{"id":7867,"date":"2026-11-05T09:59:44","date_gmt":"2026-11-05T15:59:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/news\/?p=7867"},"modified":"2026-11-05T10:00:46","modified_gmt":"2026-11-05T16:00:46","slug":"big-ten-open-books-project-launches-three-new-collections","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/news\/2026\/11\/05\/big-ten-open-books-project-launches-three-new-collections\/","title":{"rendered":"Big Ten Open Books project launches three new collections"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

In partnership with eight Big Ten-affiliated university presses, the Big Ten Academic Alliance\u2019s Center for Library Programs has expanded the Big Ten Open Books<\/a> project with the publication of its next three 100-book collections. \u00a0<\/p>\n

The collections are centered on African- Asian- and Hispanic American experiences; health disparities and disability culture; and human environmental impact. The works included have all been previously published in print by the partnering university presses and are now being made openly available in digital form<\/a> to read and reuse at no cost.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

The Big Ten Open Books project 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\u00a0Project MUSE<\/strong><\/a>,\u00a0JSTOR<\/strong><\/a>,\u00a0OAPEN<\/strong><\/a>, and\u00a0The Palace Project from Lyrasis<\/strong><\/a>) and envisions a robust programmatic future for open monograph publishing. Funding for this collection has been provided by the libraries of the Big Ten Academic Alliance and the California Digital Library.\u00a0<\/p>\n

This work is aligned with the Big Ten Academic Alliance\u2019s vision for the\u00a0BIG Collection<\/strong><\/a>, which seeks to unite the collections of the libraries of the Big Ten Academic Alliance into one collection, shared and fully networked.\u00a0<\/p>\n

About the Big Ten Academic Alliance (BTAA)<\/p>\n

The Big Ten Academic Alliance is the nation\u2019s preeminent model for effective collaboration among research universities. For decades, 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 nineteen world-class libraries of the Big Ten Academic Alliance include Indiana University, Michigan State University, Northwestern University, The Ohio State University, Pennsylvania State University, Purdue University, Rutgers University, University of California Los Angeles, University of Illinois at Urbana\u2013Champaign, University of Iowa, University of Maryland, University of Michigan, University of Minnesota, University of Nebraska\u2013Lincoln, University of Oregon, University of Southern California, University of Washington, University of Wisconsin\u2013Madison, and the University of Chicago.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In partnership with eight Big Ten-affiliated university presses, the Big Ten Academic Alliance\u2019s Center for Library Programs has expanded the Big Ten Open Books project with the publication of its next three 100-book collections. \u00a0 The collections are centered on African- Asian- and Hispanic American experiences; health disparities and disability culture; and human environmental impact.Continue reading “Big Ten Open Books project launches three new collections”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":148,"featured_media":5528,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"syndication":[33,80],"class_list":["post-7867","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","syndication-libraries-home-page","syndication-main-library-news-page","has-blocks","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7867","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/148"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7867"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7867\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7870,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7867\/revisions\/7870"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5528"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7867"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7867"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7867"},{"taxonomy":"syndication","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/syndication?post=7867"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}