ALPSP provides practice notes, checklists and guidelines written by members and others.  The Advice Notes offer valuable information on subjects such as copyright and other legal issues, agreements, licensing, marketing, production, journal publishing and more. 

ALPSP Advice Notes are available to Members Only

All documents are in PDF format

1. Copyright - basic definitions and terms
2. Copyright in abstracts and tables of contents
3. Licensing business models for e-journals
4. Authors and Copyright
5. Permissions
6. Licensing journal electronic rights to aggregators
7. Putting your journals online
8. The Journal Editor's Contract
9. The Society-Publisher Contract
10. Copyright in journals
11. The European Copyright Directive
12. Table of Contents statement
13. Licensing e-book rights
14. Journal Title Changes
15. Fair Dealing and Library Privilege
16. Maximising website visibility
17. Email Good Practice
18. When a society journal changes publisher: ALPSP guidelines for good practice
19. Making National Journals Internationally Visible
20. Legal Deposit
21. Managing the Editorial Office
22. Web Site Accessibility
23. Metadata - an essential Web writing skill
24. US Legal Deposit obligations of non-US publishers
25. Selling Book and Journal Rights in China
26. Making the Impact Factor work for you
27. Deals, Bundles and Packages:  revenue allocation issues
28. Enabling Google to index your full text content
29. Content Management: is your publication process fit for the future you want to create?
30. Copyright Infringement
31. RSS: A New Marketing and Delivery Tool for Journal Publishers
32. Changes to the ISBN
33. Outsourcing Primary Journal Hosting
34. Direct Marketing within the Law
35. Libel: the basics
36. Importing and Exporting Publications in the EU
37. CrossRef
38. Piracy of eBooks and other Scholarly Content - the RSC experience
39. Publishing Animal Research: Advice for journal editors and publishers