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The Physical Sciences Data-science Service is a National Research Facility which brings together tools and resources for UK researchers in physical sciences, including chemistry, crystallography, materials and related fields. It provides access to web-based data services are which are freely accessible for academic users from the UK.
The Energy Data Centre (EDC) is a part of the UK Energy Research Centre (UKERC) and provides a hub for information on all publically funded energy research happening in the UK.
The following types of information are held in the EDC:
The Ada Lovelace Centre (ALC) provides computing hardware, builds software, and provides computational and data analytics expertise that will spark a paradigm shift in the capability of scientists to design, analyse and interpret experiments at relevant research infrastructures such as Diamond Light Source, ISIS Neutron and Muon Source, Central Laser Facility and Culham Centre for Fusion Energy. The ALC exists to: • Build capacity in advanced software infrastructure for the handling...
Anvil provides a platform to enable researchers to test their software automatically. Regular Testing, Robust Software. Further developments will enable testing on HPC infrastructures. Providing testing for research software enables better research as the quality of the software will be improved. Providing the links to testing on HPC and commercial clouds is a unique offering and is unlikely to be provided by others as it is niche.
The ATI Nano- Manufacture and Processing RII consolidates activities that design, process, fabricate, characterise and test novel materials and devices that rely on the nano/micro-scale. This leads naturally to themes in energy harvesting and storage, communications (wireless & optical), and sensors. These strands enable applications, such as self-powered sensor nodes on the Internet of Things. Electrochemistry and Formulations have major activities related to the synthesis of perovskite...
The Biomedical Imaging Unit is a joint University of Southampton (UoS)/ University Hospitals Southampton NHS Foundation Trust (UHS) facility for diagnostic and research microscopy. The BIU houses microscopes capable of 2-, 3- and 4D imaging (from brightfield microscopy through to confocal, light sheet, time lapse, virtual scanning, µCT, SEM, TEM & serial block face SEM) using a range of imaging sources (light, x-ray and electron). We are the only joint NHS/University imaging facility in the...
The Bodleian Libraries mission is to provide an excellent service to support the learning, teaching and research objectives of the University of Oxford; and to develop and maintain access to Oxford's unique collections for the benefit of scholarship and society. The Bodleian has been collecting material for more than 400 years and currently holds more than 12 million printed items, over 80,000 e-journals, and some 56,000 linear metres of outstanding special collections. These include rare books...
BOSCORF is the UK’s national deep-sea sediment core research facility and provides a unique and strategic service to the environmental science community. It provides an advanced state-of-the-art non-destructive core logging and analysis capability that is unique in the UK. BOSCORF also provides specialised long-term sediment core storage facilities, so that sediment cores collected by NERC ships, and NERC- funded researchers, can be kept under optimum conditions to ensure long-term preservation...
The Centre for Advanced Electron Spin Resonance (CAESR) provides a world-class facility for use by scientists across the physical and life sciences. In addition to providing experimental infrastructure, CAESR aims to encourage a multidisciplinary approach to the development of electron spin resonance that is driven by the symbiosis between methodology design and technique application. Research performed in CAESR is internationally leading, as evidenced by the excellent publication record. The...
The CLF is one of the world’s leading centres for multi-disciplinary science and innovation using lasers. It is one of the three open access UK National Facilities that works with a national and international user Community of research scientists that are operating at the forefront of their respective fields and require access to the most advanced and sophisticated laser based facilities available. Its work spans the scientific spectrum, working with the majority of UK universities, all five...