NISO Plus 2025

The call for proposals for NISO Plus Global/Online is now open!

May 15, 2025May 15, 2025 No Comment

It’s time to submit session ideas for the 2025 virtual NISO Plus Global/Online conference, happening September 16–17! Whether you have an idea for addressing a challenge facing the information community, or just want to bring people together to brainstorm solutions, we want to hear from you. Our call for proposals is open now through June 20. NISO Plus Global/Online is 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. Each session will include time dedicated to q&a and discussion, and this year, …

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 …