The Call for Proposals for NISO Plus 2026 in Baltimore Is Now Open
If you have thoughts on how to address big issues and challenges in scholarly communication, we hope you'll be joining us at this month's NISO Plus 2025 Global/Online conference (September 16–17). But if you want to get a jump on the submissions process for our next in-person meeting, the call for proposals for our NISO Plus 2026 conference in Baltimore (February 16–18) is now open! We encourage you to submit a proposal for the conference, held in person February 16–18 at the Marriott Waterfront.
NISO Plus Baltimore is a great opportunity to meet and collaborate with information professionals to address the most pressing issues in scholarly communications. Each session will include time dedicated to q&a and discussion, and as with all NISO Plus conferences, ideas emerging from the meeting will help to shape discussions about future NISO standards and projects. Broad topics of interest include (but aren't limited to) the following:
- AI (licensing, emerging use cases, and ethics) and emerging technologies
- Accessibility
- Building community in times of uncertainty and disruption
- Cybersecurity
- Multilingualism in scholarly communications
- Research integrity
- Open research and its supporting infrastructure
- Metadata and persistent identifiers
We encourage session proposals from professionals across the information community—librarians, publishers, vendors, researchers, and others.
As part of our ongoing efforts to improve and support diversity, equity, inclusion, and accessibility in the information community (https://www.niso.org/what-we-do/DEIcommittee), we strongly encourage and will prioritize proposals that reflect a variety of perspectives—geographical, organizational, functional, etc.—and that acknowledge and address DEIA challenges and opportunities. (We therefore recommend that you include either confirmed speakers or examples of who you might invite.)
The closing date for proposals is October 17, 2025, after which all proposals will be anonymized before being reviewed by a subset of the NISO Plus 2025 Planning Committee. We will notify everyone submitting a proposal of the committee's decision by the first week of November.