Many librarians are looking to re-invent their rolesand their profession in the era of Google. Accordingly, the launch of the Journal of eScience Librarianship is timely.

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.

There is a newly released Australian Government research workforce report, Research skills for an innovative future, to cover the decade to 2020 and beyond. Prime Minister Julia Gillard, in introducing the report describes,

Thinking of submitting a proposal to the $47m National eResearch Collaboration Tools and Resources (NecTAR) project?

Thinking of submitting a proposal to the $47m National eResearch Collaboration Tools and Resources (NecTAR) project? If so, have a look at the video on submitting your proposal.

The program for eResearch Australasia 2011: eXtreme eResearch is now available. The main part of the conference runs from 6-8 November, in Melbourne, and is followed by two days of workshops and meetings on the 9th and 10th.

What skills do you need to support researchers doing eResearch? Computer-based technical skills? Certainly.

The UK's eUptake project examined why researchers do or do not use advanced ICT and has compiled recommendations to increase use. The report, e-Research Community Engagement Findings, lists some of the reasons researchers are timid about eResearch. The report begins:

Most people are probably wedded to their favourite browsers - whether IE, Firefox, Opera or Safari. As an incentive to switch to Google's Chrome browser, Google have launched CloudSave, which allows users to save files from Google Docs, Amazon Cloud Drive, Dropbox, Facebook, Picasa, and many other programs and applications. CloudSave doesn't work with many browsers, so anyone wanting to take advantage of the technology will have to install Chrome.

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.