2025

Alondra Nelson Is Our 2026 Miles Conrad Awardee

October 28, 2025October 28, 2025 No Comment

We are pleased to announce that Alondra Nelson, Harold F. Linder Chair in the School of Social Science at the Institute for Advanced Study, is our 2026 Miles Conrad awardee. The award is named for the founder of the National Federation of Abstracting and Indexing Services (NFAIS), which merged with NISO in 2019, and recognizes distinguished lifetime achievement in moving us toward a world where all can benefit from the unfettered exchange of information. Dr. Nelson will receive the award and deliver the Miles Conrad Lecture on February 17 during the 2026 NISO Plus conference in Baltimore. During the Biden …

The Call for Applications for the NISO Plus 2026 Scholarship Awards Is Now Open!

October 24, 2025October 24, 2025 No Comment

Are you an emerging or mid-career professional and feel that your perspectives are underrepresented in scholarly communications? Are you eager for new opportunities to learn, network, and help explore solutions to the challenges facing the community? If your answer to these questions is yes, then we invite you to apply for a 2026 NISO Plus Scholarship Award! Now in its seventh year, the NISO Plus Scholarship program provides opportunities for professionals from diverse backgrounds to actively participate in shaping the information ecosystem. Candidates working across the information ecosystem—librarians, publishers, service and tech providers, and more—are encouraged to submit their applications. …

The JATS-Con 2026 Call for Proposals Is Now Open

October 23, 2025October 23, 2025 No Comment

JATS-Con, the user conference for the NISO Z39.96-2021 Journal Article Tag Suite, will be held as a pre-conference day associated with the NISO Plus Baltimore conference on February 16, 2026, at the Marriott Waterfront. This year, presenters unable to join JATS-Con in Baltimore may participate virtually. (Please note that the main NISO Plus conference is an in-person event.) JATS-Con is seeking papers relevant to the use or non-use of the JATS or an extension such as the Book Interchange Tag Suite (BITS), TaxPub, or the NISO Standards Tag Set (NISO STS). The following topics are suggestions only: Presentations will be …

Take a sneak peek at the preliminary program for NISO Plus 2025 Global/Online!

July 30, 2025July 18, 2025 No Comment

The NISO Plus Planning Committee is hard at work preparing for our September virtual event! We’ve notified all those who submitted proposals (it was difficult to choose among so many good ones!) and are pleased to invite you now to take a look at our preliminary program. This year, NISO Plus Global/Online features sessions on a wide range of trends and challenges in the information community, including the ethical use of rapidly evolving AI technology, advancing open research and research integrity, changing accessibility regulations, and new ways to think about and manage metadata. In the NISO Plus tradition, each session …

Nancy S. Kirkpatrick Is Our 2025 NISO Plus Global/Online Closing Keynote Speaker

July 9, 2025July 9, 2025 No Comment

We are pleased to announce that Nancy S. Kirkpatrick, JD, MS, will be the closing keynote speaker at this year’s virtual NISO Plus Global/Online conference (September 16–17). Kirkpatrick is the next Dean of Libraries at Smith College, where she will bring her passion for inclusive leadership, strategic thinking, and library innovation to one of the nation’s most prestigious liberal arts colleges. Nancy brings over two decades of leadership in academic libraries and nonprofit organizations. Prior to Smith, she served as Dean of Libraries at Florida International University and as Executive Director and CEO of OhioNet, where she led initiatives in …

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Dr. Mark Aldridge to deliver opening keynote at NISO Plus Global/Online

June 18, 2025June 18, 2025 No Comment

The National Information Standards Organization (NISO) is pleased to announce that Dr. Mark Aldridge, Associate Professor of Screen Histories at Southampton Solent University and Agatha Christie historian, is the opening keynote speaker of the 2025 NISO Plus Global/Online conference (September 16–17). Dr. Aldridge was lead researcher and writer on the BBC Maestro course on Agatha Christie, which launched in April 2025. The course is particularly notable for its use of artificial intelligence (AI) to enhance the voice and appearance of an actress who plays Christie and teaches mystery-writing using the author’s own words. Dr. Aldridge is also the author of …

The call for proposals for NISO Plus Global/Online is now open!

May 15, 2025May 15, 2025 No Comment

It’s time to submit session ideas for the 2025 virtual NISO Plus Global/Online conference, happening September 16–17! Whether you have an idea for addressing a challenge facing the information community, or just want to bring people together to brainstorm solutions, we want to hear from you. Our call for proposals is open now through June 20. NISO Plus Global/Online is a great opportunity to meet and collaborate with professionals from across the information community and around the world to address the most pressing issues in scholarly communications. Each session will include time dedicated to q&a and discussion, and this year, …

NISO Plus Pre-conferences Cover AI, Open Access Books, and JATS

January 16, 2025January 16, 2025 No Comment

The 2025 NISO Plus conference in Baltimore is just a few weeks away! This year’s meeting program includes three timely, collaborative pre-conferences (February 10) focused on generating ideas for solutions to challenges in the information community, including ethical use of AI and assessing the value of open access content. Tickets are very affordable, starting at just $99 for the half-day sessions! Again, many thanks to our generous sponsors—American Chemical Society, ASME, Bowker, CHORUS, Clarivate, Contiem, EBSCO, OpenAthens, the Open Science Framework, Project MUSE, Silverchair and SPIE Digital Library—for helping to keep our registration rates affordable. Attending the main meeting is not required to participate in the pre-conferences, although we’d love to have you stay! The program …