The founding partners are The Publishers Association of the UK, the Association of Learned and Professional Society Publishers, and the International Association of Scientific, Technical & Medical Publishers. Corresponding partners include The Association of American University Presses and the Professional/ Scholarly Publishing Division of the Association of American Publishers.

The work of the Publishing Research Consortium is coordinated by a Steering Group; a wider Advisory Group is called upon for consultation and advice. Research proposals are subject to peer review as appropriate, which in time may lead to the establishment of an Editorial Board. Funding is sourced on a project-by-project basis from the associations, from individual publishers, and from interested third parties.

The Publishers Association (PA)
The Publishers Association (PA) is the focal point where UK publishers meet to identify and discuss the issues challenging their industry and to develop the policies that will define the PA’s campaigns aiming to support the trading environment for our industry. Our activity includes promoting the role of publishing in scholarly communication, textbook availability for students, high standards of provision for university libraries, respect for copyright and the need for effective management of digital rights.

The Association of Learned and Professional Society Publishers (ALPSP)
The Association of Learned and Professional Society Publishers (ALPSP) represents the community of not-for-profit publishers and those who work with them to disseminate academic and professional information. ALPSP monitors national and international issues and represents members' interests to the wider world. The Association offers an extensive programme of education, training and development. ALPSP has an informative website (www.alpsp.org) and also publishes a quarterly journal, Learned Publishing and an electronic newsletter, ALPSP Alert.

The International Association of Scientific, Technical and Medical Publishers (STM)
The International Association of Scientific Technical & Medical Publishers(STM) is a broad organisation which includes large and small companies, not-for-profit organisations and learned societies, traditional primary and secondary publishers and new players. The mission of STM is to create a platform for exchanging ideas and information and to represent the interest of the STM publishing community in the fields of copyright, technology developments, and end user/library relations.

The Association of American University Presses
The Association of American University Presses is an organization of not-for-profit scholarly publishers. The Association's professional development opportunities, cooperative programs, and information resources help to facilitate member presses' creative and effective scholarly communications. The Association represents its members' interests to the public on a wide variety of national and international publishing and scholarship issues.

The Professional/Scholarly Publishing Division of the Association of American Publishers
Members of the Professional/Scholarly Publishing Division of the American Association of Publishers publish the vast majority of materials used in the US by scholars and professionals in science, medicine, technology, business, law, reference, social science and the humanities and are worldwide disseminators, archivists, and shapers of scientific research via print and electronic means. The Division's 100-plus professional societies, commercial publishers and university presses produce books, journals, computer software, databases and electronic products.