Announcements

JATS-Con to Be Hosted in Baltimore Prior to NISO Plus 2025

November 22, 2024November 22, 2024 No Comment

Next year’s JATS-Con, the user conference for the Journal Article Tag Suite Standard (ANSI/NISO Z39.96-2024), will be held as a pre-conference day associated with the annual NISO Plus Baltimore meeting on February 10, 2025 at the Baltimore Marriott Waterfront. This is the first JATS-Con since 2023 and the first to be held in person since 2019. The Journal Article Tag Suite (JATS) is an XML format used to describe scientific literature published online. First published by NISO in 2012, the standard built on the work of the National Library of Medicine (NLM) and was popularized by the NLM’s PubMed Central …

Cindy Hohl to Give Opening Keynote at NISO Plus 2025 in Baltimore

November 21, 2024November 21, 2024 No Comment

NISO is pleased to announce that Cindy Hohl will deliver the opening keynote address at the NISO Plus 2025 conference in Baltimore on Tuesday, February 11, at 9:30 am ET. Hohl is director of policy analysis and operational support at the Kansas City (Mo.) Public Library and the 2024–2025 president of the American Library Association (ALA). She has also served in a number of other leadership roles in the library community. She is past president of the American Indian Library Association and a board member of the ALA-affiliated Freedom to Read Foundation. She also serves on the Standing Committee of the …

Registration for NISO Plus 2025 in Baltimore Is Now Open!

November 8, 2024November 8, 2024 No Comment

We are pleased to announce that registration for NISO Plus Baltimore, taking place in person on February 10–12, 2025, at the Marriott Waterfront, is now open! Organized by a committee representing libraries, publishers, vendors, and more from around the world, NISO Plus will emphasize conversation over presentation and offer opportunities throughout for participants to network and address the biggest challenges currently facing the information community, including issues around emerging technologies, open research and open access, metadata, research integrity and ethics, and much more. Presentations or panel discussions will be followed by discussion and Q&A periods in which participants will collaborate …

Apply Now for a NISO Plus 2025 Scholarship Award!

October 30, 2024October 30, 2024 No Comment

We are excited to announce that applications for the 2025 NISO Plus Scholarship Awards are now open! As we celebrate the sixth anniversary of the NISO Plus Conference, we invite you to apply to be a member of the 2025 cohort, or encourage a friend or colleague to apply. The NISO Plus Scholarship Award is designed for emerging and mid-career professionals who feel their perspectives are underrepresented in libraries, publishing, or service provider organizations. We’re eager to welcome applicants who are ready to learn, network, and bring their unique voices and ideas to help solve the challenges facing scholarly communications. …

It’s Time to Submit Session Ideas for NISO Plus Baltimore!

October 8, 2024October 8, 2024 No Comment

On the heels of a successful NISO Plus Global/Online conference, we’re looking ahead to NISO Plus Baltimore, to be held in person at the Baltimore Marriott Waterfront on February 10–12. If you have thoughts on how to address big issues and challenges in the information community, or potential solutions that you’d like to explore with other professionals, we encourage you to submit a proposal! NISO Plus Baltimore is a great opportunity to meet and collaborate in person with professionals from across the information community to address the most pressing issues in scholarly communications. We welcome proposals from everyone across the …

Rachel Bruce to Deliver Opening Keynote at NISO Plus Global/Online

August 29, 2024August 29, 2024 No Comment

We’re delighted to announce that Rachel Bruce, Head of Open Science at UK Research and Innovation (UKRI), will deliver the opening keynote, “Open research, incentivizing change, and underpinning infrastructure: A UK Perspective,” at the NISO Plus 2024 Global/Online conference (September 17–18). UKRI is the UK’s largest public funder of research, spanning all disciplines as well as innovation with industry. Rachel leads the policies and strategies for open research across UKRI and works with stakeholders across the UK and internationally, including government, universities, and research organizations to support the transition to open, transparent, and impactful research. Rachel has worked in digital infrastructure and scholarly …

Register by August 9 for NISO Plus 2024 Global/Online Early Bird Rates

August 2, 2024August 2, 2024 No Comment

The early bird registration deadline for our 2024 NISO Plus Global/Online conference (September 17–18) is just a week away! Sign up by Friday, August 9, for the best rates to this interactive virtual meeting focused on bringing people together and inspiring collaboration in the information community. Here are just a few reasons to attend NISO Plus Global/Online: Thanks to our generous sponsors—Cadmore Media, figshare, Bowker, EBSCO, Silverchair, Access Innovations, CHORUS, and the Modern Language Association—registration rates for the conference are affordable for all in the community. Tickets start at just $49 for students, attendees who are unemployed, retirees, and those …

Preliminary Program Now Available for NISO Plus Global/Online

July 19, 2024July 10, 2024 No Comment

The 2024 NISO Plus Global/Online conference (September 17–18) is just over two months away! As with all NISO Plus events, the focus is on identifying problems in the scholarly ecosystem that the community can solve together, and the format will foster conversation during the sessions, empowering attendees to be a part of any solutions that might emerge. And as the early bird registration deadline (August 9) approaches, we are excited to announce that our preliminary program is now available. Proposed by members of the community and reviewed and selected by the NISO Plus 2024–25 Planning Committee, sessions for the two-day, …

Ginny Barbour to Deliver Keynote at NISO Plus Global/Online

June 27, 2024June 26, 2024 No Comment

We are delighted to announce that Professor Virginia (Ginny) Barbour, Editor-in-Chief of the Medical Journal of Australia and Adjunct Professor at Queensland University of Technology (QUT), will deliver one of two keynote addresses at the NISO Plus 2024 Global/Online conference. An early champion of open research, Professor Barbour was trained in the UK in medicine at Cambridge University and University College and Middlesex Hospital medical schools, specializing in hematology. She went on to do a DPhil at Oxford University and post-doctoral research in the US on globin gene regulation. She joined The Lancet in 1999, leaving in 2004 to be …

Answer the Call! Propose a Session for the 2024 NISO Plus Global/Online Conference

April 30, 2024April 30, 2024 No Comment

What are the top priorities and concerns facing your organization? What are the biggest opportunities or risks, and how should the information community address them? If you have ideas to share, then we encourage you to submit a proposal for the 2024 NISO Plus Global/Online conference, to be held virtually September 17–18, 2024. It’s 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. And as with any NISO Plus conference, ideas emerging from the meeting will help to shape discussions about future …