[Eril-l] Explore best practices for AI in scholarly publishing at a NISO Plus pre-conference

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Join us on Monday, February 16 for a day of NISO Plus pre-conferences
<https://niso.plus/niso-plus-2026-baltimore/niso-plus-baltimore-2026-pre-conferences/>
on challenges and opportunities in AI in scholarly publishing! This is a
great opportunity to help shape emerging best practices for using AI in the
information community. Each workshop-style session will feature interactive
breakout groups to foster brainstorming and collaboration.

Pre-conference I

Keeping the Robots in Line: Provisioning AI Access to Content

Monday, February 16 | 8:30 am–12:00 pm

Over the past year, there has been an explosion of web traffic to content
sites driven by the ingestion of content for AI tools. Publishers,
repositories, content aggregators, and platform providers all have
reasons—and sometimes business cases—to allow agentic AI to access their
content. A publisher may choose to license some of its content to an LLM
developer, or to provide subscribed access to users who want to use AI
tools. An open access repository may allow researchers to use AI to ingest
its content and produce summaries or datasets. Whatever the case, allowing
AI to access your content raises important security, systems stability, and
interoperability issues, such as how to allow wanted AI agents in while
keeping the unwanted out. In this session, speakers and participants will
consider a range of ideas for managing AI access to content, with the goal
of identifying possible best practices that work across the community to
maintain service levels for humans while providing access to the robots.

Speakers include Tony Alves, HighWire; Todd Carpenter, NISO; and Jessica
Miles, The Informed Frontier

Pre-conference II

Tracking Usage in the Age of AI

Monday, February 16 | 1:00–5:00 pm

Measuring the impact of scholarly content is critical for publishers, who
must demonstrate its value to libraries and other stakeholders.
Traditionally, online usage tracking was focused primarily on human
activity, but machine usage of content can no longer be deprioritized; when
assessing the impact of a particular title or collection, content providers
and libraries are eager to capture all available data, including uses by
AI. However, not all AI uses are alike: some represent a human end-user,
while others originate from bots indiscriminately scraping sites for data.
Stakeholders must consider iImportant questions about the different types
of machine usage, such as search, summarization, and synthesis with AI
tools, and how that usage might be counted and assessed differently. In
this pre-conference, speakers and participants will explore how developing
best practices for counting and reporting AI usage could be adapted and
extended for a variety of scholarly platforms and applications. Attendees
will learn about existing work as well as newly developing approaches and
plan additional efforts to define AI usage for publishers and other content
repositories.

Speakers include Todd Carpenter, NISO; Tasha Mellins-Cohen, COUNTER;
and Michelle
Urberg, LibLynx.

The day promises to be a productive one for those working to identify best
practices for leveraging AI technologies effectively and responsibly. Register
now
<https://www.eventbrite.com/e/niso-plus-baltimore-2026-tickets-1919132128859?aff=oddtdtcreator>
to secure your place, and consider staying for the rest of the NISO Plus
conference
<https://niso.plus/2025/12/the-preliminary-program-for-np26baltimore-is-now-available/>,
which includes additional sessions on AI as well as interactive discussions
on metadata, research integrity, open research infrastructure, and more.
Check our conference website <https://niso.plus/niso-plus-2026-baltimore/>
for updates, and book your room at the Baltimore Marriott Waterfront
<https://book.passkey.com/go/NISOPlusConference2026> for the conference
rate!

Best wishes,

The NISO Team



NISO
3600 Clipper Mill Road, Suite 302
Baltimore, MD 21211
Phone: 301.654.2512
E-mail: nisohq at niso.org
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