Vasumathi Sriganesh: Medical professionals seem to still take literature searching and its accuracies to be a “nice to know” skill and not critical

Vasumathi Sriganesh is a librarian by training with excellent exposure to medical librarianship in her stint as Librarian at Hinduja Hospital and HELP. She is now CEO of QMed Knowledge Foundation, a successful entrepreneurial venture established by Vasumathi in 2007.…

Peter Suber: The largest obstacles to open access are unfamiliarity and misunderstanding of open access itself

Peter Suber is an internationally acclaimed expert on open access to knowledge. He is specialised in the history of western philosophy and the philosophy of law and also a non-practicing lawyer. He works for the growth of open access to research,…

Francis Jayakanth: Moderators of discussion groups have to be impartial in dealing with the members and their postings

Francis Jayakanth, Ph.D. is one of the distinguished library and information professionals known for his contributions to the open access movement. A Scientific Assistant at J. R. D. Tata Memorial Library, Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Bengaluru, Jayakanth has been…