr. Gerald Spindler Göttingen Academy of Sciences and Humanities representative of the Union of German Academies of Sciences of copyright issues Members: Prof. Dr. Kurt Gärtner Academy of Sciences and Literature, Mainz Dr. Michael Kaasch German Academy of Natural Scientist, Leopoldina PD Dr. Ingo Kottsieper Göttingen Academy of Sciences and Humanities Dr. Ulrich Marder North Rhine-Westphalian Academy of Sciences, Humanities and the Arts Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Raible Heidelberg Academy of Sciences and Humanities Prof. Dr. Hannes Siegrist Saxonian Academy of Sciences in Leipzig Dr. Markus Wesche Bavarian Academy of Sciences and Humanities Ralf Wolz Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities		Office Geschwister-Scholl-Straße 2 55131 Mainz / Germany Tel.: +49 - 61 31/21 85 28-0 Fax: +49 - 61 31/21 85 28-11 info@akademienunion.de Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities Göttingen Academy of Sciences Bavarian Academy of Sciences and Humanities Saxonian Academy of Sciences in Leipzig Heidelberg Academy of Sciences and Humanities Academy of Sciences and Literature, Mainz North Rhine-Westphalian Academy of Sciences, Humanities and the Arts Academy of Sciences and Humanities in Hamburg