FAQs

1. What services does Indlaw Articles offer ?
Indlaw Articles, in association with Mondaq Ltd offers one of the largest and most comprehensive electronic resources of professionals' knowledge and expertise. Mondaq publishes legal, regulatory and financial commentary and information to the business community at large.

Articles appear here at Indlaw Articles , and all these articles are distributed by Mondaq to the major online databases such as Lexis-Nexis, Reuters, FT Profile, EIU, DowJones, Bloomberg, Dialog, RDS, Butterworths and WestLaw as well as through sector-specific websites. Click here for a full list of sites.

For a full list of products and services that can be purchased to compliment editorial contributions visit http://www.mondaq.com and click here to sign up

2. How can I search the articles on the website ?
To search the website choose search from the left hand side menu. You will then be presented a list of options to filter what information you need.

3. Do you publish in languages other than English?
Indlaw in association with Mondaq receive material in any language, as long as a brief summary of its subject matter is provided in English.

4. How do I unregister/unsubscribe with Mondaq services?
To stop receiving the Mondaq News Alert:

• Follow the Newalert link at Mondaq
• Click on unsubscribe
• You will no longer receive Mondaq News Alerts
  

To stop receiving other emails from Mondaq:

• Click on the "Your Profile" option on Mondaq.
• Tick the box labelled "Click here to not receive any future announcements of products and services offered by Mondaq"
• Click on "Update"
  

5. I have forgotten my login and password details, how can I find them out?
From the Mondaq login page, click on the link at the bottom of the page entitled Forgotten your password? You will be asked to type in your e-mail address. As long as your e-mail address matches the one you registered under, your user name and password details will be e-mailed to you.

Authors

1. What benefit is it to me to publish with Indlaw Article s?
Indlaw Articles will market you and your firm to the business community by displaying your knowledge and expertise in electronic form. Indlaw strategic alliance with Mondaq Ltd, ensures that major proprietary online database owners and other distributed websites publish your articles. This enables you to maximise the reach of your practice and that of your firm to your target market of business users. You supply us with articles, and we publish them online - putting you in front of your potential clients when they need you.

2. I would like to publish my articles with you. How can I becom e a Indlaw Articles Editorial Contributor?
Simply click here to go to our Editorial Confirmation form. Registration as an Editorial Contributor should take no longer than five minutes. You can then start submitting articles immediately.

3. How do you distribute my articles to your Distribution partners' services and websites?
In addition to Indlaw, all articles are released onto the major online business databases such as Lexis-Nexis, Reuters, FT Profile, EIU, DowJones, Bloomberg, Dialog, Butterworths and WestLaw. Other websites either take all of content, or take articles covering specific topic areas. Indlaw articles - Mondaq will index your article on receipt to ensure that it appears on all the relevant sector-specific websites.

4. Is there anyway you can feed my articles back to my firm's own website?
Yes: Mondaq can simplify your administration by republishing your articles on your firm's own website, using the same technology used to publish on our Distribution partners' sites. We call this "Client Site Publishing" and you can find more information about this by clicking here.

5. Can I find out who has been viewing our articles?
Mondaq offers Contributors the ability to monitor the effectiveness of their publishing activity. Management Reports allow you to see full details of who has been reading your articles and when, who has e-mailed you, and who has used click-throughs to your website as a result of reading their articles (subject to the UK Data Protection Act 1998).
If you are already an Editorial Contributor and would like to purchase access to Management Reports, simply click here to go to our Products pages.

6. How much will it cost to become an Editorial Contributor?
There is no set-up charge to publish your articles with Indlaw Articles - Mondaq. Every Editorial Contributor is entitled to publish up to three articles per year, every year, for no charge.
You can enhance your presence online by purchasing, if you wish, options such as an email link, firm logo, website link, photograph or personal phone and fax details. In addition, you can monitor user interest in your articles through our Management Reports.

7. Do I have to write the articles myself or can they be written by other members of my firm?
Every person who would like to publish articles is entitled to publish up to three articles per year, every year. We simply require that each author register with us as an Editorial Contributor by filling in the form here, which should take no longer than 5 minutes.
If you would like to sign up more than five Editorial Contributors from one firm, please contact us at articles@indlaw.com and we would be pleased to help you with the administration.
8. Can we publish articles with you that have previously been published?
If you own the copyright to the article, we can publish it for you. Unfortunately, Mondaq cannot accept responsibility for ensuring the correct copyright, so we ask that Editorial Contributors are certain of their right to publish.

9. Do you have any editorial guidelin es?
Yes, we do have editorial guidelines to assist our contributors. These are sent out automatically when you sign-up to be a contributor.

10. Which subjects should my article s cover?
Publishing with Indlaw Articles is an opportunity to demonstrate your specific areas of expertise, and as such it is your choice as to the topics you cover. If it is your aim to attract and recruit clients from your activity with Indlaw Articles, we recommend that you publish topical commentary, analysis or information which you know is affecting, or likely to affect, your target market.

11. Do the articles have to comply with a certain style or length?
There is no editorial style that contributors need to adhere to although we recommend that the article be no more than 5000 words. However, if you wish to make your article longer you will incur processing charges: £50 for an article which is between 5001 and 7500 words long; £100 for an article which is between 7501 and 15000 words long; and £150 for an article which is between 15001 and 30000 words long.

12. Where do I send my articles to?
All articles should be sent via e-mail to; articles@indlaw.com

13. What can I not publish?
We will publish anything that we deem appropriate to our website and our distribution partners. We will not publish anything that is not linked to legal, financial, regulatory, commercial or professional matter. We will not be responsible for the facts and matters that are published on our site, as outlined in the disclaimer below.
"Contributors to Indlaw Articles and/or of Mondaq Ltd are solely responsible for the facts and accuracy of all information submitted by them for transmission by Mondaq Ltd. The only responsibility of Mondaq Ltd shall be to use its reasonable efforts to correct any error of fact, timing or omission brought to its attention. Mondaq Ltd reserves the right to reject copy when necessary in its judgement."

14. What format should I send my article in?
All articles should be in electronic format and formatted in MS Word, unformatted text, HTML, ASCII or PDF. If you use another format you will incur a processing charge of £50.

15. Can I include graphs, tables, and footnotes in my articles?
Yes you can include graphs, tables and footnotes in your article, but you may incur the following processing charges: there is a charge of £50 for each table where your article contains 4 or more tables; there is a charge of £50 for each graphic where your article contains 4 or more graphics; and there is a charge of £50 for publishing articles with over 30 footnotes or endnotes.

16. How long will it take for my article to be pu blished online?
We endeavour to publish your article online within 3 days after our receipt of your contribution.

17. How will I know my article has gone online?
As soon as your article is ready for release on the system, you will be sent an email and a link to follow to preview the article, whereupon you will be able to make the article live yourself. It will be searchable on the search engine the next day.

18. What shall I do if I wish to make amendments to the article?
Should you wish to make any last minute amendments to your article, please resubmit it by sending it to mailto: articles@indlaw.com