Table of Contents:
  • Grand challenges and new roles for the twenty-first-century research library in an era of e-science / Richard E. Luce
  • E-science and research libraries : an agenda for action / Wendy Pradt Lougee
  • The challenges of e-science data set management and scholarly communication for domain sciences and engineering : a role for academic libraries and librarians / James L. Mullins
  • Changes in research libraries as a result of e-science initiatives : a snapshot / Neil Rambo
  • Library and information technology support of e-science in the western context / Joan K. Lippincott
  • Head in the clouds and boots on the ground : science, cyberinfrastructure, and CLIR / Amy Friedlander
  • E-science at Johns Hopkins University / G. Sayeed Choudhury
  • An idiosyncratic perspective on the history and development at University of California, San Diego, of support for cyberinfrastructure-enabled e-science / Brian E.C. Shottlaender
  • The National Agricultural Library and e-science / Peter R. Young.