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A new way to support OpenAlex: become a Member!
Starting today, institutions can now support OpenAlex as a **Member for $5,000 USD/year** —a lightweight way to help sustain fully-open research metadata for institutions who don’t need the services provided by our existing institutional service offerings.
🎉A special thank you and shout-out to the University of Victoria for becoming our first OpenAlex Member supporter!
OpenAlex remains **free to use** (website, API, and quarterly public snapshot), with data released under **CC0** license. Membership is about keeping that open infrastructure healthy and helping us scale sustainably.
## What you get as a Member
Membership is designed for institutions (often university libraries) who want to invest in open infrastructure and also get a few practical benefits in return.
The **Member** tier includes:
* **Admin dashboard** (with institutional use statistics)
* **Affiliation editor** (access provided to certified curators)
* **_Unsub_ access **(helping libraries with data-driven collections strategies)
* **Nomination rights** (for our Community Advisory Board)
* **Members roundtables** (quarterly meetings on roadmap priorities)
For more information on what is included in the new Member support package, head to https://openalex.org/members
## We also offer higher tiers of membership
If your institution relies on higher volume access to OpenAlex or needs our time for additional services, we offer **Member+** and **Partner** support packages that include increased API quotas and consulting hours, in addition to all of the benefits listed above for **Member**. For more information on what’s included in each membership tier check out https://openalex.org/pricing/institutions.
## Why we’re doing this
OpenAlex is completely open research infrastructure that ingests, deduplicates, links, and enriches metadata so anyone in the world can build on a shared, open index of the global research system. Keeping that open takes real resources. Revenue from our existing paid subscriptions (previously called Premium and Institutional, but now Member+ and Partner) have been critical for our growth over the last few years. But we’ve heard from many institutions with less extensive service needs, that they would like a lighter weight option that costs less with fewer services— something similar to what other open infrastructures offer (e.g., ORCID). And so that’s what we’ve done!
## How to join
For more information on which membership level is right for your institution, head to https://openalex.org/pricing/institutions. If you’re ready to become an OpenAlex **Member** , **Member+** , or **Partner** , or would like to discuss these options further, send an e-mail to sales@openalex.org.
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