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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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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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Maurice York Appointed Director of Library Initiatives
May 5, 2020, 11:00 AM
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Big Ten Academic Alliance and ASERL partner to form Library Accessibility Alliance
Jan 7, 2020, 11:44 AM
The Association of Southeastern Research Libraries (ASERL) and the Big Ten Academic Alliance have created a new name for their recent partnership to advance accessibility for library electronic resources. Now called the “Library Accessibility Alliance” (LAA), the program seeks to ensure all library users have equitable access to information.
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BTAA and ASERL Announce Library Accessibility Partnership
Aug 1, 2019, 09:34 AM
The Big Ten Academic Alliance (BTAA) and the Association of Southeastern Research Libraries (ASERL) have entered into a two-year partnership to advance accessibility for library electronic resources, with the goal of providing equal access to information for all library users. Since 2016, the BTAA has been conducting third-party evaluations of electronic resource platforms and collections, publicly posting the evaluations for review by vendors and libraries.
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Sustaining Values and Scholarship: A Statement by the Provosts of the Big Ten Academic Alliance
Jun 10, 2019, 09:49 AM
The Big Ten Academic Alliance continues its advocacy for a sustainable and open ecosystem of publication. Collectively, our institutions’ more than 50,000 faculty are supported by over $10 billion (2017) in research funding, and our institutions have similarly invested significantly in our capacity to further our missions to advance knowledge. Together, we produce roughly 15% of the research publications in the United States.
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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
maurice.york@btaa.org
Robert Van Rennes
Associate Director
Library Initiatives
robert.vanrennes@btaa.org
Marian Leon
Assistant Director for the BIG Collection
Library Initiatives
marian.leon@btaa.org
Susanne Garrison
Community Coordinator
Library Initiatives
susanne.garrison@btaa.org