RIC is a Virtual Research Environment – an online environment for your research, which will make organising and conducting your research projects easier. RIC provides a web-accessible suite of tools and resources to support all aspects of the research lifecycle. Its aim is to help the researcher pull together all required resources rather than having to access each one separately. It is currently still in a development stage.
Developed in partnership by the British Library and Microsoft, and with input from our other project partners, RIC will be a constantly evolving platform that can be tailored to specific disciplines and research needs. We will focus on the biomedical domain in the first release.
How RIC Helps Your Research
RIC enables researchers to:
• Perform efficient, federated searches across all relevant resources
• Store, organise and share documents, including literature and data
• Collaborate with distributed teams
• Keep up-to-date on funding opportunities
• Access data analysis tools in the same virtual working space
• Manage outputs, such as funding proposals, papers, presentations and datasets in a structured document workflow
• Long-term storage of projects and data
