Program

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 …

Our Early Bird Registration Deadline Is Just Days Away!

January 4, 2024January 4, 2024 No Comment

NISO Plus 2024 in Baltimore is just a few short weeks away, and if you haven’t yet registered, now’s the time! Early bird discounts are available through January 8, with additional discounts for NISO members and groups. Now in its fifth year—and in person for the first time since 2020—the NISO Plus Conference will feature expert panel discussions developed by a planning committee of information professionals from around the world. Our program also includes inspiring keynotes from industry leaders, including Thomas Padilla’s opening address on “States of Open AI” and the annual Miles Conrad lecture, to be delivered this year …

Join Us at NISO Plus for a Pre-conference Introduction to AI in Scholarly Communications

December 6, 2023December 6, 2023 No Comment

Need to get up to speed on AI and its use in the information community? On Monday, February 12 (1:00–5:00 pm ET), the National Information Standards Organization (NISO) will host a pre-conference, “Introduction to AI and Machine Learning in Scholarly Communications.” The in-person educational event will take place at the Hyatt Regency Inner Harbor in Baltimore, just one day prior to the fifth anniversary NISO Plus Baltimore conference. Since the launch of ChatGPT earlier this year, stories about AI have dominated the media. Everyone knows it’s important, but the current and potential impacts on individual roles and organizations are still …

The Preliminary Program for NISO Plus 2024 in Baltimore Is Now Available

November 21, 2023November 21, 2023 No Comment

Here at NISO we’ve been hard at work planning for the NISO Plus 2024 conference in Baltimore, Maryland (February 13–14). Celebrating its fifth anniversary, the conference will continue to bring librarians, publishers, tech and service providers, government agencies, and more to address some of the biggest trends and issues in the information community. We are pleased to share that a preliminary agenda is now available, so take a look at what’s in store and register for the meeting now—the early bird deadline is January 8. …

NISO Plus 2023 Is All About … Metadata!

January 4, 2023January 4, 2023 No Comment

Thanks to the enthusiasm of our global planning committee and many of those who submitted session proposals, as well as the participants in the first NISO Plus Forum in September 2022, metadata is THE hot topic at NISO Plus 2023—which is great for NISO, since so much of our work is about developing standardized metadata and/or using it in a standardized way. This year’s conference features an entire track dedicated to the topic, including sessions on metadata in the creative industries, communicating the value of metadata, multi-language metadata — not to mention, Metadata Greatest Hits: Music Through the Ages! There …

Announcing the (Almost!) Final NISO Plus 2023 Program

December 23, 2022December 14, 2022 No Comment

With exactly two months till NISO Plus 2023 (February 14-16, 2023) — and less than a month to register at the early bird rate (available through January 9, 2023) — we’re delighted to share the close-to-final program with you. We have a wonderful lineup of speakers, including three great keynotes — Dr. David Weinberger (Berkman Klein Center at Harvard University, USA), Dr. Caleb Kibet (Pwani University, Kenya), and Dr. Yuko Harayama (Professor Emeritus at Tohoku University, Japan) — as well as this year’s Miles Conrad Awardee, Dr. Safiya Noble, (UCLA Center for Critical Internet Inquiry and MacArthur Foundation Fellow, aka …

Dr. Yuko Harayama Is Confirmed as our NISO Plus 2023 Closing Keynote Speaker

October 28, 2022October 27, 2022 No Comment

We’re delighted to announce that Dr. Yuko Harayama, Professor Emeritus at Tohoku University, Japan will give the closing keynote at the NISO Plus 2023 conference. Her talk is scheduled for February 16, 9.00pm Eastern Time/ February 17, 11.00am Japan Standard Time. Dr. Harayama has had a long and distinguished career. She is currently the co-chair of the Board of Directors of the Japanese Association for the Advancement of Science (JAAS), and also serves as a researcher representative on the ORCID Board (through December 2022). Dr. Harayama holds a Ph.D. in Education Sciences and a Ph.D. in Economics, both from the …

NISO Plus 2023 Call for Proposals!

November 7, 2022October 18, 2022 No Comment

What do you see as top priority for the information community right now? What are our biggest challenges and opportunities? How should we be addressing them? And who should be involved? If you have ideas to share, then we warmly invite you to submit a proposal for the NISO Plus 2023 conference, taking place online on February 14-16 2023. It’s the perfect opportunity for you to engage with other individuals and organizations from across the information community — and around the world — on the hot topics that you and your organization care about. What’s more, where appropriate, the ideas …