Libraries
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The Libraries of the Big Ten Academic Alliance are aligned in the vision of uniting our separate collections into one collection, shared and fully networked: the BIG Collection. By this phrase we mean a holistic and comprehensive understanding of what a library "collection" is: not simply the things we hold, but our services; our people; our expertise; our technology; and our infrastructure.
In advancing this future of interdependence and excellence, we are guided by our North Star in everything that we do:
In order to advance a just, trustworthy, scalable & sustainable open knowledge ecosystem, make open, more equitable scholarship our lead purpose.
On these pages, you'll find more about the services, programs, and community that are advancing this vision in a principles-centered, mission-driven, values-aligned way.
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Library News
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Big Ten Academic Alliance libraries are now live with OCLC Resource Sharing for Groups
Jun 17, 2024, 11:28 AM
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Big Ten Academic Alliance libraries and Coherent Digital expand coverage of the Global South
May 1, 2024, 14:44 PM
Today, the libraries of Big Ten Academic Alliance confirmed the purchase of three additional modules of Africa Commons, a large-scale, multiyear project to digitize, disseminate, and discover African cultural materials, building on their 2022 founding-member purchase of the first module, African History and Culture. In addition, the Big Ten Academic Alliance has been named a founding member of South Asia Commons.
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Better together: BTAA Libraries, CDL and Lyrasis commit to strengthen Diamond Open Access in the United States
Apr 18, 2024, 10:59 AM
Representatives from the Big Ten Academic Alliance Libraries (BTAA Libraries), California Digital Library (CDL) and Lyrasis attended the Global Summit on Diamond Open Access in Toluca, Mexico in October 2023. The Summit convened the international community to engage in dialog about how to advance Diamond Open Access(OA) to secure scholarly research as a public good and ensure equitable access to both the publishing and reading of that research.
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The Big Ten Academic Alliance and the Biochemical Society Sign Read & Publish Agreement in Support of Open Access Publishing
Nov 8, 2023, 09:00 AM
The Big Ten Academic Alliance (BTAA) and the Biochemical Society are delighted to announce a Read & Publish agreement that supports the open sharing of research and knowledge from across the molecular biosciences.
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Increasing Access: BTAA Libraries Project on Open Homework Systems
Sep 20, 2023, 10:33 AM
Penn State University Libraries is leading a pilot project on behalf of the Big Ten Academic Alliance to develop a model for supporting open-source online homework delivery systems as supplemental resources for teaching with open educational resources (OER).
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Big Ten Open Books Project Launches First Collection
Aug 1, 2023, 09:00 AM
In partnership with six member university presses, the University Librarians of the Big Ten Academic Alliance announce the launch of the Big Ten Open Books project, a collaboration between the university presses and libraries of the Big Ten Academic Alliance.
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Big Ten Academic Alliance and Accessible Archives’ New African American and Women’s History Collections
Apr 25, 2023, 10:50 AM
The Big Ten Academic Alliance announces the acquisition of new essential primary source content for member libraries through Accessible Archives. The range includes African American Newspapers in the South, 1870-1926, and The Woman’s Tribune, 1882-1909.
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Big Ten Academic Alliance and JSTOR Announce Multi-year Agreement for Path to Open Pilot
Apr 21, 2023, 11:13 AM
The research libraries of the Big Ten Academic Alliance (BTAA) have entered into a multi-year pilot agreement with JSTOR to support Path to Open, a new cost-effective, sustainable publishing model for supporting frontlist university press monographs and making them open access after three years.
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Big Ten Academic Alliance announces agreement with OA Switchboard
Feb 28, 2023, 13:52 PM
Big Ten Academic Alliance libraries have reached an agreement for OA Switchboard to benefit from the standardized metadata protocol and shared infrastructure provided by this community-led intermediary initiative. This agreement began on January 1, 2023, and runs through December 31, 2025.
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Big Ten Academic Alliance signs Open Publishing Agreement with the Microbiology Society
Feb 20, 2023, 14:19 PM
The Big Ten Academic Alliance and the Microbiology Society are delighted to announce a three-year open publishing agreement from 2023, facilitated by Accucoms. The Publish and Read model will allow affiliated researchers at 15 universities to publish an unlimited number of Open Access (OA) articles in hybrid and fully OA titles, as well as have full read access to the Society’s journals portfolio.
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