The European Science Foundation (ESF) released a report this week which aims to accelerate the adoption of open access to research articles in the biomedical sciences. The briefing emphasises the "moral imperative" (ESF 2012) of open access to maximise the value of biomedical research.

In the US, 2.5 petabytes of data are stored annually just for mammograms.

The volume of earth-observation data from the European Space Agency's satellites passed three petabytes in 2007. The projection for 2020? A seven-fold rise.

Knowledge Exchange's A Surfboard for Riding the Wave report calls for a collaborative data infrastructure to enable researchers to use, re-use and exploit research data to benefit scientific research, and society more generally.