The British Library has announced that the UK has made its first major independent contribution of data to the WorldWideScience Alliance project (www.worldwidescience.org) with the upload of the Environment Research Funders' Forum (ERFF) Research Database. The database holds information on some 20,000 publicly funded environmental research projects and programmes that have been funded by ERFF's member organisations since 2005.
Although data is being continually added to the ERFF's collections, anyone using WorldWideScience.org will be able to access information through the federated search function.
WorldWideScience, developed and maintained by the US Department of Energy, counts the British Library as one of its alliance members. The global science gateway seeks to offer researchers the ability to search over 50 national databases simultaneously, providing anyone interested in science with free access to quality, authoritative information on the latest in scientific research. Chaired by Richard Boulderstone, Director of E-Strategy and Information Systems at the British Library, the project currently makes available over 357 million pages of scientific information covering energy, medicine, agriculture and the environment. It continues to seek new partners to expand the resource and help stimulate revolutionary advances in science.
The ERFF aims to maximise the coherence and effectiveness of environmental research in the UK by bringing together 19 public sector funders (government departments, agencies and the devolved administrations). It seeks to provide long term strategic direction for environmental research in the UK and the underpinning evidence on which this depends.
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