Finland's information backbone
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)
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
James Molloy reflects on the many different strands of his role as a librarian
Siloed data has a wide-reaching impact, say Ted Slater and James Malone
The last decade promised a revolution but high prices have stirred up a rebellion
Michele Avissar-Whiting outlines the course of post-pandemic preprinting
Research Information meets award-winning Ghanaian researcher Marian Asantewah Nkansah
Eric Merkel-Sobotta discusses the APE conference, the Berlin Institute for Scholarly Publishing, and a great love of horticulture
Andrew Barker, UKSG chair, looks back on a difficult year – and towards a brighter future (and tells of his love for 50s jazz)