NISO Plus 2026 Global/Online

NISO Plus 2026 Global/Online

9:30am EDT

Conference Welcome

Wednesday September 16, 2026 9:30am - 9:45am EDT

Speakers

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 →

Mary Beth Barilla

Director of Business Development and Communication, NISO

Wednesday September 16, 2026 9:30am - 9:45am EDT
Online

Plenary

9:45am EDT

From Persistent Identifiers to Persistent Intelligence: How DOCiD Connects Human Knowledge, AI Systems, and Research Trust Through Standards

Wednesday September 16, 2026 9:45am - 10:45am EDT

As AI systems increasingly consume, interpret, and generate scholarly information, the challenge is no longer simply identifying research outputs—it is preserving provenance, context, relationships, ownership, and trust. Traditional PID infrastructures identify people, publications, datasets, grants, and organizations, but AI systems require richer, machine-actionable relationships between these...
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Speakers

Joy Owango

Executive Director, Training Centre in Communication & Project Lead, Training Centre in Communication

Joy Owango is the Executive Director of TCC Africa, an award-winning trust established in 2006 to strengthen research capacity, scholarly communication, and Open Science across Africa. Over the years, she has become a recognized leader in advancing research visibility, digital research infrastructure, and equitable participation... Read More →

Wednesday September 16, 2026 9:45am - 10:45am EDT
Online

Plenary

11:00am EDT

Provenance and Citation UX in GenAI Systems

Wednesday September 16, 2026 11:00am - 12:15pm EDT

With the growing role of agentic AI in the discovery and delivery of content, we find ourselves in a shift from human to computer readership. In this new environment, how can we embed provenance and attribution into AI systems? Without attribution and citation in outputs, how can we track usage? The session will also explore what is needed from the AI development community and how the content...
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Speakers

Monica Granados

Open Climate Campaign Manager, Creative Commons

Dr. Monica Granados has a PhD in ecology from McGill University. While working on her PhD, Monica discovered that incentives in academia promote practices that make knowledge less accessible. Since then, Monica has devoted her career to working in the open science space in pursuit... Read More →

Wednesday September 16, 2026 11:00am - 12:15pm EDT
Online

Track 1

11:00am EDT

Let's Set the Scholarly Record Straight: Using Trust Markers, CREC, and More to Support Research Integrity

Wednesday September 16, 2026 11:00am - 12:15pm EDT

Retractions, whatever their cause, have long been a concern in scholarly communications. The adoption and evolution of AI technologies have made this problem even more urgent, driving growth in the number of fraudulent papers. At the same time, misinformation has led many to distrust science. In this session, speakers and participants will explore how to address retractions and removals, as well...
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Speakers

Toby Green

TrustMarc Executive, TrustMarc Initiative

Toby GREEN, Co-Founder and Executive for the TrustMarc Initiative is also a Co-Founder of Coherent Digital where he is the publisher for Policy Commons and Applied Science Commons. He has worked in scholarly, policy and professional publishing for more than 40 years, holding senior... Read More →

Wednesday September 16, 2026 11:00am - 12:15pm EDT
Online

Track 2

12:30pm EDT

Conference Social and Networking Event

Wednesday September 16, 2026 12:30pm - 1:30pm EDT

Wednesday September 16, 2026 12:30pm - 1:30pm EDT
Online

Social Event

1:45pm EDT

AI , Transparency, and Disclosure: Implementing Policies and Measuring Their Success

Wednesday September 16, 2026 1:45pm - 3:00pm EDT

With the implementation of AI tools to support writing and editorial processes well underway, the need for policies around transparency and disclosure of AI use has grown. In response, many institutions have developed AI policies for students, researchers, and staff, while publishers are increasingly demanding disclosure of AI usage. What goes into an ethical, transparent disclosure policy? What...
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Speakers

Kellyanna Bussell

Partner Success Manager, Wiley

Annette Flanagin

JAMA

David Haber

Russell Michalak

Director of Library and Archives, Goldey-Beacom College

Wednesday September 16, 2026 1:45pm - 3:00pm EDT
Online

Track 1

1:45pm EDT

Getting Moving on Federated Identity in Libraries

Wednesday September 16, 2026 1:45pm - 3:00pm EDT

Federated identity, which can provide a privacy-protecting method to accessing scholarly information, has been long available for libraries from most publishers, yet adoption across the community has been slow. What’s holding us back, and how can we move forward? Participants will be invited to share their experiences and how a pilot project to simplify the process could chart a path forward.

Speakers

John Felts

AUL for Information Technology and Collections, Coastal Carolina University

John is the Associate University Librarian for Information Technology and Collections at Coastal Carolina University. He has worked in academic library technology for over 30 years and is a former patent holder and co-founder of Journal Finder, the first OpenURL Resolver and knowledge... Read More →

Wednesday September 16, 2026 1:45pm - 3:00pm EDT
Online

Track 2

3:15pm EDT

Managing AI Access to Content, or Keeping the Robots in Line: The Sequel

Wednesday September 16, 2026 3:15pm - 4:30pm EDT

Agentic AI offers new opportunities for publishers licensing content and for researchers engaged in text or data mining across a collection or corpus. Access to that content, however, also poses challenges for publishers and platforms who want to allow access to those entitled to it, whether through a subscription or license, while keeping out unwanted agents. Agentic AI also complicates how we...
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Speakers

Allen Jones

Senior Director, Digital Library and Technical Services, The New School

Allen Jones is the senior director of Digital Library and Technical Services at The New School Libraries & Archives in New York City. Allen works with a number of Ex Libris products at The New School, including Alma, Alma-D, Primo, Leganto, Rapido, Rialto, and Library Open Workflows... Read More →

Tasha Mellins-Cohen

Executive Director, COUNTER Metrics

Todd Toler

ITHAKA S+R

Wednesday September 16, 2026 3:15pm - 4:30pm EDT
Online

Track 1

3:15pm EDT

The Next Chapter for CCLIP: From Recommended Practice to Reality

Wednesday September 16, 2026 3:15pm - 4:30pm EDT

The Collaborative Collections Lifecycle Infrastructure Project (CCLIP) Recommended Practice was published this spring. After several years of working to document and offer guidance on how to effectively collaborate, we must now move on to implementation. Building upon the Recommended Practice, several projects are working to build tools and models for inter-library collaboration. Join us to learn...
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Speakers

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 →

Sebastian Hammer

President and Co-Founder, Index Data

Co-founder of Index Data. Passionate about interoperable systems and collaborative software projects. I have worked with library technology for the better part of three decades.

Boaz Nadav Manes

University Librarian, Lehigh University

Boaz Nadav-Manes is Lehigh University Librarian. He develops services, programs and activities with campus and community partners that lead to the success of students, faculty, staff, and broader community members. In addition, Boaz provides leadership and overall direction to the... Read More →

Wednesday September 16, 2026 3:15pm - 4:30pm EDT
Online

Track 2

9:30am EDT

Accessible Content at Scale: AI Tools and Community Responses

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

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...
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Speakers

Jeff Lang

Founder & CEO, FigureTwo

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

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...
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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

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...
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Speakers

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

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.

Speakers

Titusz Pan

John Chodacki

California Digital Library

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

Track 2

12:30pm EDT

Lunch á la Carte: Lightning Presentations

Thursday September 17, 2026 12:30pm - 1:30pm EDT

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

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...
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Speakers

Steve Smith

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 →

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

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,...
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Speakers

Keondra Bailey

Standards Program Manager, NISO

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 →

Noah Levin

Co-Chair NISO KBART Standing Committee, Springer Publishing

Geoffrey Morse

Head, Research Services, Northwestern University Libraries

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

Track 2

3:15pm EDT

Closing Keynote: Knowledge Has a New Address

Thursday September 17, 2026 3:15pm - 4:15pm EDT

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...
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Speakers

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
Online

Plenary

4:15pm EDT

Conference Closing Remarks

Thursday September 17, 2026 4:15pm - 4:30pm EDT

Join NISO Director Todd Carpenter for closing remarks for the 2026 NISO Plus Global/Online Conference.

Speakers

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