News Release: PALCI and Authors Alliance Announce Consortium-Wide Partnership to Strengthen Scholarly Communication and Information Policy – PALCI

"The Partnership for Academic Library Collaboration and Innovation (PALCI) and Authors Alliance today announced a new consortium-wide partnership launching in 2026. This collaboration is Authors Alliance’s first partnership at consortium scale, creating a shared framework for supporting academic libraries and their authors as they navigate rapid change in scholarly communication, copyright, and information policy.

The partnership was made possible through financial commitments from PALCI and 26 of its member libraries, including four Leadership Circle contributors who chose to make a deeper investment in both the partnership and the broader PALCI community. Their combined support advances a new consortium-based model for engaging national policy expertise, ensuring shared benefits for all PALCI members, while enabling institutions with expanded involvement to help shape and lead this work.

Together, PALCI and Authors Alliance will work to strengthen institutional capacity and build a sustainable community of practice around publishing, copyright, and information policy. PALCI member institutions will gain ongoing access to expert consultation, timely analysis of legal and policy developments affecting higher education, shared learning opportunities on emerging issues such as artificial intelligence and open licensing, and coordinated collaboration on law and policy priorities that affect research libraries at scale."