Big Ten Academic Alliance + Next Generation Library Publishing announce the launch of a Pilot project

The Big Ten Academic Alliance (BTAA) and Next Generation Library Publishing are thrilled to announce their partnership on a project to test and expand state-of-the-art infrastructure solutions for our academy-owned scholarly publishing programs that are open source, community-led, and grounded in academic values. In order to enable greater discovery, dissemination, and preservation of BTAA-published content, the pilot project will create a single aggregate discovery layer for the many disparate publishing platforms of the participating libraries, enabling an experience of them as a single, shared collection of published open access materials.

Through this BTAA-funded pilot project, Penn State University Libraries and Indiana University Libraries will work with the Next Generation Library Publishing (NGLP) team to advance their infrastructure and service models by implementing a scoped instance of its modular, open-source display layer, Meru, specifically for the Big Ten Academic Alliance.

This project will be aligned with the recently announced IMLS grant-funded project where the University of Iowa Libraries are collaborating with the NGLP team to build out a production-ready instance of Meru that showcases their full publication portfolio.

This work is also a part of a broader effort, undertaken by BTAA, the California Digital Library, and Lyrasis to advance Diamond Open Access publishing in the U.S.

Read the full press release.