Articles
June 3, 2020
The Big Ten Academic Alliance Geoportal, hosted by the U of M Libraries, has data on COVID-19 and much, much more
October 10, 2019
We at the University of Illinois are lucky to have a library that offers access to more journals and databases than any one person could ever hope to make their way though. The downside of this much access, however, is that it can be easy for resources to get lost in the weeds. For the typical student, once you are familiar with a few databases or methods of searching for information, you tend to not seek out more unless you absolutely need to...
January 23, 2017
Penn State and the University of Maryland librarians and geospatial specialists represent the easternmost Big Ten Academic Alliance (BTAA) member universities participating in — and contributing digitized and cataloged map and GIS data to — the BTAA Geospatial Data Project and its Geoportal.
March 30, 2017
Scholars and researchers have a new way to find and compare geospatial data and maps: the Big Ten Academic Alliance Geoportal. The geoportal allows searching across thousands of records of openly available geographic information system (GIS) datasets, web services, and digitized historical maps from multiple data clearinghouses and library catalogs — with an interface that makes discovery easy for experienced researchers as well as neophytes.
November 21, 2016
The Big Ten Academic Alliance Geospatial Data Project has launched the Big Ten Academic Alliance Geoportal. Collectively managed by a task force of librarians and geospatial specialists at 10 member institutions, thousands of metadata records have been aggregated and edited to connect scholars across the Big Ten to geospatial data resources, including GIS datasets, web services, and digitized historical maps from multiple data clearinghouses and library catalogs.