NISO Plus Baltimore 2025

Mary Beth Barilla is NISO’s Director of Business Development and Communications, where she manages member communications and ensures NISO’s sustainability through growth in membership, sponsorship, events, and other funding sources. Prior to joining NISO, Mary Beth worked at the Society for Scholarly Publishing as Program Director, where she led volunteers to develop educational programming for the scholarly communications community. She has also worked at RedLink, Inc. as the Publisher Relations Director and in various sales and marketing roles at both commercial and university presses.

I currently lead a team of account managers and sales executives responsible for revenue growth for our clients in North and South America focused on publishing, education, and media. I also lead M&A activities to identify and acquire software product and services companies that are accretive to the Impelsys mission.

Jeff is a Technical information Specialist at the National Center for Biotechnology Information at the US National Library of Medicine. He has been involved in the PubMed Central project since it began in 2000. He has been working in print and then electronic journal publishing since the early 1990s. Currently he is co-chair of the NISO Z39.96 JATS Standing Committee and is a BELS-certified Editor in the Life Sciences.

Executive leader with a demonstrated history of working in higher education, library, IT, and data sectors. Skilled in AI, emerging tech, data management, archival and library research, innovation management, product/program management, and team building.

Katherine Brooks is a Collection Analysis Librarian at Columbia University. She has worked at academic institutions for over 14 years, first as an evolutionary biologist and college instructor, and currently as a science librarian and collections analyst. In her role in the Columbia University Libraries, Katherine analyzes electronic resource usage data to inform strategic collections development & management. She is keenly interested in collections strategies and contributes to institutional collection priorities through her work on the Libraries’s Collections Strategies Team, Open Access Team, and Ebooks Team... Read more

Let's talk content structure, metadata, NISO STS. I really want to hear the business challenges publishers face around content discovery.

Collaborative, industry-wide initiatives. More specifically: the OA Switchboard.

Yvonne Campfens has over 25 years in publishing and related service sectors, with a Masters in applied econometrics from University of Amsterdam (1993). Early in her career she held a publishing position at Elsevier Science and thereafter various positions at Swets Subscription Service, including in publisher relations and as business partner to ALPSP in managing the ALJC (ALPSP Learned Journals Collection). From 2007 – 2012 she led the on-boarding of learned society publishing partners at Springer Nature, and was a co-founder of the TRANSFER Code of Practice. After running the Dutch language... Read more

Wine, food, wine, Standards, running, wine, food, wine.

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Established in 1872, HARRASSOWITZ has been serving libraries around the world for 150 years. Our customers value us for the quality and accuracy of our services and for our industry-leading and innovative solutions. We specialize in providing a comprehensive range of high-quality acquisitions and collection development support services to academic and research libraries.

NASIG All-timer. Buffalo sports. Mysteries.

My team provides serves to a Health System in several states with 12 hospitals, over 150 physician practices, home health, Health Plans and Sentara College of Health Sciences which has programs from the associate to master's level. I am very involved the many councils in the system including the; education, Continuing Medical Education, Ethics, Research, Curriculum Review and Academic Assessment at the college. and 

I have been in product management at Elsevier for seven years, working mostly on our flagship online search and discovery products ScienceDirect and Scopus. In recent years I’ve led efforts to develop new ways of integrating supplementary data into online articles, establish linkages between articles and research data in repositories and dynamically integrate external data into articles. I'm part of the team leading our explorations into facilitating text mining for curation and research purposes, working extensively with researchers from around the world to get them content for text mining and... Read more

In my job, I analyze and document user needs, then find solutions for Maguire Medical Library access and training. Through clarifying, troubleshooting, and resolving access and systems issues, I facilitate efficient workflows.

Ray Farmer is part of the Chronicle's Content Revenue team and leads site license business operations. He manages a team that supports librarians, site license users, subscription agencies and consortia managers in accessing the Chronicle's digital content and related products.  As a first time attendee, Ray is looking forward to sharing updates on the higher education marketplace from the Chronicle's recently released Trends Report and upcoming innovations to the Chronicle brand.

Noam Fass – Product Manager
Working for Ex Libris for the past 7 years, originally based in Jerusalem (Ex Libris headquarters), now living with my family in Connecticut.
As a graduate of Industrial Design studies, I believe in user centered design and always try to listen to sentiment of the community and utilize its power to validate my assumptions.
I aim to please and derive great satisfaction knowing that the work I do has direct and indirect impact on so many people, specifically when communicating with members of the community, listening to their pain points and transforming their desires into reality. I love spending time with my family, hiking and biking... Read more

John is currently the Head of Information Technology and Collections at Coastal Carolina University.  He has worked in academic library technology for over 30 years and is a former patent holder and co-founder of Journal Finder, the first OpenURL Resolver and knowledge base to go into production in the United States.  He is a member of the SeamlessAccess Outreach Committee and the Scholarly Network Security Initiative (SNSI) University Relations Group.

Répertoire International de Littérature Musicale (RILM) is committed to documenting the world’s knowledge about all musical traditions, and to making this knowledge accessible to research and performance communities worldwide via digital collections and advanced tools. RILM’s collections aim to include the music scholarship of all countries, in all languages, and across all disciplinary and cultural boundaries, thereby fostering research in the arts, humanities, sciences, and social sciences.

Jason Griffey is the Director of Strategic Initiatives at NISO, where he works to identify new areas of the information ecosystem where standards expertise is useful and needed, and leads ongoing projects such as NISO’s participation in the Coalition for Seamless Access. Prior to joining NISO in 2019, Jason ran his own technology consulting company for libraries, has been both an Affiliate at metaLAB and a Fellow and Affiliate at the Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University, and was an academic librarian in roles ranging from reference and instruction to Head of IT a... Read more

I am MD of Technology from Sage, a portfolio of library services owned by Sage Publishing. Tools include Talis, covering reading lists, ereserves and social annotation, Lean Library, a library discovery and patron engagement tool, and Sciwheel, an authoring and reference management tool.

Would love to learn more about library perspectives on areas such as:

Affordability and Equitable Access,OER,Decolonization and DEI,Patron Engagement,and Library Discovery.
This is my first CNI and I'm really looking forward to meeting everyone!

If you are curious about taxonomies and their implementation Margie is the one to talk with. She is presently convener of the ISO 25964 Information and documentation — Thesauri and interoperability with other vocabularies — Part 1: Thesauri for information retrieval, management, and use. She contributed to the Z39.19 2005 Controlled Vocabulary,  Z39.85 Dublin Core standard development teams. She also created the taxonomy for the CrEdit standard, worked on the Z39.104 Standard  Specific Ontology for Standards, (SSOS), the DOI Syntax and DOI Contributed Metadata set, Open URL Standard Advisor, NISO Z39.88, and others.   Marjorie M.K. Hlava is Chief Scientist, Chairman, and founder of Access Innovations, Inc. She served on the NISO board for five years and the NISO Content Board. She is past president several organizations; NFAIS (2002-2003), American Society for Information Scienc... Read more

Athena Hoeppner is the Discovery Services Librarian at the University of Central Florida, in Orlando, Florida, and currently serving as Interim Associate Dean for Resources and Discovery. She has served UCF Libraries for over 29 years, with roles in public services, systems, and technical services. For the last two decades her work focused on the eResources lifecycle, collection building, assessment, discovery, access, and UX. Athena's recent projects explore information standards, metrics, and technologies to improve library and vendor operations and enhance access to content for individuals... Read more

Cindy Hohl, MBA/MLIS, is a member of the Santee Sioux Nation and director of policy analysis and operational support at the Kansas City Public Library She is a past president of the American Indian Library Association and committed to focusing her work around creating welcoming spaces where library workers know that they belong there. In her work on the DEIA committee with the National Information Standards Organization and as a North American representative to the International Federation of Library Associations Indigenous Matters Section she works with librarians to share information across... Read more

Jennifer is Director of Consulting Services at Stratos (Strategies for Open Science). She was most recently Head of Partnerships at Crossref, where she worked with funders, publishers, service providers and API users to improve community participation, metadata and discoverability. Prior to Crossref, Jennifer was Senior Manager of Policy and External Relations, North America for Springer Nature. Jennifer started her career as a librarian before joining HighWire Press where she worked with a wide variety of scholarly publishers. She is active in the research support community and serves as Co-chair... Read more

RIPM preserves and provides access to eighteenth-, nineteenth- and twentieth-century periodical literature dealing with music and facilitates and encourages research based on this previously-neglected documentary resource.

I've seen OpenAthens grow from an access management service exclusively serving the UK academic community, to a set of products and services used in more than 50 countries by over four million users working and studying in academic, healthcare, government and commercial organisations. OpenAthens products and services are also used by all the major publishing groups, and many of the smaller ones.

Come and talk to me about how OpenAthens can help provide secure, personalized access to online subscription content whether you represent an institution or a publisher.

Talk to me about JATS, XSLT, usability, metadata, persistent identifiers, standards, content management, project management. I\'m interested in forming connections and identifying opportunities.

Tim Lloyd is founder and CEO of LibLynx, a company providing Identity, Access & Analytics solutions for online resources. His career spans several decades in a variety of product development and operational roles in online publishing, with a particular focus on developing innovative products and services to support online learning and research. Tim is a member of the Governance committee of SeamlessAccess.org and co-chair of the Outreach committee, a member of STM's Researcher Identity working group, and served on the Project COUNTER working group on OA/unpaywalled reporting and the OA Switchboard's... Read more

I am interested in your challenges in and ideas for the creation, discovery and use of content in all formats. As a consultant I work with all stakeholders in scholarly publishing including societies, vendors, publishers, funders and libraries.

Kate McCready (she/her/hers) is the Visiting Program Officer for Academy Owned Scholarly Publishing at the Big Ten Academic Alliance. In this role, Kate is leading the development of a vision for a multifaceted, sustainable course of action to strengthen academy-owned publishing for the BTAA. This work is part of the development of the Library Initiatives’ BIG Collection, which aims to manage the separate collections of the Big Ten university libraries as a single collection. Her home institution, where she has served in a variety of roles including the interim associate university librarian

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Kathryn Miller is a Publishing Services Librarian with the Information Services Office. Kathryn's work at NIST includes coordinating the production, dissemination, marketing, bibliographic control, and impact assessment activities related to the publishing of the NIST Technical Series Publications. Kathryn's role also focuses on library user experience and developing library training programs. Through this work, Kathryn developed a passion for information accessibility, including a commitment to inclusive language and accessible content. She has an MLIS from the University of Maryland and is... Read more

Rob is Director of Publishing at The Rockefeller University Press, publisher of The Journal of Cell Biology, The Journal of Experimental Medicine, and The Journal of General Physiology. He oversees all production-related workflows and drives technological innovation. Drawing from over two decades of STM experience, Rob is responsible for keeping abreast of and evaluating current publishing initiatives, policies, and technical standards, threading them together and architecting workflows that fit RUP’s infrastructure.

Katy O’Neill is the Associate Director of Research and Technology Servcies at the Loyola Notre Dame Library in Baltimore, Maryland. Katy has co-authored a three year technology plan with a colleague from Loyola University Maryland’s Office of Technology Services and redefined financial management practices to provide the Library’s Board of Directors with information to better inform decision-making. She is currently working with colleagues to renovate library spaces in support of active learning priorities. Her current interests focus on engaging students in digital scholarship, transforming... Read more

Victoria Owen holds a joint appointment as Information Policy Scholar-Practitioner in the Faculty of Information at the University of Toronto and as Special Advisor to the Dean on Information Accessibility at UTSC. Her particular focus encompasses copyright, access, accessibility, human rights, and the public interest. Her background is in library administration in academic, special and public libraries, including the University of Toronto and the CNIB Library for the Blind. Victoria holds a Master’s in Library Science and a Master’s in Law, specializing in intellectual property. She serves...

Bobbi Patham is the Manager of Discovery & Discovery Services at Springer Nature. She has over 15+ years of experience in content management, metadata standards, subject classification and bibliographic collection. She earned a Bachelor's degree in Chemistry and a Master's degree in Library and Information Science. She is currently serving in the NISO KBART & ODI Standing Committees.
To learn about the Springer Nature Discovery, please visit www.springer.com/discovery or contact at Discovery@springernature.com

Hello. I am the Digital Projects Librarian at Stony Brook University. Chat with me about building digital collections, music, hiking, cats, and art. I have a BFA in Printmaking and I love to talk about copyright, even though I'm not a lawyer.

I am Wiley's resident librarian and provide insight on metadata sharing strategies for optimizing its electronic resources for discovery, access, and usage. This includes working closely with librarians and library solutions providers alike to get the tools they need to help the end-user. I also moonlight as a reference and instruction librarian My interests are cataloging, metadata, data standards, and user experience.

Head of Scholarly Communication. Stony Brook University Libraries.

Kristen Ratan is the Principal of Strategies for Open Science (Stratos), working with open science funders, advocates, and infrastructure providers to produce tangible results towards open scholarship. Kristen has a 20+ year history working to accelerate advances in science and research communication through work at Coko, PLOS, HighWire, Atypon, and BIOSIS. Kristen is on the boards of the American Institute of Physics Publishing, Rapid Science, and ASAPbio and advisory boards of Invest in Open Infrastructure (IOI), MIT Press, Stencila, DataSeer, and PREreview.

Howard is the Executive Director of CHORUS. Over the past two decades, he played a key role in developing innovative technology solutions that have transformed scholarly communications. He co-founded and chaired ORCID – Open Researcher and Contributor ID system, and was active in the establishment of the Digital Object Identifier (DOI) and the founding and technical development of Crossref and CLOCKSS. He was President of the Society for Scholarly Publishing (SSP) from 2014-2015 and served on its board from 2010-2012 and 2013-2016. He is co-chair of the Metadata 2020 Best Practices and Principle... Read more

I manage copyright and publishing rights at World Bank Publications. At the moment my focus is building on the success of the World Bank’s Open Access Policy, as well as educating my colleagues about copyright in the open access environment.

I enjoy investing in people and their success above all. I value the work of NISO, and I look forward to joining you for the conference! I've been with CAS for 35 years in a variety of roles, including Content, ACS Publications, Finance,  HR, and Marketing, and I'm proud of our work to improve people's lives and enable scientific innovation.

CAS is a leader in scientific information solutions, partnering with innovators around the world to accelerate scientific breakthroughs. CAS employs over 1,400 experts who curate, connect, and analyze scientific knowledge to reveal unseen connections. For... Read more

Mary Sauer-Games is Chief Product Officer at OCLC. She joined OCLC in September 2014.

She came to OCLC from the American Psychological Association, where she was Senior Director, managing PsycINFO database products and leading an organization of 70 staff. From 2002 to February 2014, she was Vice President, Product Management–Humanities, STM and Dissertations at ProQuest, a leading global information provider. Before that, from 1999 through 2002, she was Vice President, Product Management, at the Gale Group, a major reference and education publisher of electronic databases and textbooks. She previously held positions at Mullen Advertising, R. L. Polk and Company, and Data Resources

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Hi! I'm the Vice President of North American Library Relations. I'm interested in learning about your experiences with Elsevier and how we can support your library better.

Robin is Director of Collections and Open Strategies at Iowa State University. This position merges collections and scholarly communications work. My goal is to support research and learning at ISU while moving academic publishing to a more open system. In addition to purchasing and licensing content for ISU researchers and students, we also support open publishing by ISU researchers, open content used by our community, and open infrastructure programs that make this possible.
Robin has an MS in librarianship from Drexel University. She previously worked at the Academy of Natural Sciences Academy Library, University of Toledo Carlson Library, Bowling Green State University Libraries, and Johns Hopkins University Sheridan Libraries... Read more

I'm a consultant for scholarly publishers and vendors, and I am also Director of Community Engagement for the Delta Think Open Access Data & Analytics Tool. In my spare time I write musicals about metadata!

Ask me about metadata at Project MUSE! I get into the weeds (to help libraries with their holdings information and ensure that our discovery partners have the right data) but I also like to think about the big picture. So, if you have problems or ideas, let me know!

Anita de Waard has a background in experimental physics. She joined Elsevier as publisher in physics and neurology in 1988, and currently works as a VP for research collaborations, with a focus on establishing collaborations between Elsevier and academic groups in information and computer science. From January 2006 onwards, she has been working on this topic as a part-time researcher at the University of Utrecht, funded by a Casimir project grant by the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research. She is a co-founder of Force11, a multi-stakeholder organisation to invent the future of scholarly... Read more

Jasmine Wallace is the Senior Production Manager at the Public Library of Science (PLOS).  She is responsible for the production processes and day to day production and publication operations for the PLOS journal portfolio. Previously, she was the Peer Review Manager at the American Society for Microbiology (ASM). She was responsible for ensuring peer review practices, workflow, processes, and policies were up-to-date and applied consistently across the entire portfolio of journals. She currently serves as Treasurer for the Council of Science Editors and is the creator and host of their podcast series S.P.E.A.K

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I'm AUL for Publishing at University of Michigan Library and Director of University of Michigan Press. I'm particularly interested in next-gen institutional repositories, the future of ebook collections and acquisitions, and how books can also get to participate in the networked digital environment (which includes business models to make them open access)

Dr. Kari D. Weaver (she/her) holds her Master’s in Library and Information Science from the University of Rhode Island and her Doctorate in Education in Curriculum & Instruction from the University of South Carolina. Since 2017 she has worked as the Learning, Teaching, and Instructional Design Librarian at the University of Waterloo Library. Her research centers on the intersection of human information behaviour and pedagogy and covers a wide range of topics including academic integrity, teaching to identify misinformation, graduate student research experiences, online learning, and digital...

Emma Wilson-Shaw has 20+ years of experience in UK academic libraries; working with e-resources, authentication, systems and as a reference librarian. Currently, she's the e-Resource Manager for OpenAthens, where she works with libraries, publishers, and service providers to ensure a smooth user journey to content.