Partner with us to expand your publication's reach

Partner with Informit to expand your publication’s reach to researchers, educators, and communities across Australasia and beyond. Our 30+ year track record of partnering with publishers, societies, and research centres, combined with our commitment to fostering diversity in publishing and promoting critical thinking, has made us a trusted destination for scholarly and cultural content. We’re committed to supporting voices that contribute to better informed and knowledgeable communities, including dedicated support for Indigenous scholarship and independent publishers.

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Benefits to Partnering with Informit

Your voice, amplified

Informit exists to amplify Australian and Australasian scholarship, research, and cultural publishing and ensure that it reaches the audiences that need it. We partner with over 600 publishers, from university presses and professional associations to Indigenous community organisations and independent literary journals. Our collection is accessed by every Australian and New Zealand university library, plus school, public, government, and specialist libraries across the country and internationally.

We are owned by RMIT University. Every dollar we earn goes back into sustaining the platform, paying publisher royalties, and funding programs like our annual Kummargii Yulendji Symposium and First Peoples’ Lens Cultural Fund. When you partner with us, your work sits alongside the most comprehensive collection of Australasian content available anywhere, discovered by researchers, students, teachers, and communities who cannot find it through any other single source.

What we offer publishers

Reach: Your content is available to every Australian and New Zealand universities, state libraries, and a growing community of school, public, and international library subscribers. We handle licensing, access management, metadata, and discovery. You focus on publishing.

Revenue: We pay royalties based on usage through a transparent pool-share model.

Visibility: We actively promote our publishers through social media campaigns, author interviews, subject spotlights, and events. We want you to be seen. Every new title announcement is co-posted with the publisher. Every subject collection spotlight names the publishers whose work makes it possible.

Preservation: Content hosted on Informit has persistent access and robust discovery through Google Scholar, EBSCO, Primo, and all major library discovery services. We have been doing this for over 30 years. Your content does not disappear.

Flexibility: Our agreements are non-exclusive. You keep your rights, you can work with other platforms, and you can publish OA, subscription, or both. We support traditional and Open Access models and can help you transition between them.

Who partners with us

Our 600+ publisher partners include Aboriginal Studies Press, ACER, the Tax Institute, UNSW Law, Sydney Law School, Engineers Australia, the Australian Institute of Criminology, Meanjin (QUT), Griffith REVIEW, and hundreds of professional associations, learned societies, and university research centres. If you are an Australian or Australasian publisher producing scholarly, professional, educational, or cultural content, you belong here.

 

For Indigenous publishers and community organisations

We are committed to amplifying First Peoples’ research and knowledge. Our First Peoples’ Lens program, the annual Kummargii Yulendji Symposium, the Indigenous Scholars You Should Know series, and the First Peoples’ Lens Cultural Fund exist to support and celebrate First Peoples-centred publishing. If your organisation produces content that reflects Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander, Māori, or Pacific peoples’ knowledge, we want to hear from you. We will work with you on terms, formats, and timelines that respect your community’s priorities.

How it works

  1. Get in touch. Tell us about your publication and what you are looking for.
  2. We review the content against our curation criteria and discuss terms. Our standard agreement is non-exclusive, publisher-friendly, and straightforward.
  3. You supply the content in PDF or XML format. We handle metadata, loading, and quality assurance.
  4. Your content goes live on Informit, discoverable by our entire subscriber base.
  5. You receive usage reports and royalty payments, and we promote your work through our channels.