In 1942, the Academy published its first set of "Yearbooks," which are collections of articles relating to OMM, including original articles, others reprinted from medical publications, unpublished papers and lectures. Nine of these yearbooks are still in print and available to all. The AAO has preserved 52 yearbooks on a single CD-ROM viewable using acrobat Reader software.

More recently, the AAO has become a publisher of original works and others which are no longer in print, e.g. An Endocrine Interpretation of Chapman's Reflexes and several of A.T. Still's original works. There are currently 18 AAO publications in print. The AAO has become a distributor of other works printed by small publishers, e.g. Hildreth's The Lengthening Shadow of A.T. Still and Jones Strain-Counter Strain by Lawrence H. Jones, DO, FAAO. While this does not represent all the osteopathic literature in print, it does cover the waterfront of OMM publications.

In 1991, the Academy published the first issue of the AAO Journal, which has earned profession-wide acclamation for its quality. Editor Anthony Chila has followed the lead of inaugural Editor Raymond Hruby to elevate the quarterly Journal to a juried publication on OMM, a move which is expected to expand the publication to all physicians interested in "manual medicine." The Board of Trustees added in 1993 The AAO Newsletter, which is considered the official vehicle of communication to AAO members and is published eight times annually.