2026

Joy Owango to Deliver Opening Keynote at NISO Plus Global/Online 2026

July 16, 2026July 16, 2026 No Comment

We are delighted to share the news that Joy Owango, Executive Director of TCC Africa (Training Centre in Communication), is the opening keynote speaker for this year’s NISO Plus Global/Online conference! She will deliver her presentation, “From Persistent Identifiers to Persistent Intelligence: How DOCiD Connects Human Knowledge, AI Systems, and Research Trust through Standards,” on Wednesday, September 16, 2026 at 9:45–10:45 am EDT. TCC Africa is an award-winning trust established in 2006 to strengthen research capacity, scholarly communication, and open science across Africa. There Joy provides strategic leadership for programs focused on open science advocacy, research capacity strengthening, scholarly communication, …

Start a Conversation! Submit Your Proposal for NISO Plus Baltimore 2027

July 15, 2026July 15, 2026 No Comment

Our Planning Committee may be working hard on September’s virtual NISO Plus Global/Online event, but a subcommittee is already looking ahead to our in-person meeting in Baltimore! We’re opening the call for NISO Plus Baltimore proposals early to allow everyone enough time to submit an idea for our February 15–17, 2027 meeting in Charm City. NISO Plus Baltimore brings together professionals from across the information community to identify shared challenges and brainstorming potential solutions. We invite proposals addressing a broad range of topics: Topics not listed here are welcome! We want to hear about what’s important to you and your …

Announcing the 2026 NISO Plus Global/Online Preliminary Program

July 13, 2026July 13, 2026 No Comment

The NISO Plus Planning Committee is pleased to announce that the draft programfor NISO Plus 2026 Global/Online (September 16–17) is now available! The theme of this year’s virtual meeting is “Connecting Human Futures and Intelligent Systems through Standards,” reflecting our commitment to community values and ethics as we leverage new technologies to create efficiencies and make research more accessible and discoverable for all. The program will address a variety of timely topics, including the following (to name just a few!): AI technologies and their impact on scholarly communications will touch on many if not most of the sessions, and where appropriate, we will bring relevant …

Registration for NISO Plus Global/Online 2026 Is Now Open!

June 16, 2026June 16, 2026 No Comment

We are pleased to announce that registration for our NISO Plus Global/Online conference (September 16–17, 2026) is now open! The two-day virtual meeting will focus on bringing professionals—representatives from libraries, publishers, technology and service providers, government agencies, and more—together to focus on some of the most pressing challenges facing the information community For 2026, the NISO Plus Planning Committee has selected a theme, “Connecting Human Futures and Intelligent Systems through Standards,” for the conference. The conference program reflects the growing importance and impact of AI in the academic ecosystem, while also reminding everyone that it’s critical for our AI-related standards work to keep humans …

NISO Plus Baltimore Slides on AI in Scholarly Communications and More Are Now Available

April 13, 2026April 13, 2026 No Comment

Slides from our February 16–18, 2025 NISO Plus conference are now available in our figshare repository! Presentations cover a range of topics, including trust markers for research integrity, open research infrastructure, access and authentication, cross-industry collaboration, and of course, AI in scholarly communications. One of the highlights of the conference program was our February 16 preconference day, which offered two very timely half-day sessions on AI in publishing. Slide decks from each have been posted to the repository, and they’re worth checking out if you want to get an idea of some of the AI-related challenges publishers and libraries are currently grappling with. The first, Keeping the …