NISO Plus Baltimore 2025: Full Schedule

10:45am EST

Trends and Innovations in Peer Review

Tuesday February 11, 2025 10:45am - 12:00pm EST

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While peer review has long been a cornerstone of academic research, it is now in crisis, and traditional peer review models have been challenged due to a shortage of reviewers as well as concerns about transparency, fairness, and sustainability. In this session, speakers will share how they are each working in their respective organizations to promote a more transparent, equitable, and efficient peer review process that supports research i

Speakers

Beth Craanen

Senior Director, Global Editorial Operations, American Chemical Society

Beth Craanen currently serves as the Senior Director of Global Editorial Operations at the American Chemical Society, Beth orchestrates the strategic oversight of diverse business units, steering a team of 20 members towards sustainable growth and fiscal responsibility. Prior to her... Read More →

Anna Jester

Director, Business Development, Wiley

Anna Jester works in Business Development at Wiley Partner Solutions. She frequently finds herself discussing submission and peer review, editorial and production services, and workflow consulting. She's also quite fond of conversation dealing with gastronomic pursuits, Salukis, March... Read More →

Chirag "Jay" Patel

Head of Sales, Americas, Cactus Global

Jay Patel is a business development professional with Cactus Global and specializes in working with publishers and professional societies on the implementation of AI solutions. He wants to improve the user experience by utilizing AI to better classify content, make content easier... Read More →

Tuesday February 11, 2025 10:45am - 12:00pm EST
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1:30pm EST

Cost-per-what? Redefining the value of publishing services in an open science world

Tuesday February 11, 2025 1:30pm - 2:45pm EST

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With the accelerated push to an "open science future" in the last five years, the mixed-model economy dominating publisher/library discussions gets more complex and yet more reductive with each new model launched. As the ecosystem gets more complex, resource-strapped publishers and libraries are seeking new ways to evaluate the benefits of new models -- often resorting to reductive proxies. Many libraries publicly avow commitments to mission-aligned, transparent, equitable models but recoil at changes in pricing or services that enable that kind of investment. Are reductive, transactional conversations around proxies like "cost-per-article" the only means for evaluating "value" in an open science/open access context?

This panel discussion aims to provocatively delve into this question through the lens of non-profit publisher and librarian perspectives -- organizations that are mission-driven and yet also resource constrained.

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Speakers

Sara Rouhi

Director, Open Science and Publishing Innovation, AIP Publishing

Sara Rouhi is the Director of Open Science and Publishing Innovation at AIP Publishing. Driving AIPP’s open science strategy, she focuses on developing new publishing models and sustainable business strategies to accelerate AIPP’s mission to advance pragmatic, researcher-focused... Read More →

Katherine Brooks

Collection Analysis Librarian, Columbia University

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... Read More →

Robin N Sinn

Director, Collections and Open Strategies, Iowa State University

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... Read More →

Scott Delman

Director of Publications, Association for Computing Machinery

Scott Delman is the Director of Publications at the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), the world’s leading society in the field of Computing. In this role, he has overall responsibility for ACM’s Publications program, editorial and publishing strategy, sales and marketing... Read More →

Wendy Queen

Chief Transformation Officer, hopkins press

Wendy Queen is the Director of Project MUSE. Wendy was the Manager of Publishing Technologies at JHUP during the time when Project MUSE grew to become a leading provider of digital humanities and social sciences content. In addition to her work at MUSE, she also serves on the COUNTER... Read More →

Tuesday February 11, 2025 1:30pm - 2:45pm EST
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3:15pm EST

Improving the Kludge: Complexities of Open Access Usage Metrics

Tuesday February 11, 2025 3:15pm - 4:30pm EST

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The scholarly communications ecosystem has reached a tipping point where the value of open access (OA) content needs to be better measured and articulated by all stakeholders, including librarians, publishers, funders, and researchers. Research and educational organizations seek reliable means to assess their spending in support of OA. Funders need to demonstrate the benefits of the research projects they support.Publishers, meanwhile, seek to assess how organizations engage with their publications in key subject areas. These assessments must be credible, consistent, and comparable, echoing the principles established by COUNTER, but they should also help tell a story with data. What is missing from our industry is a recommended practice designed specifically to address the multi-faceted analysis needs of open access content.

This panel will introduce the current landscape of open access reporting, including the development and evolution of COUNTER Metrics, the COUNTER API (formerly SUSHI), and other reporting strategies used to assess OA usage. Following this introduction, the panel will facilitate a group discussion with the goal of identifying reporting gaps and opportunities to generate and communicate socially, financially, and academically meaningful metrics. Particular emphasis will be paid to the necessary metadata required to generate robust data for analysis.

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Speakers

Michelle Urberg

Client Success Manager, LibLynx

Athena Hoeppner

Interim Associate Dean for Resources and Discovery, University of Central Florida

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... Read More →

Kate McCready

Program Director for Open Publishing, Big Ten Academic Alliance

Kate McCready (she/her/hers) is the Program Director for Open Publishing at the Big Ten Academic Alliance's Center for Library Programs. In this role, Kate is leading the development of a vision for a multifaceted, sustainable course of action to strengthen academy-owned publishing... Read More →

Tuesday February 11, 2025 3:15pm - 4:30pm EST
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9:00am EST

Contemplating the Cookie Banner, and Other Tales from the SPARC Privacy and Surveillance Contract Language Working Group

Wednesday February 12, 2025 9:00am - 10:15am EST

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Over the past several years, libraries have been increasingly aware of threats posed to patron data privacy by the abundance of collection, storage, and sharing technologies used by vendor e-resource platforms. Compounding the problem is the vague, opaque, often confusing privacy language in vendor contracts, ranging from complex data processing addenda to linked privacy policies and third-party terms of use. Too often, this language serves to limit or nullify the data privacy protections that libraries try to implement.

In response to these concerns, SPARC’s Privacy & Surveillance Contract Language Working Group is developing a range of practical tools to help libraries negotiate agreements that support the needs of users and protect their personal data. These tools include a negotiation guide for librarians focusing on privacy protections; a data privacy addendum with clear expectations for vendors on handling of library patron data (with vendor feedback from the pilot stage); as well as comprehensive reports on the data privacy practices of multinational vendors such as Elsevier and Springer. This session will give an overview of the group’s work in this area, with time for a robust Q&A about data privacy and surveillance in digital libraries.

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Speakers

Molly Rainard

Licensing & Acquisitions Manager, Auraria Library

Chris Pusateri

E-Resources Acquisitions & Licensing Librarian, University of Colorado Boulder

Wednesday February 12, 2025 9:00am - 10:15am EST
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1:30pm EST

Lightning Talks

Wednesday February 12, 2025 1:30pm - 2:45pm EST

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Join this fast-paced session in which librarians, publishers, and tech/service providers have 5 minutes to tell you about a new product, idea, or process! Hear about the latest developments in the information community and share your questions and feedback.

Speakers

Esther Jackson

Scholarly Communication Technologies Librarian, Columbia University

Josh Dahl

SVP, Product + General Manager, ScholarOne, Silverchair

Josh Dahl is a seasoned leader in the scholarly publishing industry with over 20 years of experience and a proven track record of driving innovation and strategic growth in the academic and research sectors. Most recently, Josh served as the Senior Director of Product Management at... Read More →

Brian Ippolito

President/CEO, Contiem

Bill Kasdorf

Principal, Kasdorf & Associates, LLC

Bill Kasdorf, kasdorf.bill@gmail.com, is Principal of Kasdorf & Associates, LLC, focusing on editorial and production workflows, XML/HTML/EPUB modeling and specification, standards and best practices, and accessibility. He is a founding partner of Publishing Technology Partners. Bill is the W3C Global Publishing Evangelist and is active in the W3C Publishing@W3C work. He co-chairs NISO’s Accessibility Remediation Metadata (ARM) Working Group, is a member and Past President of SSP, and is also a member of BISG’s Workflow Working Group, IPTC, and the D... Read More →

Tim Lloyd

CEO, LibLynx

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... Read More →

Shivendra Naidoo

Senior Engagement Lead - Vendor Development, ORCID

With over a decade of experience working in the Academic Publishing and Educational Technology industries, Shivendra is passionate about supporting Research and Scholarly Communications. He holds a BSc in Physics with Astrophysics, and postgraduate qualifications in Business, and... Read More →

Nadja Oertelt

Strategic Partnerships Manager, Center for Open Science

Heather Staines

Senior Consultant, Delta Think

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!

Wednesday February 12, 2025 1:30pm - 2:45pm EST
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