November 2023
NISO Webinar
Strategic Planning
Wednesday, November 8, 2023, 11:00am - 12:30pm (Eastern Standard Time, US & Canada)
Every organization and institution is faced with the challenge of thoughtfully planning for the future, both known and unknown. This roundtable discussion will help you answer the question, What is the five year plan? What data, which forecasts are needed to properly formulate a strategic plan, the road map for moving your organization forward? Is there a proven template? Or is there some secret formula, a special approach that the best leaders have already mastered? If every organization needs a five year plan, why isn’t the process easier, more effective, less time-consuming? This stimulating discussion between some of our industry leaders will likely generate as many questions as answers, but that too may help you move forward.
Confirmed speakers (others TBA) include Jonathan Clark, Principal, Independent Consultant and Managing Agent, DOI Foundation, and Rhonda Ross, Assistant Director, Marketing Programs Management, CAS, a division of the American Chemical Society.
NISO Open Teleconference
November 13 Open Teleconference: Manuscript Exchange Common Approach (MECA)
Monday, November 13, 2023, 3:00pm - 4:00pm (Eastern Standard Time, US & Canada)
The next NISO Open Teleconference will be held Monday, November 13 at 3:00 PM Eastern time. The topic for this call will be NISO's Manuscript Exchange Common Approach (MECA) Standing Committee, which works to support and explore future requirements for NISO RP-30-2020, Manuscript Exchange Common Approach (MECA) Recommended Practice.
All NISO Open Teleconferences are open to everyone!
Working group co-chairs Tony Alves and Stephen Laverick will join NISO staff to discuss the need for MECA, how it works, and what's happening now in the regular meetings of the Standing Committee.
The MECA Recommended Practice provides a common means to easily transfer manuscripts between manuscript systems, such as those in use at publishers and preprint servers. Previously, in workflow processes such as manuscript rejection or alternate recommendation for article submission, there was no straightforward way for a manuscript to move programmatically from one publisher system to another's. Use of MECA obviates frustration for authors and reviewers who complained of wasted time and delays in enabling access to new research. The MECA open protocol supports improved publishing operations and stakeholder communication.
December 2023
NISO Open Teleconference
December 11 Open Teleconference: JATS (Journal Article Tag Suite)
Monday, December 11, 2023, 3:00pm - 4:00pm (Eastern Standard Time, US & Canada)
Co-chairs of the NISO JATS Standing Committee, Jeff Beck and Tommie Usdin, will join Nettie Lagace in a discussion about the standard and the current activities of the Standing Committee which maintains it.
The Journal Article Tag Suite (JATS) is an XML format used to describe scientific literature published online. It is a technical standard developed by the National Information Standards Organization (NISO) and approved by the American National Standards Institute with the code Z39.96-2021 (Version 1.3 published earlier this year). The NISO project was a continuation of the work done by NLM/NCBI, and popularized by the NLM's PubMed Central as a de facto standard for archiving and interchange of scientific open-access journals and its contents with XML.
The JATS provides a set of XML elements and attributes for describing the textual and graphical content of journal articles as well as some non-article material such as letters, editorials, and book and product reviews. JATS allows for descriptions of the full article content or just the article header metadata; and allows other kinds of contents, including research and non-research articles, letters, editorials, and book and product reviews.
NISO Webinar
Trend Spotting, Trend Setting
Wednesday, December 13, 2023, 11:00am - 12:30pm (Eastern Standard Time, US & Canada)
In a decade that has already tested our resiliency, what should we be anticipating and preparing for in the coming year? Join this discussion of the shifts and trends that information industry leaders are picking up on. Where are the opportunities to be found? Which genius will come up with and develop the Next Big Thing? Or, perhaps we shouldn’t be thinking in terms of the Next Big Thing. Maybe our speakers will decide that 2024 is the year that we look around at the variety of cogs and wheels we already have and invite our colleagues to dream about constructing a better mousetrap.
Confirmed speakers (Others TBA): Karin Wulf, Beatrice and Julio Mario Santo Domingo Director and Librarian of the John Carter Brown Library, Professor of History, Brown University; and Alice Denby, Vice President, Journals, Oxford University Press.