From the Announcement:

From 8 February 2010 the new open source ‘Research Information Centre’ (RIC) Framework v1.0 is available to download for free – http://ric.codeplex.com

The RIC represents an entirely new way of conducting research by providing an online environment in which to navigate the unprecedented collection of digital information available to 21st century researchers. The RIC aims to maximise web technology to improve both flexibility and knowledge sharing for researchers, wherever they are in the world.

The British Library and Microsoft Research have worked in partnership to design and develop a ‘virtual research environment’ that will provide a single easy-to-use interface enabling research teams to work collaboratively. The RIC will provide an environment in which users can create, share, discuss, manage, find and track articles, references, bookmarks, funding proposals, presentations and all the other digital information related to their research.

“The RIC has amazing potential,” said Richard Boulderstone, Director of E-Strategy & Information Systems at the British Library. “Together with Microsoft and a selection of researcher-focussed development partners, we are building on the RIC research lifecycle framework to create a unique environment for biomedical research collaboration in the 21st Century.”

Built using the Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 Platform, the binaries and source code are being made publicly available to encourage experimentation and use amongst the scientific community to develop the RIC’s foundation templates into an application that will offer support at every stage of the research life-cycle. The British Library is developing a RIC template that will incorporate a whole range of intuitive and customisable tools of relevance to biomedical research.

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Source: British Library

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