Association of Research Libraries

The Information Access Alliance (IAA) is a joint initiative of leading US national library organizations to address problems in the scholarly and legal publishing markets, which are characterized by insupportably high prices, accelerating industry consolidation, and anti-competitive practices by some large publishers.

IAA supports a competitive, vibrant, and diverse academic publishing marketplace in which the interests of research, academic institutions, and the public are well served. IAA works with legal experts and economists to advocate adoption of better antitrust review standards by state and federal antitrust enforcement agencies.

IAA is based in Washington DC and is on the Web at http://www.informationaccess.org/.