As a faculty member at WVU, you have access to memberships from several different organizations to help you grow as an education professional. The WVU Teaching and Learning Center sponsors institutional membership to the Textbook & Academic Authors Association (TAA). This means our instructors, staff, and graduate students can claim their professional membership free of charge.
The Textbook & Academic Authors Association (TAA) is the only association devoted solely to supporting authors of textbooks, scholarly journal articles and academic books by providing comprehensive resources, events and networking opportunities, and by advocating on their behalf.
How to Claim Your Membership
- Begin by following this link to TAA’s website: Textbook and Academic Authors Association
- Enter your WVU email address into the text box to register
- Create a password for your membership and proceed to confirm it in the text boxes that appear on the screen
- Click the “Create Profile” button at the bottom right of the text box from step 3
- Proceed to fill in the required information for your account once you are redirected to the new page. All required information will be marked with a red asterisk
- Once you fill in the required information, click the “Next” button
- You will be redirected to a page that will ask if you have published either academic writing or textbooks. You will select either, “I am published” or “I am unpublished”. If you select “I am published,” a survey will pop up below to complete regarding the publication(s) you have been on. Fill out this survey and then click the “Submit” button. If you select “I am unpublished,” you will select “Submit” button.
- You have now completed your registration and will receive a confirmation email shortly