The NISO Plus conference is returning to Baltimore, Maryland from February 16–18, 2026 at the Baltimore Marriott Waterfront!
Organized by a committee representing libraries, publishers, vendors, and more from around the world, the meeting format will emphasize conversation over presentation and offer opportunities throughout for participants to network, collaborate, and explore solutions to challenges currently facing scholarly communications.
Here are just some of our conference program highlights:
- Two workshop-style, half-day pre-conferences focusing on AI in scholarly publishing. The first will cover provisioning AI access to content; the second addresses AI usage tracking. This is a great opportunity to shape the community conversation exploring best practices in these critical areas!
- A full-day pre-conference focused on the Journal Article Tag Suite (JATS)! For the second year running, NISO Plus will host JATS-Con, with sessions dedicated to the use or non-use of JATS and its extensions.
- An opening keynote address from Brandie Nonnecke, expert in information and communication law, governance, and policy and Senior Director of Policy at Americans for Responsible Innovation
- The Miles Conrad Award and Lecture, to be delivered by 2026 awardee Alondra P. Nelson of the Institute for Advanced Study
- Interactive sessions on metadata, research integrity, identity and access, open research infrastructure, and AI (governance, usage metrics, training AI systems, and use cases)
- Two sessions dedicated to information standards updates. This year NISO released drafts resulting from three important projects: the latest revision of KBART, the Open Access Business Processes Recommended Practice, and the Collaborative Collections Lifecycle Infrastructure Recommended Practice. Join us to get the latest on these and other standards initiatives.
We hope you’ll join us next February for this special event. In the meantime, be sure to register by January 14 for the best rates, and book your hotel room soon!