The British Trust for Ornithology has published its Bird Atlas 2007-11 based on tens of thousands of systematic volunteer observations in the UK and Ireland. BTO runs a range of volunteer citizen science surveys.
The UK government's education inspectorate for England, OFSTED, has produced a survey of science education in schools: Maintaining Curiosity. Primary focus on assessment and methodology.
GBIF has announced that it will collaborate with the new open access Nature journal Scientific Data on the implementation of the data paper concept - including data descriptors that will allow better data discovery and citation.
