SBU Libraries holds active memberships and partnerships with a wide variety of consortia, organizations, and alliances. Following is a selected list:
- AAHSL (Association of Academic Health Sciences Libraries)
- AMS (American Mathematical Society)
- ARL (Association of Research Libraries)
- arXiv
- CLIR (the Council on Library and Information Resources)
- CNI (Coalition for Networked Information)
- Conference Board
- CRL (Center for Research Libraries)
- CROSSREF
- DLF (Digital Library Federation)
- Dryad
- DuraSpace (as a SUNY member)
- ICPSR (Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research)
- LILRC (Long Island Library Resources Council)
- MEDLI (Medical and Scientific Libraries of Long Island)
- NISO LSA (Library Standards Alliance)
- OCLC Research Library Partnership
- ORCID
- Roper Center for Public Opinion Research
- SLC (SUNY Libraries Consortium)