Research Information Centre (RIC)
http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/projects/ric/

The Research Information Centre (RIC) is a virtual research environment framework being jointly developed by Microsoft External Research and The British Library. They view researchers as extreme information workers and the purpose of the RIC is to support researchers in managing the increasingly complex range of tasks involved in carrying out research. This has been added to Research Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog.