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The Big Ten Academic Alliance Library Initiatives focus on three objectives--optimizing student and faculty access to the combined resources of our libraries; maximizing cost, time, and space savings; and supporting a collaborative environment where library staff can work together to solve their mutual problems.



Library News
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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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Member Libraries:
- University of Chicago
- University of Illinois
- Indiana University
- University of Iowa
- University of Maryland
- University of Michigan
- Michigan State University
- University of Minnesota
- University of Nebraska-Lincoln
- Northwestern University
- The Ohio State University
- The Pennsylvania State University
- Purdue University
- Rutgers University
- University of Wisconsin-Madison
Contacts:
Maurice York
Director
Library Initiatives
Phone: (217) 300-0945
Email: maurice.york@btaa.org
Robert Van Rennes
Associate Director
Library Initiatives
Phone: (217) 300-4744
Email: robert.vanrennes@btaa.org
Marian Leon
Assistant Director for the BIG Collection
Library Initiatives
Phone: (217) 333-5334
Email: marian.leon@btaa.org
Rebecca Crist
Project Manager
Library Initiatives
Phone: (217) 300-4647
Email: rebecca.crist@btaa.org
Susanne Garrison
Office Administrator
Library Initiatives
Phone: (217) 244-9239
Email: susanne.garrison@btaa.org