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e-Science is about global collaboration in key areas of science, and the next generation of computational infrastructure that will enable it. These two volumes contain selected papers from the UK e-Science All Hands Meeting, which was held in Oxford, UK, in December 2009. This meeting has become the annual event where computational scientists and technologists come together to share, discuss and advance the exciting research that has grown out of the UK e-Science Programme.

"In recent years, publishers, librarians and academics have seized the opportunities offered by the electronic publication of scholarly journals. Despite the popularity of e-journals, however, content continues to be published, acquired and used in physical printed form. In the UK, we are still some way from a wholly electronic journal environment. This study is prompted by a concern from publishers and librarians that the retention of both printed and e-journal formats adds unnecessary costs throughout the supply chain from publisher to library to user. In view of the many advantages of electronic journals, this report sets out to understand the barriers to a move to e-only provision of scholarly journals in the UK, and to investigate what various players within the scholarly communications system could do in order to encourage such a move."

The six month review will look at what the UK can learn from US rules on the use of copyright material without the rights holder's permission.

This collaborative research project will be composed of two separate, but linked, analyses. It will identify and examine information-related support services throughout the lifecycle of the research process. The project's goal is to discover researchers' needs and desires in a small sample of UK and US universities and to identify the significant patterns, intersections, gaps and issues from researchers' points of view, whatever the source of such services. This study will document the nature and scope of research support services, providing examples of good practice, recommending areas where new practice might emerge, and identifying possible areas and scope for collaboration within and between institutions

Ball, A.., 2012. Review of Data Management Lifecycle Models. Research Report. Bath, UK: University of Bath

Abstrat: "Higher education institutions face a number of opportunities and challenges as the result of the digital revolution. The institutions perform a number of scholarship functions which can be affected by new technologies, and the desire is to retain these functions where appropriate, whilst the form they take may change. Much of the reaction to technological change comes from those with a vested interest in either wholesale change or maintaining the status quo. Taking the resilience metaphor from ecology, the authors propose a framework for analysing an institution's ability to adapt to digital challenges. This framework is examined at two institutions (the UK Open University and Canada's Athabasca University) using two current digital challenges, namely Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) and Open Access publishing."

Abstract: "UK public policy makers have a growing interest in collaborative research, where academics work with public, private or third sector partners on a joint project which supports the partner's aims. This paper reports on the findings of five case studies, looking at how information is sourced, managed, used and shared within collaborative research projects. It finds that researchers within collaborative projects have similar information management issues as are known to exist within academia more broadly, but that the specific conditions which govern research collaborations mean that interventions to improve or support information management must be carefully tailored."

A review of the Open Educational Resources (OER) movement, with emphasis on UK initiatives

THe report (UK) everyone in the OA community is talking about - proposes OA to all research outputs from publicly funded research

The ESRC National Centre for e-Social Science (NCeSS) aims to develop and promote the use of e-science to benefit social science research. The research programs (and grants) are enormous!

An evaluation of research support services in four UK institutions discusses support for research dissemination, data curation and intellectual property concerns.

paper examines costs and benefits of alternative scholarly publishing strategies in the UK, with five responding articles in the same journals issue

A survey of researchers in UK and European research institutions

Institutional Data Management Blueprint

With increased pressure on universities and researchers to preserve research data for re-use in the future, JISC's Research Integrity Conference considered the role of universities in safeguarding research integrity and looked into the real issues being faced by universities from a strategic and technical perspective