Launching on the 14 September, the UK will make its first major independent contribution of research data to the project 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.
Www.worldwidescience.org offers researchers the ability to search over 50 national databases simultaneously, providing anyone interested in science with free access to quality, authoritative information on cutting edge scientific research.
Although data is being continually added to the ERFF's collections, through the federated search function, anyone using WorldWideScience.org will be able to access the most up to date information from the UK's largest public sector funders of environmental science.
Developed by the Office of Scientific and Technical Information (OSTI) in the US, and 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, but continues to seek new partners to expand the resource and help stimulate revolutionary advances in science.
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