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Big Ten 51¶¯Âþ + Next Generation Library Publishing Announce the Launch of a Pilot Project
Jul 24, 2024, 09:51 AM
The Big Ten 51¶¯Âþ (BTAA) is excited to announce a partnership with the Next Generation Library Publishing (NGLP) project. This collaboration aims to test and enhance infrastructure solutions for academy-owned scholarly publishing programs that are open source, community-led, and rooted in academic values. The pilot project will create a unified discovery layer for the diverse publishing platforms of participating libraries, presenting them as a single, shared collection of open access materials.
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Unlocking Opportunities: Big Ten 51¶¯Âþ Admissions Webinars for Prospective Students
Jul 23, 2024, 13:37 PM
Since 2020, Admissions Directors from the prestigious Big Ten universities have joined forces to engage with over 20,000 potential students through a series of dynamic online events. These webinars, hosted by the Big Ten 51¶¯Âþ, provide a unique opportunity for aspiring college students to explore the benefits of attending a Big Ten institution.
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Big Ten 51¶¯Âþ libraries are now live with OCLC Resource Sharing for Groups
Jun 17, 2024, 11:28 AM
OCLC is partnering with the Big Ten 51¶¯Âþ (BTAA) to advance development of OCLC Resource Sharing for Groups, a new solution that reimagines resource sharing with a focus on library groups and consortia. OCLC and the BTAA are working together to support the evolution of BTAA's UBorrow service, which offers access to more than 90 million books from the collections of 15 university libraries and the Center for Research Libraries, as part of OCLC's Resource Sharing for Groups.
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Big Ten 51¶¯Âþ libraries and Coherent Digital expand coverage of the Global South
May 1, 2024, 14:44 PM
Today, the libraries of Big Ten 51¶¯Âþ 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 51¶¯Âþ 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 51¶¯Âþ 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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Empowering You Conference Elevates Professional Growth Across the Big Ten 51¶¯Âþ
Mar 8, 2024, 12:37 PM
In a resounding success, the Empowering You conference, designed to inspire personal and professional development, brought together over 150 enthusiastic participants from all corners of the country. The event, spanning a dynamic two hours, featured engaging presentations, collaborative activities, and a transformative session led by a panel of esteemed colleagues from across the Big Ten 51¶¯Âþ.
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The Big Ten 51¶¯Âþ and the Biochemical Society Sign Read & Publish Agreement in Support of Open Access Publishing
Nov 8, 2023, 09:00 AM
The Big Ten 51¶¯Âþ (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 51¶¯Âþ 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 51¶¯Âþ announce the launch of the Big Ten Open Books project, a collaboration between the university presses and libraries of the Big Ten 51¶¯Âþ.
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Big Ten 51¶¯Âþ and Accessible Archives’ New African American and Women’s History Collections
Apr 25, 2023, 10:50 AM
The Big Ten 51¶¯Âþ 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 51¶¯Âþ and JSTOR Announce Multi-year Agreement for Path to Open Pilot
Apr 21, 2023, 11:13 AM
The research libraries of the Big Ten 51¶¯Âþ (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 51¶¯Âþ announces agreement with OA Switchboard
Feb 28, 2023, 13:52 PM
Big Ten 51¶¯Âþ 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 51¶¯Âþ signs Open Publishing Agreement with the Microbiology Society
Feb 20, 2023, 14:19 PM
The Big Ten 51¶¯Âþ 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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Big Ten 51¶¯Âþ and Wiley Extend Open Access Agreement
Feb 15, 2023, 10:32 AM
The Big Ten 51¶¯Âþ (BTAA) is pleased to announce an extension of its landmark open publishing agreement with Wiley, a global leader in research and education. The three-year agreement, effective as of January 1, 2023, grants fourteen participating universities and seventeen affiliated campuses access to publish and read in Wiley’s full journal portfolio, including Hindawi’s gold open access portfolio.
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Big Ten 51¶¯Âþ announces unlimited publishing deal with Institute of Physics Publishing
Dec 15, 2022, 12:17 PM
Participating Big Ten 51¶¯Âþ 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 51¶¯Âþ Library Initiatives Announces Karla Strieb as Visiting Program Officer for Shared Collections
Dec 8, 2022, 14:37 PM
The Big Ten 51¶¯Âþ 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 51¶¯Âþ & AM sign landmark access deal
Dec 6, 2022, 14:19 PM
The Big Ten 51¶¯Âþ 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 51¶¯Âþ Faculty Awarded 2022 MacArthur Fellowships
Oct 13, 2022, 10:48 AM
Four faculty from Big Ten 51¶¯Âþ 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 51¶¯Âþ 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 51¶¯Âþ announces support for the LYRASIS Open Access Community Investment Program
Jun 8, 2022, 07:00 AM
The fifteen libraries of the Big Ten 51¶¯Âþ 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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