The Greater Western Library Alliance (GWLA) is a library consortium of 35 research libraries primarily located in the central and western United States.
Projects and Associated Organizations
Occam's Reader. In February 2014, it was announced that GWLA, along with development partners Texas Tech University and University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa, had entered into an agreement with Springer Science+Business to do a year-long pilot test of the eBook interlibrary loan software Occam's Reader.Western Waters Digital Library. In 2004, the Western Waters Digital Library was begun as a collaborative regional project by twelve research libraries under the auspices of the Greater Western Library Alliance (GWLA). Since its inception, an additional 18 institutions have joined the project.BioOne. The Greater Western Library Alliance was one of five collaborating institutions which founded BioOne, a not-for-profit collaborative created to address inequities in STM publishing. BioOne was founded in 2001.In addition to the official website, GWLA has a presence on Facebook. An occasional newsletter is also issued, and an archive is available.
