Sci­ence Ref­er­ence Ser­vices of the Sci­ence, Tech­nol­ogy & Busi­ness Divi­sion of the Library of Con­gress, has cre­ated this research guide E-SCIENCE dated Jan­u­ary, 2009.  There are many use­ful research guides at their web­site;  they list key books, jour­nals, data­bases, tech­ni­cal reports, dis­ser­ta­tions, etc.   The series is called “Sci­ence Tracer Bul­lets Online”

The def­i­n­i­tion of “e-science” from the intro­duc­tion to the guide:

“The term e-Science refers to large scale sci­ence that is car­ried out through dis­trib­uted global col­lab­o­ra­tions enabled by the Inter­net. Typ­i­cally, such col­lab­o­ra­tive sci­en­tific enter­prises require access to very large data sets, very large scale com­put­ing resources, and high per­for­mance visu­al­iza­tion. e-Science is a dig­i­tal infra­struc­ture that allows sci­en­tists to con­duct research in new ways. Com­mon ter­mi­nol­ogy related to e-Science include cyber­in­fra­struc­ture, grids, grid com­put­ing, dis­trib­uted net­works, and high per­for­mance computing.”