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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.

Open Science Summit, which took place in July at Berkeley, is a good example of how "digital scholarship", "e-science" and "open science" and "scholarly communications" are terms from the same vocabulary we are creating to talk about the changes in academia, knowledge transfer, innovation, etc.

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!

STAR METRICS is a federal and university partnership which is developing an empirical framework to measure the outcomes of science investments and demonstrate the benefits of scientific investments to the public. The project is led by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the auspices of Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP).

What was highly significant, however, was the pace of discussion and analysis, carried out in real time on blogs and a wiki that had been quickly set up for the purpose of collectively analyzing the paper. This kind of collaboration has emerged only in recent years in the math and computer science communities. In the past, intense discussions like the one that surrounded the proof of the Poincaré conjecture were carried about via private e-mail and distribution lists as well as in the pages of traditional paper-based science journals.

Science-Metrix is an independent research evaluation firm specializing in the assessment of science and technology (S&T) organizations and activities. Our services enable evidence-based decision-making, strategic planning, and outcome assessments.

Data-intensive science and the marriage of science and IT is happening in astronomy, high-energy physics and genomics. The article provides successful examples of eScience and the challenges hindering the spread of eScience (e.g. lack of tools, database a

The Growth of 'Citizen Science' "Big data" is changing the sciences as well as the humanities (The Chronicle, June 4). We asked three experts to comment on the phenomenon. Here are their responses:

A new way to define "digital scholarship" as a family of digital forms of scholarly communication (rather than e-science or e-social science, etc.)

Global Reset Series / by John Wilbanks / January 28, 2011The scientific paper has long been the unit of scientific knowledge. Now, with print media lapsing into obsolescence, the internet is poised to transform science publishing and science itself.

Blei-Gerrish and other topic modelling methods can open up the door to new escience advances based on large-scale text copora

Abstract: "Traditionally, scholarly impact and visibility have been measured by counting publications and citations in the scholarly literature. However, increasingly scholars are also visible on the Web, establishing presences in a growing variety of social ecosystems. But how wide and established is this presence, and how do measures of social Web impact relate to their more traditional counterparts? To answer this, we sampled 57 presenters from the 2010 Leiden STI Conference, gathering publication and citations counts as well as data from the presenters' Web "footprints." We found Web presence widespread and diverse: 84% of scholars had homepages, 70% were on LinkedIn, 23% had public Google Scholar profiles, and 16% were on Twitter. For sampled scholars' publications, social reference manager bookmarks were compared to Scopus and Web of Science citations; we found that Mendeley covers more than 80% of sampled articles, and that Mendeley bookmarks are significantly correlated (r=.45) to Scopus citation counts. " "Accepted to 17th International Conference on Science and Technology Indicators, Montreal, Canada, 5-8 Sept. 2012."

In an edited excerpt from his new book, Too Big to Know, David Weinberger explains how the massive amounts of data necessary to deal with complex phenomena exceed any single brain's ability to grasp, yet networked science rolls on.

Bibliometric methods can be used to assess many types of impact. See the example from Science-Metrics and the Univeristy of Leiden Book of Abstracts.

This Report has attempted to draw together and synthesise evidence and opinion from a wide range of sources. Examples of data intensive science at extremes of scale and complexity which enable forecasting and predictive assertions, have been described tog

How can Internet benefit science? Is online science a myth? Examples of tools and technologies, "Science is an example par excellence of creative collaboration, yet scientific collaboration still takes place mainly via face-to-face meetings. With the exce

The OSG/CMU Scientific Software Ecosystem Workshop was held February 16 & 17, 2010 in Los Angeles, supported by the National Science Foundation through grant #0943168. It was an invitation workshop on scientific software development ecosystems, organized by the SciSoft research team at CMU (Jim Herbsleb and James Howison) and the Open Science Grid, hosted by LIGO at CalTech (special thanks to Kent Blackburn). The purpose of the workshop was to learn from each other in order to improve how we produce, share and sustain scientific software in our various fields and to develop positions regarding possible scientific research funding agency policies on software practices.

Semantic Web Applications and Tools for Life Sciences Hackathon

"The information science field of webometrics is "the study of the quantitative aspects of the construction and use of information resources, structures and technologies on the web drawing on bibliometric and informetric approaches" [1] or, more generally, "the study of web-based content with primarily quantitative methods for social science research goals using techniques that are not specific to one field of study"[2]."

from the abstract: "assessing the influence of spatial proximity between scientists is crucial to promote efficient collaboration strategies and, ultimately, to improve the quality of science. Here we present a systematic analysis of citation and collaboration streams between cities and countries. By assigning papers to the geographic locations of their authors' affiliations, we construct weighted networks of citations and collaborations. The citation flows as well as the collaboration strengths between cities decrease with the distance between them and follow gravity laws with exponents close to 1. Moreover, for a given number of authors, the diversity of affiliations increases the number of citations, especially when many countries are represented. In addition, the total research impact of a country grows linearly with the amount of national funding for research & development. However, the average impact reveals a peculiar threshold effect: the scientific output of a country may reach an impact larger than the world average only if the country invests more than 120,000 US $ per researcher annually. Our results reveal the overall structure of scientific research by showing the correlation between collaboration, citation, geography and funding, and could provide valuable inputs in shaping the future science policies."