# Advisory Committee for Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences; Notice of Meeting
In accordance with the Federal Advisory Committee Act (Pub. L. 92-463, as amended), the National Science Foundation announces the following meeting:
*Name:* Advisory Committee for Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (1171), NSF.
*Date/Time:* September 21, 2001; 8:30 a.m.-5 p.m.
*Place:* National Science Foundation, Room 970, 4201 Wilson Blvd., Arlington, VA.
*Type of Meeting:* Open (Members of the public who wish to attend should arrange access ahead of time with the contact person listed below).
*Contact Person:* Dr. Stuart Plattner, Program Director; Division of Behavioral and Cognitive Sciences, NSF, Suite 995; 4201 Wilson Blvd., Arlington, VA 22230. Telephone: (703) 292-8740.
*Minutes:* May be obtained from the contact person listed above.
*Purpose of Meeting:* To provide advice and recommendations to the National Science Foundation on issues related to the use of human subjects in social and behavioral research.
**Agenda**
Discussions addressing the following topics:
Foreign Institutional Review Boards (IRBs)
Training (for principal investigators, research personnel, IRBs)
Consent (forms, signing, group/individual, students as research subjects)
Ethnography/oral history; “ethical proofreading”
Confidentiality/privacy
Secondary subjects/secondary data; linking data
Expanding the “exempt” category
Deception
Subpart “D” of the Common Rule
Research on the World Wide Web
Data archiving
Dated: September 4, 2001.
Susanne Bolton,
Committee Management Officer.