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Charleston Library Conference 

Aug 21, 2023

In today’s episode, we’re talking with Jonathan Adams, Chief Scientist, Institute of Scientific Information, a part of Clarivate. 

Jonathan is interviewed by Matthew Ismail, a Conference Director and Editor in Chief of the Charleston Briefings.

Jonathan Adams is a jack of all trades in the scholarly communication...


Aug 14, 2023

In today’s episode, we’re talking with Viktoriya Vasilenko, Co-founder and CEO of Knowledge Gate Group, which is an independent think tank organization that focuses on eradicating uncertainty in business decisions within life science. Based in Copenhagen, but operating on a global scale, Knowledge Gate Group...


Aug 7, 2023

Audio from the 2022 Charleston Conference from a Session titled "The Places We’ve Been: NISOs Interoperable System of Controlled Digital Lending Update.” The NISO Working Group that is developing a consensus framework in support of controlled digital lending (CDL) of book content by libraries began its work in...