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Truly open-source science

• The future of the paper log book looks dim. Cameron Neylon discusses the alternative: Open Notebook science.

A web of human relationships

• Viewing e-Research projects as a web of human relationships gives Dimitriana Spencer special insight into the way these projects work.

News in brief

• Taverna success at ISMB, Award for Taverna-caBIG, NCeSS call for papers, Summer of code, New software and Have your say!

UK e-Researchers aid efforts to understand climate change

• The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change benefits from experience gained by an OMII-UK project.

Linking up the ancients

• Textual material from Ancient Greece and Rome is being made easily available by OGSA-DAI.

New development for GridSAM

• The GridSAM project achieves a great leap forward thanks to a collaboration between OMII-UK, ICT and Imperial College London.

OGSA-DAI based data integration projects at AIST

• AIST puts OGSA-DAI to use in a number of projects.

Collaborative visualisation with RAVE

• Got data but can't visualise it? Try RAVE, the new visualisation software from OMII-UK.

Boost for e-Social Science (and obesity) with launch of new NCeSS nodes

• June Finch gives us a tour of the new NCeSS research projects, which will soon be aiding research in subjects such as obesity and social science data management.

myExperiment supports Microsoft Trident

• New functionality is added to Taverna to help oceanography research.

How the UK established a thriving e-Science community

• We hear from Malcolm Atkinson, Paul Watson, John Brooke and Anne Trefethen about the success of the UK e-Science Programme and the regional e-Science centres.