Kai Ekholm has been director of the National Library of Finland since 2001. He is also chair of IFLA's Committee on Free Access to Information and Freedom of Expression (FAIFE)
Ingeborg Verheul describes the work of IFLA and how the organisation is helping librarians work together in digitisation and digital libraries
Four languages, five metadata standards, 13 OPACS, four federated search platforms and more than 800 libraries... Tobias Viegener reveals the challenges in building a nationwide search platform for Switzerland
Antony Williams explains why the Royal Society of Chemistry has acquired chemical information search tool ChemSpider
David Mort gives his annual insight into the European STM information market and the effects of reduced funding
Renate Bayaz of Springer explains some of the challenges involved in moving the company's large historical collection to the Central and Regional Library in Berlin
Accessing original datasets is becoming increasingly important in research today but finding this data can be a challenge. Toby Green, head of publishing for OECD, argues the case for standards to help researchers find and cite published datasets and tables
John Murphy finds out about the challenges that Cambridge University Press (CUP) faced in digitising its complete journal archive
Michael Upshall is head of sales and business development at Unsilo
Michael Upshall reports on an ongoing survey focusing on artificial intelligence in academic publishing
Helen Tian considers what international publishers should consider when building a marketing strategy in this region
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Donald Samulack investigates the possibilities of augmented reality in academic publishing
Andrew Preston
Andrew Preston describes how to make transparent peer review work at scale
Micah Vandegrift
Micah Vandegrift discusses a broad variety of methods to share research and scholarship, especially infused with open values
The discussion in scholarly publishing has moved on from open access to open research, from opening up access to publications to opening up the whole research process and as wide a variety of research outcomes as possible.
Adrian Mulligan
Researchers now spend almost as much time searching for articles as actually reading them, writes Adrian Mulligan
Scholarly publishing leaders must show the way in using the technology to solve problems within the industry, writes Darrell Gunter
Roy Kaufman
Roy Kaufman focuses on a promising trend for dynamic, content-empowered learning environments
Catt Thompson-Baum
Catt Thompson-Baum, conservation manager for Wiley Digital Archives, gives an inside view of the world of archive collections – from mummified rats to medieval parchments
Claire Doffegnies
Given the constant discussion about Brexit at the moment, you’d be forgiven for forgetting that the EU Parliament continues to legislate on issues that affect the lives of citizens across Europe, from Agriculture to Transport, writes Claire Doffegnies
