In the meantime, applications of information technology grow rapidly more sophisticated and automated, adding media and capabilities that open up new ways of learning, communicating, and creating knowledge. “…tomorrow they (the tools) will be universal, viewed as necessities. The NFAIS 2018 Annual Conference provided a very interesting overview of how the scholarly community is attempting to work together towards a more open, global, and collaborative future. It is also became clear that there are divergent views on when and how this goal will be reached. It became clear that the ultimate and common goal of all stakeholders in the scholarly and scientific communities is the rapid dissemination of scholarly communication with the parallel advancement of scientific research. These include the rise of private funding foundations that are mandating more open and collaborative research innovative new technologies and tools that have opened dialogue in the research community and increased interoperability and seamless access to not only the scholarly article, but also to all associated digital research objects. The goal of the conference was to take a close look at the initiatives that have emerged as a result of the increasing global acceptance of Open Science and Open Access ideologies and policies. This paper offers an overview of the highlights of the 2018 NFAIS Annual Conference, Information Transformation: Open, Global, Collaborative, that was held in Alexandria, VA from February 28 - March 2, 2018.
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