Big Ten Academic Alliance Agreement with OA Switchboard

The Big Ten Academic Alliance has reached an agreement with the community-led intermediary OA Switchboard to benefit member libraries by utilizing a standardized metadata protocol and shared infrastructure. The agreement began on January 1, 2023, and runs through December 31, 2025.

Under the new agreement with OA Switchboard, the Big Ten Academic Alliance made it possible for its members to readily support the transition to open access and to advance the growth of open scholarship. BTAA members receive ‘publication notifications’ from over 24 participating publishers in a consistent data format to enhance their workflows, enable fulfillment of OA publication-level arrangements, and make OA publishing highly visible. It eases the technical integration with the increasingly complex open access research and publishing ecosystem. Benefits will grow as OA Switchboard acquires more partners and use cases.

Participating Institutions
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
Ohio State University
Pennsylvania State University
Purdue University
Rutgers University
University of Wisconsin-Madison