August/September 2009

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