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Big Ten Academic Alliance announces unlimited publishing deal with Institute of Physics Publishing
Dec 15, 2022, 12:17 PM
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.
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Big Ten Academic Alliance Library Initiatives Announces Karla Strieb as Visiting Program Officer for Shared Collections
Dec 8, 2022, 14:37 PM
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.
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Big Ten Academic Alliance & AM sign landmark access deal
Dec 6, 2022, 14:19 PM
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.
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Big Ten Academic Alliance Faculty Awarded 2022 MacArthur Fellowships
Oct 13, 2022, 10:48 AM
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.
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Academic Leadership Program Welcomes 33rd Cohort
Oct 11, 2022, 11:19 AM
The Big Ten Academic Alliance is excited to announce the kickoff of the 2022-2023 Academic Leadership Program. This nationally recognized leadership initiative has produced more than 1,500 fellows, many of whom have gone on to serve with distinction as college presidents, provosts, and deans.
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The Big Ten Academic Alliance announces support for the LYRASIS Open Access Community Investment Program
Jun 8, 2022, 07:00 AM
The fifteen libraries of the Big Ten Academic Alliance have made a collective investment of $45,000 to support the LYRASIS Open Access Community Investment Program (OACIP) general fund that finances open access content
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The Big Ten Academic Alliance announces support for Reveal Digital
May 18, 2022, 09:33 AM
The Big Ten Academic Alliance (BTAA) has made a group commitment to support the new Reveal Digital publishing program Behind the Scenes of the Civil Rights Movements. All 15 member libraries are participating in this agreement, which totals more than $500,000.
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BTAA and Wiley Announce Open Access Publishing Pilot
Feb 14, 2022, 09:00 AM
The Big Ten Academic Alliance announced an agreement with global research and education leader Wiley for a one-year contract extension with an open access option, as a pilot in collective action toward the Big Collection.
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BTAA Announces Collective Action Agreement with arXiv
Feb 10, 2022, 11:22 AM
The fifteen world-class research libraries of the Big Ten Academic Alliance have agreed to support arXiv, a community-supported resource administered by Cornell University, at the champion level for the next three years.
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Library Accessibility Alliance Announces New Website & Expanded Resources
Aug 23, 2021, 11:32 AM
Members of the Library Accessibility Alliance (LAA) are pleased to announce their new website, featuring enhancements to the popular accessibility evaluations of databases, along with an expanded collection of resources.
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Big Ten Academic Alliance and University of Michigan Press Announce Fund to Mission Agreement
Aug 5, 2021, 14:52 PM
The Big Ten Academic Alliance and the University of Michigan Press have signed a three-year agreement that provides multi-year support for Fund to Mission from all fifteen member libraries. Fund to Mission is the Press’s open access monograph model that aligns with its mission and commitment to equity, justice, inclusion, and accessibility.The model demonstrates a return to the origins of the university press movement and moves toward a more open, sustainable infrastructure for the humanities and social sciences. It is one of several programs that university presses are developing to expand the reach of their specialist publications.
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The Big Ten Academic Alliance joins Direct to Open from the MIT Press
Jul 21, 2021, 13:51 PM
The MIT Press and the Big Ten Academic Alliance (BTAA) have entered a three-year collective action agreement that provides Direct to Open (D2O) access for all fifteen BTAA member libraries. An innovative, sustainable framework for open access monographs, D2O moves professional and scholarly books from a solely market-based, purchase model to a collaborative, library-supported open access model.
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BTAA Joins Open Library of Humanities
Jul 19, 2021, 11:18 AM
The Big Ten Academic Alliance (BTAA) and the Open Library of Humanities (OLH) have signed a three-year collective agreement that provides multi-year support for OLH from all of the BTAA’s fifteen member libraries. This move was made possible thanks to the OLH Open Consortial Offer, an initiative that offers consortia, societies, networks and scholarly projects the opportunity to join the Open Library of Humanities Library Partnership Subsidy system as a bloc, enabling each institution to benefit from a discount.
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OmniSoc a founding partner in global threat intelligence sharing sytem
May 26, 2021, 15:13 PM
A new cybersecurity threat intelligence sharing system that will help research and education organizations prevent and mitigate cyber-attacks has been created by higher education information technology and cybersecurity organizations in the United Kingdom, United States, Canada and Australia will collaborate to share intelligence on malware attacks using a platform called MISP.
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Big Ten Academic Alliance and Directory of Open Access Books (DOAB) and OAPEN Library and Publication Platform (OAPEN) Announce a Three-Year Collective Action Agreement
May 17, 2021, 12:00 PM
The Big Ten Academic Alliance has entered into a three-year collective action agreement with the Directory of Open Access Books (DOAB) and OAPEN Library and Publication Platform (OAPEN) to provide financial support from all fifteen member libraries.
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NSF launches Engineering Research Visioning Alliance as force multiplier for high-impact research
Apr 7, 2021, 11:35 AM
The National Science Foundation (NSF) Directorate for Engineering today launched the Engineering Research Visioning Alliance (ERVA), the first engineering research visioning organization of its kind. Its founding partners are members of the Big Ten Academic Alliance; the Established Program to Stimulate Competitive Research (EPSCoR)/Institutional Development Award (IDeA) Foundation (EIF); and the University Industry Demonstration Partnership (UIDP).
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The Big Ten Academic Alliance Announces Publishing Deal with Cambridge University Press
Feb 17, 2021, 11:07 AM
The Big Ten Academic Alliance (BTAA) and Cambridge University Press (CUP) have signed a three-year ‘Read and Publish’ agreement that provides multi-year reading rights to the full CUP journals package and uncapped open access publishing of eligible and accepted research at no additional cost to authors.
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The Big Ten Academic Alliance Announces Collective Action Agreement with DOAJ
Feb 15, 2021, 13:36 PM
he Big Ten Academic Alliance (BTAA) and the Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ) have announced a three-year collective action agreement that provides multi-year support for DOAJ from all fifteen member libraries. DOAJ indexes and promotes quality, peer-reviewed open access journals from around the world, providing a community-driven service to play an essential role in the creation of a sustainable model for the future of scholarly publishing.
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Library Accessibility Alliance Adds New Partners: GWLA and WRLC to bolster Accessibility Awareness, Assessment, Outreach
Feb 8, 2021, 10:53 AM
Two additional research library consortia have joined LAA: The partnership now includes the Greater Western Library Alliance (GWLA) and the Washington Research Library Consortium (WRLC).
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Chronicle of Higher Ed highlights value of collaboration, CIC
Jan 29, 2021, 09:33 AM
It its Feb. 13 issue, the Chronicle of Higher Education examined how collaborations can help universities leverage their resources as a way to cut costs and expand their academic reach. Institutions are increasingly seeking new partnerships or investing in existing...
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