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It's Time to Submit a Session Idea for Our 2026 NISO Plus Conference in Baltimore

It's Time to Submit a Session Idea for Our 2026 NISO Plus Conference in Baltimore

September 2025

Whether you missed last week’s virtual NISO Plus Global/Online meeting, or attended and want to continue the conversation, our NISO Plus Baltimore conference is happening on February 16–18, 2026. And if you want to help us set the agenda, the call for proposals is now open! It’s a great opportunity to meet and collaborate with information professionals across the community to address the most pressing issues in scholarly communications.

Each session at NISO Plus Baltimore 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 conversations about future NISO standards and projects. Broad topics of interest include (but aren't limited to) the following: 

  • AI and emerging technologies
  • Archiving and preservation
  • Global issues
  • Metadata and persistent identifiers
  • Metrics
  • Multilingualism in scholarly communication
  • Open scholarship and open access
  • Identity, access, and privacy
  • Peer review
  • Research infrastructure
  • Research integrity and ethics
  • Sustainability

We encourage session proposals from professionals across the information community—librarians, publishers, service and tech providers, researchers, and others. 

The most successful proposals will encourage interactivity and audience participation. 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 also strongly encourage proposals that reflect a variety of perspectives—geographical, organizational, functional, etc. (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 they will be anonymized before being reviewed by the NISO Plus 2025–26 Planning Committee. We will notify everyone submitting a proposal of the committee's decision by the first week of November.

We look forward to hearing from you! Your ideas help to ensure that our meeting represents the broadest range possible of concerns and interests in the information community, laying the groundwork for future NISO initiatives and areas of focus.