The Geological Society of London is listed on H M Revenue and Custom’s ‘List 3’. This shows those bodies for which members may be able to claim tax relief on subscriptions.
If you pay an annual membership fee to the Geological Society of London out of your own pocket, you are a UK taxpayer and you meet the conditions set out in the Declaration on the form, you may be able to get tax relief for these costs.
Please download the tax relief form to supply the required details to the tax office.
When you have completed and signed it, please send the form to your tax office. Do not send it to the Geological Society. Your employer should be able to tell you the address of your tax office if you do not know it.
Membership terms and conditions for the access and use of electronic services
- Fellows are provided with login details (username and password) with which they may access restricted sections of the Society’s website, as well as GSL subscribed journals chosen from the Lyell Collection. Additional Geological Society of London journals in the collection can be added to membership for a small additional fee.
- Login details are provided solely for the personal use of Fellows (ie to assist in their own learning, research or work). Login details may not be shared with, or provided to, any other person for any purpose, nor may material accessed or downloaded by any Fellow be shared with, or provided to, any other person.
- Fellows are permitted to make reasonable use of electronic content hosted on the Lyell Collection. “Reasonable use” is considered to be up to 75 article downloads per month, but should in no case exceed 100 article downloads per month.
- The Society actively monitors usage and will contact Fellows whose download rates appear excessive. If excessive downloads continue the Society reserves the right to re-set Fellows’ login details or, in extreme cases, bar access to electronic services altogether.
- From 2010 all Fellows’ journal subscriptions derived as a benefit of Society membership are online-only. Additional print copies may be available on payment of a surcharge provided membership registration or renewal is complete by 1st January of the relevant journal subscription year. There is no guarantee that late requests for print subscriptions (ie those received after 1st January) can be honoured.
- Fellows who wish to retain a copy of record of their journal(s) of choice should download and save PDFs of relevant journal articles for safe keeping, or secure print copies as described in 5, above.
- The Proceedings of the Yorkshire Geological Society (PYGS) and the Scottish Journal of Geology (SJG) are not GSL journals. Once you have joined another membership organisation you will be provided with a separate username and password to access the relevant content, by that organisation. Please contact the relevant membership secretary if you do not have your membership number. Fellows can access content of the relevant journal by using Pay-per-view Access, purchasing a non-member subscription or by joining:
Membership terms and conditions for the access and use of Library services
- Fellows can borrow maps from the Geological Society Library but must note that if a map is within its period of copyright protection, the laws of the United Kingdom currently forbid any copying or scanning of maps without permission of the copyright holder.
The Code of Conduct applies to all members of the Society. Some other professional bodies refer instead to a Code of Ethics or a Code of Professional Ethics.
Members of the Geological Society found to be in breach of the Code of Publishing Ethics will also be in breach of the Society’s Code of Conduct.
View the full Code of ConductInformation about your membership details, updating your MyGSL and other general account queries can be found in the to the 'Manage your membership' area. For any specific enquiries, please contact membership@geolsoc.org.uk
Details about renewing your membership can be found in the 'Renewals' area, or feel free to reach out to renewals@geolsoc.org.uk
To speak to someone from the Membership Team on the phone, please call +44 (0)20 7432 0981
The Geological Society of London, Burlington House, Piccadilly, London, W1J 0BG
Go to main membership pageRenew your membership via the renewals page. If you have any questions, you can visit the renewals FAQs page for answers or reach out to renewals@geolsoc.org.uk
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