Participating Big Ten Academic Alliance libraries have reached a transformative, three-year Read and Publish Agreement with the Institute of Physics (IOP), a further step in collective action toward the Big Collection. This agreement begins on January 1, 2023, and runs through December 31, 2025.

The Big Ten Academic Alliance Library Initiatives announces Kara Strieb will the Visiting Program Officer for Shared Collections as part of a generous commitment from The Ohio State University Libraries effort to the Big Collection.

The Big Ten Academic Alliance has announced a landmark deal with AM. Students, researchers, and scholars at 15 of the leading research institutions in the United States will now have unified access to millions of pages of essential primary source content from the entire AM core collections portfolio.

Four faculty from Big Ten Academic Alliance universities were recognized by the MacArthur Foundation as extraordinarily talented and creative individuals. The Foundation awards recipients $800,000 as an investment in their originality, insight, and potential to enable the fellows to exercise their own creative instincts for the benefit of human society.