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
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Jonathan Bresman explains why the Starship Enterprise and Jurassic Park needed semantic search
Neil Blair Christensen
Neil Blair Christensen discusses the evolution of enriched scholarly research
Anna Clarkson
Anna Clarkson details a reconstruction of the publishing process
Harriet Clark
The repository has become an increasingly important part of an institution’s infrastructure, writes Harriet Clark
Jennifer Schivas
Jennifer Schivas re-examines semantic enrichment’s strategic importance
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Many believe open access funding agreements will tip the balance of publishing output. But not everyone, says Rebecca Pool
Amer Abukhalaf
Research institutions and funders need to be more aware of the phenomenon, writes Amer Abukhalaf
Manisha Bolina
The need for fast, accurate and enriched data has never been more pressing, writes Manisha Bolina
Nathan Cunningham
A national infrastructure for research data is necessary to effectively apply AI and machine learning, writes Nathan Cunningham
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Publishers’ power in the research ecosystem must be tackled on a sector-wide basis, writes Silke Machold
Phil Gooch
Phil Gooch looks back at the history of semantic enrichment, and how it will be used going forward
Simone Taylor
AIP Publishing's Simone Taylor talks digital books, inclusion, long-distance walking and gluten-free baking
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Keywords help people find visual content on search engines, photo libraries and in-house image databases, writes Clemency Wright
Prabhakar Bisen
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Advancements in digital technologies have played a vital role in modernising the entire scholarly publication process, writes Prabhakar Bisen
