Announcements

Dr. Timnit Gebru to Receive the 2025 Miles Conrad Award

December 12, 2024December 12, 2024 No Comment

We are delighted to announce that Dr. Timnit Gebru, Executive Director of the Distributed Artificial Intelligence Research Institute (DAIR), will be the recipient of the 2025 Miles Conrad Award, NISO’s lifetime achievement award for those working in the information community. She will receive her award and deliver the 2025 Miles Conrad Lecture virtually during the NISO Plus Baltimore conference at 3:15 pm EST on Wednesday, February 12, 2025. Prior to founding DAIR, Dr. Timnit Gebru was co-lead of the Ethical AI research team at Google, where she was fired in December 2020 after raising issues of discrimination in the workplace. …

Out Now—The NISO Plus Baltimore Preliminary Program

December 5, 2024December 5, 2024 No Comment

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: 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. …

Thanking Our NISO Plus Baltimore Sponsors

December 2, 2024November 27, 2024 No Comment

The US Thanksgiving holiday is almost here, and this year NISO has a lot to be thankful for, including an amazing group of volunteers—publishers, librarians, vendors, researchers, and others in scholarly communications—who support our many standards working groups and committees as well as our education and DEIA committees. We’re also lucky to benefit from the leadership of our board of directors. We couldn’t do it without their commitment to supporting our mission to advance authoritative standards development through collaboration across the scholarly ecosystem. This year we’re also grateful for our NISO Plus sponsors, especially those who have signed up to …

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 …