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Access points to Heliophysics information are often poorly inter-linked to one another, making it challenging for researchers to integrate information, mature their understanding, and incorporate more complex ideas and relationships into their analyses. The authors reason this behavior to be a direct conseaquence of the lack of infrastructure for knowledge and data discovery in Heliophysics. Building an online library resource for Heliophysics addresses this gap in resources, and can also address other troublesome gaps related to community-building, such as access to help from other scientists, example analysis tutorials, and collaboration opportunities. This paper envisions a resource that better connects existing Heliophysics information and knowledge sources, the LIbrary for KnowledgE and Discovery (LIKED), which will be an online resource that interlinks information across databases (e.g., observational and publication), researcher interactions (e.g., conferences and discussion boards), and educational materials. The result is a rich and searchable environment to provide users a more productive experience for research and collaboration. In this paper, we provide the conceptual model for LIKED. We expand to detail how LIKED will serve to connect the various knowledge and research components available internationally together in an uniformly searchable manner. Finally, this work outlines various contributions the community can make towards this goal. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Abstract: Education and public outreach (EPO) is one of the four components of the International Heliophysical Year (IHY). It is fundamental in achieving one of IHY’s primary objectives which is to “demonstrate the beauty, relevance and significance of Space and Earth science to the world.” In this paper we give an overview of the IHY–EPO Program. We describe its goals, structure, elements, plans and what have already been achieved. [Copyright &y& Elsevier]

Abstract: The International Heliophysical Year (IHY) is an international program of scientific research to advance our understanding of the physical processes that govern the Sun, Earth and heliosphere. It has a strong educational component, linking research and education. Here, we describe the outreach activities during the 2006 total solar eclipse sponsored by IHY. [Copyright &y& Elsevier]

Coronal mass ejections (CMES) are among the most dramatic forms of transient activity occurring in the solar atmosphere. Despite over twenty years of research, many basic questions related to the physics of CMEs have remained unanswered. Observations with the LASCO and EIT experiments on SOHO, combined with recent theoretical modeling, have provided new insights on some of these outstanding questions and have also raised many new ones that need to be addressed in the future. In this paper, we present some of the new results from SOHO pertaining to the source regions and onsets of CMEs, and their evolution in the corona. We emphasize the important role that studies of CMEs will play in the International Solar Cycle Studies program. [Copyright &y& Elsevier]