GEM offers two membership categories: GEM Member for educators wanting advanced personalization functionality to enhance their GEM experience and GEM Consortium Member for individuals and organizations wanting to contribute to the building of The Gateway repository of educational resources.
GEM Membership Categories
Using the The GatewaySM is free to everyone, without membership. Consortium membership in GEM is only necessary if you would like your records made available in our search engine. There is no fee to join the GEM consortium.
| Membership Category | Description | Login Required |
| GEM Guest | GEM's non-member, default category for educator's visiting the site and wanting to access resources and services. | No |
| GEM Member | GEM's free member category for educators wanting to take advantage of the GEM personalization services to be implemented in the near future including bookmarking GEM resources for later use and the GEM Alert email service for notification when resources meeting a profile established by the member are added to The GatewaySM | Yes |
| GEM Consortium Member | GEM's member category for individuals and organizations with educational resources wishing to make access to those resources available through The GatewaySM. There is a special category of Consortium membership for organizations representing GEM user groups. | Yes |
