Authors Alliance is proud to partner with the following organizations in support of academic authors:
About the Partner Program
The Authors Alliance Partner Program helps us support academic authors by fostering close collaboration with their universities—most often through their libraries—to develop quality resources, advocacy, and tools that support a more open and equitable information ecosystem. For many academic authors, their library is the first place they turn to for advice on publishing, copyright, and scholarly communications. Through the Partner Program, universities are able to draw on Authors Alliance’s deep legal and publishing expertise to expand support for their authors. Universities that are part of our Partner Program support Authors Alliance in the following:
Partner Program Benefits Include:
- Regular case updates, legislative summaries, and other information on the latest legal and policy developments affecting authorship, publishing, and libraries
- Consulting on copyright and similar questions from authors on your campus
- Contributing your input on the development of new open-access guides to legal issues facing academic authors
- Professional development opportunities for librarians on scholarly communications issues (e.g., steeply discounted participation in our new Leadership Institute in Research and Information Policy, in collaboration with Georgetown Law, and an opportunity to deliver feedback and shape this programming for the coming years)
- Custom collaboration on in person and virtual events to engage your campus community
- Joining and learning from a community of like-minded organizations that want to help authors disseminate their work
Your Participation Supports:
- Publishing authoritative, open access guides to legal issues facing authors.
- Offering workshops, book talks, and other programs that give authors an opportunity to better understand why information law matters for their work and how they can take action to support good information policy.
- Directly intervening with and on behalf of academic authors in support of fair use, the public domain, and access to knowledge.
Interested in Joining the Partner Program?
Authors Alliance welcomes inquiries about joining our Partner Program! The Partner Program is primarily geared toward U.S. and Canadian institutions and consortia, but we are happy to respond to inquiries from others as well.
We view this program as an opportunity for true collaboration. We have, in many instances, been able to work with partners to bolster local outreach and training, give feedback on proposed policies or initiatives affecting authors, and, in some cases, offer consultations with individual authors where additional expertise is needed.
For 2026, Authors Alliance Partner Program contributions levels are:
SUSTAINING: $5,000 annually, typically for R1 institutions
SPONSORING: $3,000 annually, typically for R2 and R3 institutions
SUPPORTING: $1,500 annually, for all other institutions
If you have questions about joining the Authors Alliance Partner Program, we would be pleased to hear from you. You can reach Dave Hansen, Authors Alliance’s Executive Director, at dave@authorsalliance.org.
Acknowledgments
We are grateful to Arcadia—a charitable fund of Lisbet Rausing and Peter Baldwin—for a 2018-20 grant to support this initiative. We’re also grateful to the pilot partners who helped us shape the original Partner Program, including our workshop in a box, webinar, and issue brief resources.