**Apologies for cross posting**

We’re counting the days till this year’s NISO Plus conference (February 15-17) — and we hope you are too! If you haven’t already done so, there’s still time to register and, thanks to our generous sponsors, we’ve been able to keep registration costs low for everyone, with extra discounts for NISO members; groups of five or more; students, early career, and unemployed professionals; and those who live outside the top 30 International Monetary Fund GDP countries. 

The NISO Plus program is now final, and there’s something for everyone!

• Keynotes by three respected academics — Dariusz Jemielniak on Collaborative Society Needs Institutional Support; Katharina Ruckstuhl on Pluriversal Approaches to Research Infrastructure, and Siva Vaidhyanathan on Welcome to the Metaverse…,

• The 2022 Miles Conrad Lecture, by Dr. Patricia Brennan, Director of the US National Library of Medicine

• Expert speakers from around the world, on a variety of timely topics for the information community including, from the library world:

• Stacy Allison-Cassin (University of Toronto) on Indigenous Knowledge, Standards, and Knowledge Management

• AJ Boston (Murray State University) on OA Implementation Pain Points

• Catherine Mitchell (CDL) on Centering Interoperability in the Future of Library-Based Publishing

• Roger Schonfeld (ITHAKA) on Attributes of Sustainability

• Andromeda Yelton (San Jose State University) on AI and Machine Learning: Less Theory, More Practice

• And many more!

Unlike most conferences, at NISO Plus the emphasis is on conversations and connections. What the speakers share in their presentations and what you have to say in the discussions following the live screenings are both equally important — and both are focused on identifying concrete needs and projects that NISO can work with the community to address. Last year’s conference resulted in three new initiatives, all of which are now well underway: Communication of Retractions, Removals, and Expressions of Concern (CORREC) Recommended Practice; Controlled DIgital Lending; and Integrating Publisher and Repository Workflows to Improve Research Data-Article Links. We’ll be reporting back on these during NISO Plus too!

So please don’t delay — book your place at this year’s conference now, and we hope to see you there!

With best wishes

The NISO Team

NISO

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