Out in the open: Some scientists sharing results / Boston Globe, 21 August 2008
http://digbig.com/4xphd
"Barry Canton, a 28-year-old biological engineer at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, has posted raw scientific data, his thesis proposal, and original research ideas on an online website for all to see."

Citation Brief: Science in: Australia, 2003-07 / sciencewatch.com, 24 August 2008
http://sciencewatch.com/dr/sci/08/aug24-08_1/
"Australia’s world share of science and social-science papers over the last five years, expressed as a percentage of papers in each of 22 fields in the Thomson Reuters database. Also, Australia’s relative citation impact compared to the world average in each field, in percentage terms."

Research Sharing Gets New Tools and Goes Trendy
Information Today, 4 September 2008
http://newsbreaks.infotoday.com/nbReader.asp?ArticleId=50584
Paula J. Hane
"Last fall I wrote about several social networking/collaboration projects from Elsevier—2collab and Scirus Topic Pages (http://newsbreaks.infotoday.com/nbReader.asp?ArticleId=40102). The initiatives were designed to support academic library communities and their researchers with advanced "Research 2.0" tools. The resources created social spaces in which researchers could work together. These tools offer platforms for shared knowledge to be leveraged for information discovery and evaluation. Since then, I’ve seen greatly increased activity in this space..."

UK continues to deliver world class return on R&D investment / Public Technology, 6 Aug 2008
http://www.publictechnology.net/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=16908
"The UK has increased its share of published research in the world's most influential scientific journals and offers the best return globally for R&D investment, a report published by the Department for Innovation, Universities and Skills (DIUS) has found. The study provides an annual benchmark for the Government and others to assess how the UK is performing alongside the 25 world leading research economies - including the G8 nations, India and China."

Large Scientific facilities
Postnote, July 2008, Number 313
Parliamentary Office of Science and Technology
PDF - http://www.parliament.uk/documents/upload/postpn313.pdf
"Since 2000, the government has allocated over £800m to constructing ten new large scientific facilities, with £270m earmarked for five future projects.1 These
facilities are planned and operated over long timescales, often involving international collaboration, and have a significant economic impact. This POSTnote describes
the system used by the UK to plan new large scientific facilities. It gives examples of facilities both current and planned, highlighting relevant policy issues."

Forensic science: Secrets of the case against Crippen / The Observer, August 17 2008
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2008/aug/17/law.forensicscience?gusrc=rss&feed=uknews

"He was known as the people's pathologist, and made his name as a pioneering expert in some of the most gruesome murder cases in British history. Now the secrets of Britain's first forensic scientist - who helped convict Dr Crippen of his wife's murder and solve the Brides in the Bath killings - have been saved for the nation by the Wellcome Library."

Call to end animal pain-research / BBC, 14 August 2008

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/7561061.stm

"Using animals to research pain has "limited value" and should be replaced by newer technologies, argues a panel of medical experts from across England. Animal tests can only simulate some aspects of chronic pain and are too simplistic, their report says."

Research Publications Online: Too Much of A Good Thing? / National Science Foundation, 17 July 2008
http://www.nsf.gov/news/news_summ.jsp?cntn_id=111928&org=NSF&from=news
"The Internet gives scientists and researchers instant access to an astonishing number of academic journals. So what is the impact of having such a wealth of information at their fingertips? The answer, according to new research released today in the journal Science, is surprising--scholars are actually citing fewer papers in their own work, and the papers they do cite tend to be more recent publications. This trend may be limiting the creation of new ideas and theories."

Secret messages could be hidden in net phone calls
New Scientist, 2 June 2008
http://technology.newscientist.com/channel/tech/mg19826586.000-secret-messages-could-be-hidden-in-net-phone-calls.html?feedId=online-news_rss20
"THE next time your internet (VoIP) phone call sounds a bit fuzzy, it might not be your ISP that's to blame. Someone could be trying to squeeze a secret message between the packets of data carrying the caller's voice."
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Biologists are from Mars, chemists are from Venus? / Eurekalert.org, 30 April 2008
http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2008-04/uod-baf043008.php
“When scientists from different disciplines say 'We work together,' we want to know what that means,” says Steve Fifield, associate policy scientist at the University of Delaware.
Fifield, who is affiliated with the Delaware Education Research and Development Center at UD, is leading research to uncover how scientists from different disciplines form working relationships. The two-year project is funded by a $197,300 grant from the National Science Foundation's Innovation and Organizational Sciences program.
The findings will shed light on scientific collaboration--a process about which little is known, but much is expected."

Research ethics in developing countries /Parliamentary Office of Science and Technology, April 2008
PDF - http://www.parliament.uk/documents/upload/postpn304.pdf

British Crime Survey: options for extending the coverage to children and people living in communal establishments / Home Office - RDS, 15 May 2008
PDF - http://www.homeoffice.gov.uk/rds/pdfs08/horr06c.pdf
Research Report 06

Science Budget Allocations: Fourth Report of Session 2007–08: Volume I: Report, together with formal minutes / TSO, 30 April 2008
PDF - http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm200708/cmselect/cmdius/215/215.pdf
HC 215-I
Science Budget Allocations: Fourth Report of Session 2007–08: Volume II: Oral and Written Evidence / TSO, 30 April 2008
PDF - http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm200708/cmselect/cmdius/215/215ii.pdf
HC 215-II

Coming soon? / Guardian, 22 April 2008
http://education.guardian.co.uk/egweekly/story/0,,2275347,00.html?gusrc=rss&feed=society
"A medical research lab is planned for the heart of London. Is it safe to house a facility dealing with deadly diseases in a large urban population?"

Benefits of marijuana mimicked / Guardian, 28 April 2008
http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2008/apr/28/drugsandalcohol.medicalresearch?gusrc=rss&feed=society
"A way has been found to mimic marijuana's relief of pain and anxiety, which could lead to drugs giving the same medical effect without disorienting side effects or raising questions of legality."
Activation of the endocannabinoid system by organophosphorus nerve agents
Nature chemical biology, published online: 27 April 2008
http://www.nature.com/nchembio/journal/vaop/ncurrent/abs/nchembio.86.html

'Big brother' buildings offer less invasive security / NewScientist.com news service, 09 April 2008

URL http://technology.newscientist.com/channel/tech/dn13632-big-brother-buildings-offer-less-invasive-security.html?feedId=online-news_rss20
Tracking people's every move using buildings packed with motion sensors is more effective than CCTV, and less invasive to privacy, say researchers who tried the technique on their own colleagues.

Implementing “The Race to the Top” Lord Sainsbury’s Review of Government’s Science and Innovation Policies / DIUS, March 2008
PDF - http://www.dius.gov.uk/docs/home/SainsburyReview-v12.pdf

Government crime research slammed / BBC, 1 April 2008
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/7322324.stm
"The researchers, from King's College, London, say the flow of accurate information to the public is being "deliberately disrupted or withheld"."
Critical thinking about the uses of research / Centre for Crime and Justice Studies, March 2008
PDF - http://www.crimeandjustice.org.uk/opus557/Evidencebasedpolicyfinal.pdf
Tim Hope and Reece Walters

Official statistics, public policy and public trust
Journal of the Royal Statistical Society: Series A (Statistics in Society), Volume 171, Number 2, April 2008 , pp. 323-346(24)http://digbig.com/4wpceHolt, D. Tim
"The question of public confidence in official statistics has been central to government statistical policy for the last 10 years. This year the Statistics and Registration Service Act 2007 was passed. The paper suggests key characteristics of the new arrangements that will be needed if public confidence in the official statistics outputs is to be strengthened. It is argued that this will depend on public confidence in the statistical system as a whole rather than just the new Board. The organisational structure of the UK statistical system is described and this is linked to the issue of public confidence. Finally the wider questions of evidence-based policy and the use of statistics and statistical thinking throughout government are discussed."
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How Crime in the United States Is Measured / Congressional Research Service, 3 January 2008
PDF - http://www.fas.org/sgp/crs/misc/RL34309.pdf
Nathan James ; Logan Rishard Council