Our Projects

Archive of Our Own
The Archive of Our Own offers a noncommercial and nonprofit central hosting place for fanfiction and other transformative fanworks, using open-source archiving software.

Fanlore
Fanlore, a fandom wiki, is devoted to preserving the history of transformative fanworks and the fandoms from which they have arisen.

Legal Advocacy
OTW is committed to protecting and defending fanworks from commercial exploitation and legal challenge.

Open Doors
Open Doors offers shelter to at-risk fannish projects. Subprojects include the Fan Culture Preservation Project, which preserves fanzines and other non-digital forms of fan culture, and the GeoCities Rescue Project.

Transformative Works and Cultures
TWC is a peer-reviewed academic journal that seeks to promote scholarship on fanworks and practices. We also publish a sister blog, the Symposium Blog, for the discussion of fannish meta topics and fannish perspectives on fan and media studies.

Vidding Projects
The OTW's vidding projects provide resources and services to the vidding community and explain and contextualize vidding to the larger world.