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Thursday, September 17
 

9:30am EDT

Accessible Content at Scale: AI Tools and Community Responses
Thursday September 17, 2026 9:30am - 10:45am EDT
Online
Making content accessible to everyone regardless of their abilities is a moral imperative, but it can also be a perennial challenge for some organizations. Regulatory demands for accessible content are forcing publishers and institutions to rapidly adapt. WIth expectations changing and requirements expanding, content providers are using a variety of tools, including AI tools, to support accessibility applications. This session will explore how the community is responding and what tools are proving most useful.
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Jeff Lang

Founder & CEO, FigureTwo
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Caroline Coward

Information Science Specialist, Jet Propulsion Laboratory

Thursday September 17, 2026 9:30am - 10:45am EDT
Online
  Track 1

9:30am EDT

The Evolving World of Recognition and Assessment
Thursday September 17, 2026 9:30am - 10:45am EDT
Online
Since the advent of digital research distribution, we have been challenged to capture and quantify new ways to measure impact.  From measuring downloads to capturing the variety of ways that researchers can participate in reearch projects, our methods of assessment have been constantly evolving. This session will explore the changes and the needs for adaptations in how we track contributions, usage, and other metrics.
Thursday September 17, 2026 9:30am - 10:45am EDT
Online
  Track 2

11:00am EDT

Toward a Lingua Franca, or Tower of Babel? The Multilingual Research Paper
Thursday September 17, 2026 11:00am - 12:15pm EDT
Online
According to a recent study, the number of scholarly research articles published in languages other than English has grown over the last three decades. However, the rate of growth varies among individual languages, and some languages have seen a decline in publications. What is driving these trends? How are publishers supporting publications in languages other than English?  Will rapidly evolving translation tools support the growth of such publications?
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Kristina Vrouwenvelder

Assistant Director, Publications Strategy, American Geophysical Union

Thursday September 17, 2026 11:00am - 12:15pm EDT
Online
  Track 1

11:00am EDT

Persistently Evolving: What's New in the World of PIDs
Thursday September 17, 2026 11:00am - 12:15pm EDT
Online
Persistent identifiers, or PIDs, are foundational to open research and research integrity. In this session, we’ll hear the latest on PIDs for scholarly communications, including a new identifier for channel identification, project identification, the US National PID Strategy, and more.
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John Chodacki

California Digital Library

Thursday September 17, 2026 11:00am - 12:15pm EDT
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  Track 2

12:30pm EDT

Lunch á la Carte: Lightning Presentations
Thursday September 17, 2026 12:30pm - 1:30pm EDT
Online
Bring your lunch and enjoy short presentations on new products and innovations in scholarly communications, including AI tools.
Thursday September 17, 2026 12:30pm - 1:30pm EDT
Online
  Plenary

1:45pm EDT

Copyright at the Frontier: Licensing in the Age of AI
Thursday September 17, 2026 1:45pm - 3:00pm EDT
Online
Copyright is a fundamental pillar of content distribution, whether the content is open access or subscription-based. Technology companies are pushing the boundaries of fair use as they train their AI models on published works. Significant legal challenges are open and pending across the world as publishers and authors react. Regulators and policy makers are scambling to define the guardrails of what is copyrightable and set other legal ground rules. Licenses must now define what is allowable and what is not in a world in which seemingly everyone is using AI tools. This session will explore the issues and how our community might adapt to this changing environment.
Speakers
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Katherine Klosek

Director of Information Policy and Federal Relations, Association of Research Libraries
Katherine Klosek is the Director of Information Policy and Federal Relations at the Association of Research Libraries (ARL). In this role, Katherine leads the Association's information policy and advocacy portfolio which includes accessibility, balanced copyright, and online speech... Read More →
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Roy Kaufman

Managing Director, Business Development, Copyright Clearance Center
Roy Kaufman is Managing Director of both Business Development and Government Relations for Copyright Clearance Center. Prior to CCC, Kaufman served as Legal Director, John Wiley and Sons, Inc. He is a member of, among other things, the Bar of the State of New York, the Author’s... Read More →
Thursday September 17, 2026 1:45pm - 3:00pm EDT
Online
  Track 1

1:45pm EDT

Describing Things That Are Important—with AI-Ready Metadata and More
Thursday September 17, 2026 1:45pm - 3:00pm EDT
Online
For every type of content, there is an equally important metadata structure to describe, discover, and exchange that content. Maintaining these models over time is a critical part of the standards process—and AI is now driving some of the most significant changes yet. This session will explore what updates are needed to the basic metadata models that make research content findable, accessible, and reusable, as adoption of AI technologies reshapes how that content is described, discovered, and used.
Speakers
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Keondra Bailey

Standards Program Manager, NISO

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Robert Heaton

Collection Management Librarian, EBSCO Information Services
Looking for answers: How will we keep paying for all this stuff? How are we going to archive all this digital stuff? How can we align author incentives, the publishing marketplace, and the future of the scholarly record? When will libraries benefit from well-designed free software... Read More →
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Noah Levin

Co-Chair NISO KBART Standing Committee, Springer Publishing

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Geoffrey Morse

Head, Research Services, Northwestern University Libraries

Thursday September 17, 2026 1:45pm - 3:00pm EDT
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  Track 2

3:15pm EDT

Closing Keynote: Knowledge Has a New Address
Thursday September 17, 2026 3:15pm - 4:15pm EDT
Online
Fifty years after Gutenberg, at the end of the incunabular or infant age of print, books took on the characteristics we now know: titles, title pages, page numbers. Thus, for the first time, information had a standard address, facilitatating conversation. In the age of AI, information is again disaggregated from its addresses, words transformed into numeric tokens and data about the vectors among them. There is no recapturing the standards of print in AI. I hope this audience can address challenges in a new light, rethinking copyright; examining the moral responsibility journalists, authors, and academics have to inform public discourse (who wants stupid AI?); understanding publishers' self-interest in being read, used, and cited by AI; and importantly mediating fair systems for crediting—and, yes, supporting—sources. 
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Jeff Jarvis

Visiting Professor, Stony Brook University
Jeff Jarvis is the Emeritus Tow Professor of Journalism Innovation at CUNY's Newmark Graduate School of Journalism, a Visiting Professor at Stony Brook University, and a Distinguished Fellow at Montclair State University. Widely known for his commentary on media, the Internet, and... Read More →
Thursday September 17, 2026 3:15pm - 4:15pm EDT
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  Plenary

4:15pm EDT

Conference Closing Remarks
Thursday September 17, 2026 4:15pm - 4:30pm EDT
Online
Join NISO Director Todd Carpenter for closing remarks for the 2026 NISO Plus Global/Online Conference.


Speakers
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Todd Carpenter

Executive Director, NISO
Todd Carpenter currently serves as Executive Director of the National Information Standards Organization (NISO), a non-profit association that develops and maintains standards for the creation, persistent management, and effective interchange of information. In this role, he works... Read More →
Thursday September 17, 2026 4:15pm - 4:30pm EDT
Online
  Plenary
 

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