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Now Open: The Call for Proposal Submissions for NISO Plus Baltimore 2027

Now Open: The Call for Proposal Submissions for NISO Plus Baltimore 2027

July 2026

Our Planning Committee may be working hard on September's virtual NISO Plus Global/Online event, but a subcommittee is already looking ahead to our in-person meeting in Baltimore! We're opening the call for NISO Plus Baltimore proposals early to allow everyone enough time to submit an idea for our February 15–17, 2027 meeting in Charm City.

NISO Plus Baltimore brings together professionals from across the information community to identify shared challenges and brainstorming potential solutions. We invite proposals addressing a broad range of topics:

  • Accessibility
  • AI in scholarly communications
  • Measuring AI usage
  • MCPs and chatbots for researchers
  • AI-generated metadata and provenance
  • AI transparency and disclosure
  • AI tools and use cases
  • Cross-institutional collaboration models
  • Digital preservation
  • Diversity, equity, and inclusion in scholarly communications
  • Federated identity and access control systems
  • Licensing and copyright
  • Metadata and persistent identifiers
  • Open access models and business processes
  • Open data
  • Open scholarship infrastructure
  • Peer review
  • Political and financial pressures on scholarly communications and infrastructure
  • Research integrity
  • Search and discovery systems

Topics not listed here are welcome! We want to hear about what's important to you and your organization.

Keys to success

The NISO Plus Planning Committee will prioritize sessions that do the following:

  1. Offer a variety of viewpoints, whether from a demographic, organizational, or geographical perspective. We discourage proposals featuring speakers from only one organization.
  2. Include multiple speakers.
  3. Encourage interactivity, asking questions and promoting dialogue rather than simply presenting solutions. The purpose of the NISO Plus conference to focus on conversations about potential ideas to solve community problems. 

Please submit your proposal(s) by September 10, 2026. All submissions will be reviewed by the Planning Committee, and we will inform everyone of their decisions by October 5, 2026.