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Agenda for Developing E-Science in Research Libraries: ARL Joint Task Force on Library Support for E-Science Final Report & Recommendations, Nov. 2007 [PDF]

Overview

The UK National e-Science Centre defines e-Science as "the large scale science that will increasingly be carried out through distributed global collaborations enabled by the Internet. Typically, a feature of such collaborative scientific enterprises is that they will require access to very large data collections, very large scale computing resources and high performance visualization back to the individual user scientists." E-science is defined broadly to include all of the national and physical sciences, related applied and technological disciplines, as well as biomedicine and social sciences sharing research approaches with the natural sciences.

Neil Rambo, University of Washington, is serving as Visiting Program Officer to advance the ARL E-science agenda.