Call for proposals now open for NISO Plus 2024 Global/Online
What are the top priorities and concerns facing your organization? What are the biggest opportunities or risks, and how should the information community address them?
Apply by June 13 for an Amigos Sponsored Scholarship to the 2024 NWILL Conference!
This year, Amigos is pleased to again sponsor registration fees for staff from Amigos member libraries to attend the annual Northwest Interlibrary Loan (NWILL) & Resource Sharing Conference.
Apply by June 6 for an Amigos Sponsored Scholarship to the 2024 NWILL Conference!
This year, Amigos is pleased to again sponsor registration fees for staff from Amigos member libraries to attend the annual Northwest Interlibrary Loan (NWILL) & Resource Sharing Conference.
Image
Invitation to participate in DOAJ’s Community Consultation
Amigos partner, DOAJ, a trusted directory dedicated to indexing high-quality Open Access journals, plays a pivotal role in the scholarly community. Libraries make extensive use of DOAJ as a source of trusted journals, integrating metadata into their discovery systems and open access services. Amigos partnership with DOAJ simplifies the process of library contributions for DOAJ and facilitates libraries providing financial support for DOAJ's vital work.
Catch Up on DOAJ’s Data, Work and Projects in Newly Released Annual Highlights 2023 Report
The Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ), an Amigos partner, has released an 'Annual Highlights' report outlining highlighted data, work, and projects from 2023. In 2023 DOAJ celebrated significant milestones and continued to develop their organization and service to keep pace with the changing landscape.
Controlled Digital Lending Recommended Practice Draft from NISO Out for Public Comment
The National Information Standards Organization (NISO) announced that its draft Interoperable System of Controlled Digital Lending (IS-CDL) Recommended Practice (NISO RP-44-202X) is now available for public comment through April 21 at the project website. NISO invites all members of the information community to review the work and share any feedback.
Amigos Members Win NISO Plus Scholarships
Each year, the National Information Standards Organization (NISO) Plus conference brings people together in a dynamic forum to explore and tackle trends and challenges in the global information community. The NISO Plus Scholarship program extends a unique opportunity for a group of emerging and mid-career professionals to contribute their perspectives and make their voices heard.
NISO Releases Content Profile/Linked Document Standard
The National Information Standards Organization (NISO) recently announced the publication of its newest standard, ANSI/NISO Z39.105-2023, Content Profile/Linked Document (CP/LD), which enables portions of content, data, semantics, and other resources from separate sources to be combined into a single, standards-based format optimized for interchange, search, and display.
See what NISO has in store for January-February 2024
Get a jump on 2024 by signing up now for one of the upcoming events hosted by the National Information Standards Organization (NISO)!
DOAJ at 20: Trusted webinar December 7 – Registrations open
Registrations is now open for DOAJ at 20: Trusted. This third and final webinar celebrates 20 years of DOAJ, on December 7th at 8 am Central Time. Moderated by Joy Owango from TCC Africa, the ninety-minute webinar will have four speakers – Judith Barnsby, Ivan Oransky, Ixchel Faniel and Dr Haseeb Irfanullah – discuss what it means to be trusted and variations of mistrust in scholarly communications.