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.