E-Research

EDUCAUSE Library Items for E-Research

Building a Cost-Effective Cloud Computing Campus Cyberinfrastructure for Education and Research

November 4, 2009 | A session at the EDUCAUSE 2009 Annual Conference

This talk will focus on the design of a university cloud computing system implemented at NC State. Operational data over the past five years will be presented, showing how the integration of teachi…

Building a Research IT Division from the Ground Up

November 5, 2009 | A session at the EDUCAUSE 2009 Annual Conference

The nature of the research enterprise is changing rapidly. Large-scale computing, storage, and collaboration needs are now common. We describe how we scoped and funded a central IT division focused…

Cloud Computing and New Research Services: A Case Study

November 4, 2009 | A session at the EDUCAUSE 2009 Annual Conference

Cloud computing has matured as a reliable service for research infrastructure. This case study describes how ARL and Ithaka used a low-cost and easily implemented SaaS in contrast to locally run da…

Global CyberBridges (GCB): A Model Global Collaboration Infrastructure for E-Science Between the United States and International Partners

July 20, 2009

Global CyberBridges fosters a multidisciplinary environment to produce a new generation of scientists and engineers capable of fully integrating cyberinfrastructure into their research, educa…

Guiding the E-Researcher

June 8, 2009

Today's tech-savvy students are accustomed to social interaction on the Internet, in immersive virtual environments, and over mobile devices. When they think about interacting with research,…

Evolution or revolution: The future of identity and access management for research

May 22, 2009

Identity and access management have become central issues for the future of the web following the unprecedented growth in user-generated content, collaboration and social activity. This year&…

E-Research and E-Scholarship: Enabling the Scholarly Communication of the Future

April 15, 2009 | A session at the EDUCAUSE Western Regional Conference 2009

We are all affected by fundamental changes occurring in the stewardship, storage, and transmission of an exponentially growing amount of information. What robust techniques, technologies, and softw…

Information Technologies for eScience: A Preliminary Report from the University of Washington

March 24, 2009

This ECAR research bulletin discusses the key findings of the first two phases of the University of Washington eScience conversations, including important trends related to the need for data mana…

E-Science at the University of Massachusetts

March 11, 2009 | A session at the NERCOMP Annual Conference 2009

What is e-science and how can libraries and librarians support it? The University of Massachusetts takes a proactive approach to support network-enabled research on its campuses. This session will …

A Comparative Study of International Approaches to Enabling the Sharing of Research Data

November 30, 2008

The current methods of storing research data are as diverse as the disciplines that generate them and are necessarily driven by the myriad ways in which researchers need to subsequently access an…