Finland's information backbone
27 July 2009
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)
August/September 2009
International body promotes digital libraries
27 July 2009
Ingeborg Verheul describes the work of IFLA and how the organisation is helping librarians work together in digitisation and digital libraries
Switzerland builds next-generation metacatalogue
27 July 2009
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
Community curation helps chemical information
27 July 2009
Antony Williams explains why the Royal Society of Chemistry has acquired chemical information search tool ChemSpider
Tight budgets affect scholarly information market
27 July 2009
David Mort gives his annual insight into the European STM information market and the effects of reduced funding
Springer collection returns to its roots
27 July 2009
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
Published data needs standards
27 July 2009
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
CUP launches digital archive
27 July 2009
John Murphy finds out about the challenges that Cambridge University Press (CUP) faced in digitising its complete journal archive
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