About fees

Free for non-profits and individuals

Membership is free for non-profit organizations and individual documentarians*.

For-profits - first year free

Other organizations, "for-profits", are asked to pay an annual membership fee, based on the number of documentary listings linked to their organization's professional listing.

Right now the first year of membership is free
Join and pay no membership fees for the first 12 months of your membership.

Annual membership fees

Annual membership fees vary depending on the number of documentary listings containing a link to an organization's group listing.

Annual Membership Rates as of 4/1/2002

Annual Membership
Fee
(US$) 		 #
Documentary Links
Included 		Fee for Each Additional
Library Link
(US$)
$50 2 $20.00
150 10 13.50
350 30 10.50
1,000 100 10.00

* except in situations outlined at the right

When does a non-profit organization or individual documentarian have to pay?

Individual documentarians and non-profit organizations are asked to pay annual membership fees when the web address in the IDLS contains a direct, or two-step link to a commercial web site**, for example:
  • a direct link would be the use of a commercial distribution company's url in an IDLS listing
  • a two-step link would occur when a member's web site contains a link to a commercial distribution company like Amazon.com

In either case, before the link can be displayed in IDLS listings, we require that the for-profit group join the IDLS or the IDLS member can pay an annual membership fee as would a for-profit organization.

** A commercial web site is any web site owned by a for-profit organization, or run as a taxable subsidiary of a non-profit organization.

Have questions? Contact us.


International Documentary Library Service, Inc.
P.O. Box 1158 Concord, MA 01742-1158 USA 978-337-6425