An overview of the 2023 NISO Plus Conference: Global conversations/global connections
This paper offers an overview of some of the highlights of the 2023 NISO Plus Annual Conference that was held virtually from February 14–February 16, 2023. This was the fourth such conference and the third to be held in a completely virtual format due to ...
Unanticipating metadata: Metadata in the ages of the internet and AI
This article is based upon the open plenary talk given at the NISO Plus Conference on February 14, 2023. David Weinberger, an American author, technologist, and speaker, explores the effect of the Internet and AI on metadata. He discusses how traditional ...
Unlocking potential: Harnessing the power of metadata for discoverability and accessibility
Metadata plays a crucial role in organizing, discovering, and accessing publications and products. This paper explores the complex metadata ecosystem and its impact on downstream functions. Focusing on author-provided metadata, it addresses the ...
Telling a story with metadata or Always drink upstream from the herd: What if your metadata isn’t properly represented in the stream?
Practice research encompasses diverse disciplines and outputs beyond traditional text-based scholarly work. However, existing infrastructure often overlooks the nuances of practice research, hindering its discoverability and reuse. This article ...
Reframing the returns on metadata investments through discoverability, usage, and analytics
The interactions among metadata, content discoverability, and content usage have been undervalued by publishers for years. Despite the regular exhortations by librarians to encourage publishers to develop a good metadata program, it remains very ...
Minding the gap: Bibliometric equity in theology and religious studies
The scholarly communications ecosystem in theology and religious studies differs significantly from other disciplines. In this paper, we draw on a multi-year investigation at Vanderbilt University as well as a practitioner’s perspective at the Center of ...
A tiny library with a million volumes: Open-source resource sharing with fulfillment interlibrary loan (ILL)
his paper is based upon a lightning talk given at the NISO Plus conference on February 14, 2023 and it describes interlibrary Loan syste4m, Fulfillment, developed by the Equinox Open Library Initiative. A thriving resource-sharing consortium allows ...
The use of blockchain technology in the scientific research workflow
This paper is based upon a lightening talk that was given on February 14, 2023 at the 2023 NISO Plus conference. The presentation described the research for the creation of a white paper on the use of blockchain technology along the scientific research ...
Moving from piecemeal to systematic: Reprioritizing how academic libraries approach research information management
This paper is based on a lightening talk given at the 2023 NISO Plus conference. The authors explore how research information management (RIM) workflows at universities are increasingly intersecting with library workflows, particularly regarding ...
Collaborating to implement SeamlessAccess: A library’s perspective
In the past two years an ever-increasing number of publishers have implemented SeamlessAccess resulting in a better user experience and increased usage. However, to ensure more users benefit from federated authentication and seamless access more ...
Implementing and assessing Seamlessaccess: A publisher’s experience
This essay provides insights into a publisher’s perspective on implementing and evaluating SeamlessAccess, a collaborative initiative that facilitates seamless access to scholarly resources subscribed by libraries. The essay outlines the motivations ...
Making data citations machine readable in article and other content metadata
Research data is essential to the production of research, and is increasingly made available in repositories for reuse and reproducing research. Data citations play a crucial role in connecting this data to journal articles, and also to acknowledge and ...
Decolonizing standards
This paper is based upon the Miles Conrad Lecture presented by Dr. Safiya Umoja Noble at the 2023 NISO Plus conference on February 15, 2023. Through her writing, Speaking, and advocacy, Dr. Noble has drawn attention to the extensive biases and embedded ...
Unlocking open science in Africa: Mentorship and grassroot community building
Open Science is becoming increasingly popular among scientists worldwide, but African researchers have hesitated to adopt it. This keynote speech addresses the current state of open science in Africa and the challenges researchers face in implementing ...
OA usage reporting: Understanding stakeholder needs and advancing trust through shared infrastructure
The complexity of usage reporting for Open Access (OA) content continues to grow, particularly with content syndication to organizations such as ScienceDirect and ResearchGate, which deliver content across multiple platforms at an unprecedented scale. ...
NISO's Content Profile/Linked Document standard: A research communication format for today’s scholarly ecosystem
This paper is based upon the author’s presentation at the 2023 NISO Plus Conference in which he discussed the purpose and importance of the NISO Content Profile/Linked Document standard. The need for the standard is obvious: users demand the delivery of ...
Open access and COUNTER usage: Hybrid OA impact on a Private Liberal Arts College
The popularity of open access (OA) publications has increased in recent years. This situation leads to several pertinent questions for academic libraries: Is the rapid expansion of OA availability negatively affecting their COUNTER usage reports? And, as ...
Recognizing and harnessing the transformational power of persistent identifiers (PIDs) for publicly-engaged scholars
While more recognizable publishing models continue to be favored across academic research and publishing systems, the diverse forms of knowledge emerging from publicly-engaged projects derived from working directly with and for communities requires novel ...
Closing the gap: Addressing missing standards in small academic libraries through the implementation of the ANSI/NISO Z39.87-2006 (R2017) data dictionary
This paper presents a case study highlighting the significance of adopting the ANSI/NISO Z39.87-2006 (R2017) Data Dictionary standard to small academic libraries, using Goldey-Beacom College Library in Wilmington, Delaware, as an example. The study ...
Sharing, curation and metadata as essential components of the data management plan
This paper stresses the critical importance that data management plans actually be data management and sharing plans, that encourage data-sharing at the early stages of research; that indicate that data must be made as open as possible (and as closed as ...
Engaging with NISO
This paper provides an overview of the National Information Standards Organization (NISO) - who it is, how it is structured, what it does, how it does it, and who it serves. It also provides information on how NISO Members and non-Members alike can ...