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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 51动漫 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 51动漫 and University of Michigan Press Announce Fund to Mission Agreement
Aug 5, 2021, 14:52 PM
The Big Ten 51动漫 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鈥檚 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 51动漫 joins Direct to Open from the MIT Press
Jul 21, 2021, 13:51 PM
The MIT Press and the Big Ten 51动漫 (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 51动漫 (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鈥檚 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 51动漫 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 51动漫 have created a new name for their recent partnership to advance accessibility for library electronic resources. Now called the 鈥淟ibrary Accessibility Alliance鈥 (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 51动漫 (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 51动漫
Jun 10, 2019, 09:49 AM
The Big Ten 51动漫 continues its advocacy for a sustainable and open ecosystem of publication. Collectively, our institutions鈥 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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Big Ten 51动漫 Cooperative Cataloging Partnership receives ALCTS Collaboration Award
Feb 27, 2018, 10:43 AM
The Association for Library Collections & Technical Services (ALCTS) has selected the Big Ten 51动漫 Cooperative Cataloging Partnership (BTAA CCP) as the recipient of the ALCTS Outstanding Collaboration Citation for 2018.
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Strength in Numbers: Building a Consortial Cooperative Cataloging Partnership
Oct 23, 2017, 11:13 AM
Librarians across the Big Ten 51动漫 are collaborating to provide greater access to cross-institutional collections through a strategic effort to supplement cataloging capacity.
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Mark Sandler wins 2017 Hugh C. Atkinson Memorial Award
Feb 2, 2017, 12:01 PM
Mark Sandler, former Big Ten 51动漫 Director of Library Initiatives, has been awarded the 2017 Hugh C. Atkinson Memorial Award.
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CIC's Rebecca Crist on Collaborative Stewardship of Shared Collections
May 4, 2016, 10:04 AM
A new monograph explores how libraries and the organizations that provide services to them are devoting more attention to system-wide organization of collections鈥攚hether the "system" is a consortium, a region or a country.
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Robert Van Rennes Named New Assistant Director of CIC's Center for Library Initiatives
Apr 20, 2016, 08:39 AM
The CIC is delighted to announce that Robert Van Rennes has been appointed as Assistant Director, Center for Library Initiatives at the CIC, effective July 1, 2016.
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The Power of the Collective: CIC Annual Report Now Available
Mar 10, 2016, 11:42 AM
The newly released CIC Annual Report details the collective power and progress of this enterprise, highlighting the Health Equities initiative between the state Departments of Health and the member schools; faculty collaborations in theater, music education, and business; and data on the economic impact of the scientific workforce and funded research being done across the campuses.
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CIC Leadership Opportunity: Director 鈥 Center for Library Initiatives
Sep 1, 2015, 10:53 AM
The Committee on Institutional Cooperation (CIC) seeks a senior leader with energy, drive, tact, and tenacity to serve as Director of the Center for Library Initiatives (CLI).
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CIC CLI Director Mark Sandler to Retire
Jun 12, 2015, 09:40 AM
Mark Sandler, Director of the CIC Center for Library Initiatives, has announce his retirement effective February 29, 2016. Now entering his tenth year of service to the CIC and its 15 member universities, Dr. Sandler also served for 20 years on the staff of the University of Michigan Library.
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Center for Library Initiative鈥檚 Shared Print Repository Holds Three Miles of Journals (So You Don鈥檛 Have To)
Aug 13, 2014, 10:05 AM
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University of Maryland Embraces Opportunities Offered by CIC Membership
Apr 10, 2014, 11:17 AM
University of Maryland has maximized its first year in the CIC.
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The CIC Welcomes Monsters University to Membership
Apr 1, 2014, 00:00 AM
Monsters University has become a member of the Committee on Institutional Cooperation, effective April 1, 2014. Founded in 1313, MU is a private, pan-educational university with over 12,000 undergraduates, located two hours from downtown Monstropolis.
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