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
The pandemic has pushed the use of technology to the fore and it is likely to remain there, writes Tim Gillett
Lou Peck and Phil Hurst
Lou Peck and Phil Hurst cast an eye over proceedings during Peer Review Week
Academic publishers are railing against inaccurate stories and asking the scientific community to do more, writes Matt McKay
We've recently seen some positive and impactful changes to the way in which the OA landscape can work, writes Steven Inchcoombe
Rebecca Pool asks: has Covid-19 pushed the move towards open data to the point of no return?
