An overview of the 2024 NISO Plus Global Online Conference

Abstract

This paper offers an overview of some of the highlights of the 2024 NISO Plus Global Online Conference that was held September 17–September 18, 2024. This conference grew out of the virtual NISO Plus meetings that were held during the Pandemic. While NISO Plus conferences resumed in-person in February 2024, the global sessions were so successful that NISO held a purely virtual one later that same year. Speakers who could not usually travel to the USA are able to give their presentations virtually and the global conferences allow for a much wider net to be cast for speakers and attendees. The ultimate goal of the NISO Plus conferences is to have a discussion, identify information industry problems and, with the collective wisdom of the speakers and audience who are representative of the information industry stakeholders, generate potential solutions that NISO or others can develop. As with prior years, there was no general topical theme (although Open Science, Open Access, sustainable research, and scientific integrity were common threads), but there were topics of interest for everyone working in the information ecosystem—from the practical subjects of persistent identifiers, standards, metadata, data sharing, Open Science, and Open Access to the potential future of the research article and journals.