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journal and magazine articles

 As well as paying money to script and book writers, ALCS also pays money to writers for the articles that they have had published in journals and magazines in the UK.

The journals scheme operates in a different way to other ALCS streams of income in that writers are asked to claim for the articles they have had published in order to receive their share of the income.

The money is collected through the Copyright Licensing Agency’s (CLA) photocopying licensing scheme.

The journals scheme

In order to claim for articles written in UK based journals and magazines we require the following pieces of information:

• the ISSN of the journal/ magazine
• the date of publication
• the title of the journal/ magazine
• the title of the article
• the approximate word count
• the names of any co-authors where applicable

Parameters of the scheme

ALCS pays out money to writers who have contributed to ALL types of journals/magazines published in print in the UK. We do not however, pay any money to writers who have contributed to newspapers or their supplementary magazine. For information about contributions to newspapers please contact the newspaper licensing agency (NLA). ALCS does not at the current time collect any money for articles published on the internet.

ALCS is currently accepting submissions for articles written from January 2005 onwards.

How to claim?

Members of ALCS can claim for their share of the journals/magazine income by downloading the journals form here, or by using the members’ area of this site which allows you to update your works online.