The Big Ten Academic Alliance is hosting a series of meetings, “Sequence of Convenings Toward the Big Collection” beginning Jan. 9. The series aims to align resources and activities across Big Ten Academic Alliance library initiatives.

The next event, “Open Publishing and Open Scholarship in the Big Ten: A Perspective from Faculty Authors and Researchers,” will open at 10 a.m. Jan. 9, with the main session. on Zoom.

Through two faculty panels (one from the perspective of the sciences, one from the humanities), this plenary session will take a look at the current state of open scholarship on Big Ten campuses.

All library staff and research/teaching faculty across Big Ten campuses are invited to this free presentation and discussion. The opening plenary is open to all, without a need to register. Access to the plenary is through this Zoom link. Participants will be able to choose which panel they would like to attend.

The Libraries of the Big Ten Academic Alliance are engaged partners in advancing the growth of more equitable open science and open scholarship by helping to shape a sustainable, scalable, trustworthy, and just open knowledge ecosystem. Throughout the week, faculty from across Big Ten institutions will speak to their perspective on the value of open access publishing to their work, its current state, and prospects for the future. These later focused conversations have limited seating and require pre-registration.

The opening session panels are:

Arts & Humanities Panel

• Torsten Reimer, university librarian and dean, University of Chicago (host)

• Harmony Bench, associate professor, Department of Dance, Ohio State University

• Holly Brewer, Burke Professor of American History, University of Maryland

• TJ Billard, assistant professor, School of Communication, Northwestern University

• Josephine Lee, professor of English and Asian American studies, University of Minnesota

Sciences & Social Sciences Panel

• Beth McNeil, dean of Libraries, Purdue University (host)

• Michael Dougherty, chair, Department of Psychology, University of Maryland

• Sylvie Brouder, professor of agronomy, Purdue University

• Bryan Carstens, chair, Department of Evolution, Ecology, and Organismal Biology, Ohio State University

• Moin Syed, professor, Department of Psychology, University of Minnesota

Focused conversations

Kate McCready, the Big Ten’s Visiting Program Officer for Academy Owned Scholarly Publishing, will host a series of focused conversations over the course of the week. Seats in the conversations are limited, to allow for rich interaction and discussion. Please register in advance to receive the zoom link and joining information.

• 1 p.m. Jan. 10: “A Culture of Open Access and Open Scholarship on Campus,” Karl Broman, professor, Department of Biostatistics & Medical Informatics, University of Wisconsin

• 10 a.m. Jan. 11: “The BTAA Libraries’ Open Scholarship Strategy,” Kate McCready, VPO for academy owned scholarly publishing, and Maurice York, director of library initiatives, Big Ten Academic Alliance

• 1 p.m. Jan. 11: “Library-Faculty Collaboration on Publishing Data Analysis,” Dan Coughlin, head of Libraries Strategic Technologies, Penn State University

• 11 a.m. Jan. 12: “The Political Economy of Academic Publishing,” Joel Wainwright, professor of geography, Ohio State University