NISO is pleased to announce that the preliminary program for the NISO Plus 2025 meeting in Baltimore (February 10–12) is now available! Join us for two days of interactive sessions addressing some of the biggest issues and trends in scholarly communications:
- Research integrity is at the forefront of many of our minds as the community works to combat growing levels of fraud and the rapid spread of disinformation. At NISO Plus, speakers will explore how to better support research integrity, including verifying researcher identity, communicating retraction information to users, and the adoption of research stacks.
- User access, privacy, and cybersecurity are covered in sessions on Seamless Access, upcoming browser changes, protecting patron privacy, and maintaining the delicate balance between ensuring broad access and keeping systems and data secure.
- Open research and open access remain topics for discussion and debate in sessions covering OA models (and how best to evaluate them) and user metrics for OA content. The program also features sessions on open data repositories and the global community’s need for more equitable OA models and structures.
- Artificial intelligence—its use and impact as well as related ethical concerns—will also figure prominently in the NISO Plus Baltimore program. Speakers will share highlights from a report on how generative AI technology is currently used in higher education, explore best practices for transparency in the use of AI, and provide case studies on using AI to enhance metadata and discoverability.
- In the tradition of NISO Plus, participants can also attend our NISO standards updates, in which they’ll hear the latest from NISO committee members on current projects like Open Access Business Processes and Accessibility Remediation Metadata.
Additional program highlights include an opening keynote from Cindy Hohl, director of operations and policy analysis at the Kansas City Library and president of the American Library Association, on “The Human Standard: Equal Library Access for All.” Our annual awards luncheon will recognize outstanding service to the information community and introduce participants to the 2025 NISO Scholarship Awards cohort. Finally, the February 10 pre-conference program includes a pre-conference on AI tools and use cases and a workshop on developing best practices and guidelines for assessing the performance of OA eBooks. And for the first time, JATS-Con, the user conference for the Journal Article Tag Suite standard, will also be held as a full-day pre-conference.
Discounts are available for NISO members and groups, and thanks to our generous sponsors—Bowker, CHORUS, EBSCO, OpenAthens, Project MUSE, and Silverchair—deeper discounts are available for retirees, students, and anyone currently unemployed. Remember to register by January 10 for early bird rates, and book your hotel room soon!
We’ll be updating the program with additional information on individual sessions and speakers in the coming weeks, so don’t forget to check for updates. We hope to see you soon in Baltimore!
