2025 has been a year of disruption and uncertainty for many, and now more than ever, it’s important to remind ourselves that we’re part of a community. Our annual NISO Plus Global/Online conference, happening September 16–17, offers a timely opportunity to connect with colleagues, share insights on thriving in a rapidly evolving landscape, and propose new ideas for addressing a variety of challenges. 

At NISO Plus Global/Online, speakers will address the areas of greatest concern to those working in scholarly communications, including cybersecurity, accessibility, research integrity, use cases for AI, and AI and ethics. Attendees will learn how colleagues are tackling problems in their own organizations and institutions. This year, in answer to feedback from previous conferences, sessions will be held live wherever possible, and as always, we will include time dedicated to discussion and brainstorming solutions to the problems we explore. These are the conversations that lead to future standards projects!

The meeting program will also include keynotes, networking, and updates on NISO standards updates, including Phase III of KBART, the Open Access Business Processes Working Group, the US National PID Strategy, and the Accessibility Remediation Metadata project. And we’ll build on the latest ideas to emerge from our in-person meeting held in Baltimore in February, many of them around research integrity and the use of AI in scholarly communications and research.

We hope you’ll join us for this opportunity to participate in the discussions that shape our standards program. In the meantime, our conference planning committee is working hard on developing an interactive, diverse program of sessions, and your ideas will be a big part of that! See our blog for more information on the call for proposals, and submit yours by June 20 to considered for inclusion in the conference program.

How to Sponsor NISO Plus Global/Online

Sponsors of the NISO Plus 2025 Global/Online conference gain a unique opportunity to highlight their organization’s expertise, build their brand among the global information community, and expand their client base. Attendees from previous virtual NISO Plus conferences have come from a range of organizations in the scholarly communications space:

• Publishers (commercial and nonprofit)
• Scholarly societies
• Libraries
• Tech/service providers 
• Aggregators `
• Scholarly infrastructure providers
• Government agencies
• Consultancies 

This year, sponsors at the Byte level and above also have an opportunity to present in our lightning session on new products and technology! If your organization would like to sponsor the NISO Plus 2025 Global/Online conference, you can review your options and sign up using our online sponsorship form.