IRA Membership Categories & Rates
Find the right membership for you
- Regular individual… right for working professionals in the literacy field.
- Student…discounted rates are available for up to five years to students enrolled in an undergraduate or graduate degree program.
- Emeritus…special rates for those fully retired and who have been an IRA member continuously for 10 years or more.
- Developing economy...special options available for residents of developing economies.
- 25-year members...special rates are available for those who have been an IRA member for 25 or more years. Please contact customer service or call 800-336-7323 (U.S. and Canada) or 302-731-1600.
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Membership rates with print or online* journals
All IRA members may subscribe to one or more of our journals. Basic members enjoy the full benefits of membership but do not receive a journal. Regular individual, student, emeritus, and 25-year memberships include Reading Today, IRA’s bimonthly print newspaper. Developing economy members may purchase Reading Today separately.
Prices are in U.S. dollars. All memberships have a one-year duration.
| Regular Individual | Student & Emeritus |
| Membership Rates | Print & Online | Online only | Print & online | Online only |
Membership with one journal
| $69 | $63 | $42 | $38 |
| Each additional journal | $30 | $24 | $18 | $14 |
| Basic Membership (Reading Today only) | $39 | $24 |
*Please note: If you join and subscribe online through our secure Marketplace, activating access to your online journals takes 4 to 6 hours from the time of purchase.
Special rates are available for residents of developing economies and schools and institutions.
Enhance your membership with these optional features
| Regular Individual | Student & Emeritus |
| Book Club: receive nine of IRA’s best new book titles during the membership year | $139 | $139 |
RRQ Library: online access to every issue since 1965
(for Reading Research Quarterly subscribers only) | $36 | $22 |
| Access IRA: full online access to all available issues of The Reading Teacher, Journal of Adolescent & Adult Literacy, and Reading Research Quarterly | $100 | $60 |