The concepts of e-Science and e-Research have emerged from the growing use of information technologies, high speed networks and online instruments within the research community. E-Science is characterised by large-scale, distributed scientific collaborations enabled by the Internet and related technologies. E-Research is the more general term, which covers e-Science as well as non-scientific research, such as in the humanities and social sciences.
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A feature of both e-Science and e-Research is their use of distributed computing resources to provide access to very large data collections, unique scientific facilities, very large scale computing resources and high performance analysis, modelling and visualisation to scientists. Another important aspect of this research is the high value placed on collaboration and sharing of knowledge between researchers and across disciplines.