The British Universities Film & Video Council host and curate nine online databases of film, television and radio content dating from 1896 onwards. The Council have now provided a federated search to the more than 13 million records in these databases. It is also possible to search within one collection rather than across them all. Not all collections make material openly available.

Collections include:

Following the recent deadly E. coli outbreaks in Europe, researchers have released the first complete map of the genome and plasmids. The data set is being released under a public domain licence and has a DOI to make it easier to cite.

The World Bank collects a lot of data and now they want to give it away. The Bank's Open Data initiative provides users with access to data, including more than 7,000 indicators from World Bank data sets. The Data Catalog lists available datasets, such as databases, pre-formatted tables and reports. Each listing includes a description of the data set and a direct link.

What are the challenges in supporting the research life cycle today? Universities UK tried to answer this question with a one-day conference that examined the strategic role technologies can play in managing research and research data. The future of research?

The British Universities Film & Video Council host and curate nine online databases of film, television and radio content dating from 1896 onwards. The Council have now provided a federated search to the more than 13 million records in these databases. It is also possible to search within one collection rather than across them all. Not all collections make material openly available.

Collections include:

The World Bank collects a lot of data and now they want to give it away. The Bank's Open Data initiative provides users with access to data, including more than 7,000 indicators from World Bank data sets. The Data Catalog lists available datasets, such as databases, pre-formatted tables and reports. Each listing includes a description of the data set and a direct link.

What are the challenges in supporting the research life cycle today? Universities UK tried to answer this question with a one-day conference that examined the strategic role technologies can play in managing research and research data. The future of research?

'Linked data' is a term for technologies and standards that make data available online easy to combine or 'mash up'. If you have ever wondered what data is out there to be used in this way, have a look at this diagram - it should link you directly to the databases listed on the image map. Find out more about linked data and open data here.

What will research will be like in the coming decades? The British Library has mounted an exhibition on this topic at Growing Knowledge: The Evolution of Research. Interviews with researchers from a range of disciplines explore how research has changed. In Projects, visitors can see examples of collaborative digital projects that push the boundaries of research. The Tools area brings together online tools for writing, collaborating, staying organised, that make the research process much easier.

Following the recent deadly E. coli outbreaks in Europe, researchers have released the first complete map of the genome and plasmids. The data set is being released under a public domain licence and has a DOI to make it easier to cite.