Program

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, …

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 …

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 …

The Preliminary Program for NISO Plus 2026 in Baltimore Is Now Available

January 20, 2026December 3, 2025 No Comment

As our February NISO Plus conference approaches, we are delighted to share highlights from the draft program with you: For additional details, view the full preliminary program below (be sure to check in over the coming weeks for updates on speakers). Remember to register by the early-bird deadline, January 14, for the best rates, and book your hotel room soon. Until then, warm wishes for the holiday season and new year!

Take a sneak peek at the preliminary program for NISO Plus 2025 Global/Online!

July 30, 2025July 18, 2025 No Comment

The NISO Plus Planning Committee is hard at work preparing for our September virtual event! We’ve notified all those who submitted proposals (it was difficult to choose among so many good ones!) and are pleased to invite you now to take a look at our preliminary program. This year, NISO Plus Global/Online features sessions on a wide range of trends and challenges in the information community, including the ethical use of rapidly evolving AI technology, advancing open research and research integrity, changing accessibility regulations, and new ways to think about and manage metadata. In the NISO Plus tradition, each session …

NISO Plus Pre-conferences Cover AI, Open Access Books, and JATS

January 16, 2025January 16, 2025 No Comment

The 2025 NISO Plus conference in Baltimore is just a few weeks away! This year’s meeting program includes three timely, collaborative pre-conferences (February 10) focused on generating ideas for solutions to challenges in the information community, including ethical use of AI and assessing the value of open access content. Tickets are very affordable, starting at just $99 for the half-day sessions! Again, many thanks to our generous sponsors—American Chemical Society, ASME, Bowker, CHORUS, Clarivate, Contiem, EBSCO, OpenAthens, the Open Science Framework, Project MUSE, Silverchair and SPIE Digital Library—for helping to keep our registration rates affordable. Attending the main meeting is not required to participate in the pre-conferences, although we’d love to have you stay! The program …

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. …

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, …