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The Big Ten Academic Alliance and University Press Partners Announce the Big Ten Open Books First Collection

  • 1.  The Big Ten Academic Alliance and University Press Partners Announce the Big Ten Open Books First Collection

    Posted Aug 01, 2023 09:02 AM

    The Big Ten Academic Alliance and University Press Partners Announce the Big Ten Open Books First Collection

     

    Press Release

     

    August 1, 2023, Champaign, IL - 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.

     

    The first 100-title collection centered on Gender and Sexuality studies is now published. The works included in the collection have all been previously published in print by the partnering university presses and are now being made openly available in digital form to read and reuse at no cost. Each title has undergone a rigorous selection and quality certification process that allows readers and users of this collection to trust the veracity of the content made available.

     

    The Big Ten Open Books first collection brings to the reader a wide variety of materials in arts, humanities, and social science disciplines that are centered on gender and sexuality themes. The collection's impact will be seen through its broad sharing of knowledge and high quality scholarship. Big Ten Open Books creates ebook collections that aspire to the highest standards of discoverability, accessibility, durability, and flexibility.

     

    This collection has established a distinctive model for unified, open-access publishing of scholarly monographs. It creates open content that is immediately and universally available, on open infrastructure, Fulcrum, hosted by the University of Michigan, using open distribution models (including Project MUSE, JSTOR, and OAPEN) to envision a robust programmatic future for open monograph publishing. This work is aligned with the Big Ten Academic Alliance's development of the BIG Collection's ambition of uniting the collections of the libraries of the Big Ten Academic Alliance, and is supported by the Mellon Foundation's Public Knowledge program. The partner presses are Indiana University Press, Michigan State University Press, Northwestern University Press, Purdue University Press, University of Michigan Press, and University of Wisconsin Press.

    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 $11 billion in research funding, and our institutions have invested significantly in our capacity to further the research mission by advancing public knowledge through open publishing. Together, we produce roughly 15% of the research publications in the United States.


    Contacts:

    • Kara Scanlon McKinn, Communications Coordinator, Big Ten Academic Alliance, 217-244-9849 Email: kara.mckinn@btaa.org

    • Kate McCready, Visiting Program Officer, Academy Owned Scholarly Publishing, Big Ten Academic Alliance. 612-325-8762 Email: kate.mccready@btaa.org

     

    Big Ten Academic Alliance Snapshot 
    Big Ten Academic Alliance Fact Sheet

     


    About the Big Ten Academic Alliance

     

    The Big Ten Academic Alliance is the nation's preeminent model for effective collaboration among research universities. For more than half a century, these world-class institutions have advanced their academic missions, generated unique opportunities for students and faculty, and served the common good by sharing expertise, leveraging campus resources, and collaborating on innovative programs. Governed and funded by the provosts of the member universities, Big Ten Academic Alliance mandates are coordinated by a staff from its Champaign, Illinois headquarters. The fifteen world-class libraries of the Big Ten Academic Alliance members include Indiana University, Michigan State University, Northwestern University, Ohio State University, Pennsylvania State University, Purdue University, Rutgers University–New Brunswick, University of Illinois, University of Iowa, University of Maryland, University of Michigan, University of Minnesota, University of Nebraska–Lincoln, University of Wisconsin–Madison, and the University of Chicago.


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    Kate McCready

    Visiting Program Officer for Academy Owned Scholarly Publishing

    kate.mccready@btaa.org

    www.btaa.org



    The nation's premier higher education consortium of top-tier research institutions.
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