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No. Current reporting — articles published within the rolling two-year window — is freely accessible without registration or login. You can read everything we publish now, including coverage of active restoration projects, current exhibitions and museum openings, with no account required. A subscription is not a paywall on new content; it is a way to support the newsroom and access the historical archive, which stretches back to 2014 and contains over 1,400 articles.

The monthly digest is assembled by the newsroom editorial team and delivered by email at the end of each calendar month. It contains brief summaries of all significant pieces published in the preceding month, editorial notes on ongoing stories and where we expect them to develop, links to related archive pieces relevant to the current month's coverage, and occasional advance notice of forthcoming reporting that we cannot yet publish in full. The digest is delivered in both plain text and formatted HTML versions, according to the preference indicated at subscription. It does not contain advertising and is not shared with third parties.

Yes, and we encourage it. Our reporting is cited in conservation studies dissertations, heritage management research and Egyptological publications. Short quotations with clear attribution are permitted for all readers without prior permission. The preferred citation format is: Author Last, First. "Article Title." Heritage Conservation Review, Day Month Year. URL. Full republication of articles requires written permission, which we grant readily for educational and non-commercial purposes. Commercial republication is assessed individually. Institutional subscribers receive an educational licence that explicitly covers assigned readings, course packs and classroom use — details on the about page and in the institutional licence agreement.

The Institutional licence is available to any organisation rather than an individual reader: university faculties and departments, museum libraries, heritage agencies, government cultural bodies, and schools with heritage or conservation programmes. The standard institutional licence covers up to 25 concurrent users within a single named organisation and includes: full archive access for all covered users, the monthly digest, the educational licence for assigned readings and classroom use, and the option of IP-based access so individual users do not need to manage personal logins. Organisations with more than 25 regular users should contact the newsroom at [email protected] to discuss a custom arrangement. We have existing institutional subscribers in Egypt, the United Kingdom, Germany and the United States.

Individual subscriptions are processed through Stripe, which accepts Visa, Mastercard and American Express cards. Pricing is shown in USD; at checkout you can select Egyptian Pounds (EGP) or Euros (EUR) and the equivalent rate will be shown. Institutional subscribers may request an invoice for payment by bank transfer in EGP, USD or EUR — this is the standard arrangement for Egyptian university libraries, which typically require an invoice in EGP before purchase orders can be raised. To request an institutional invoice, contact Tarek Lewis at the newsroom address. Bank transfer arrangements do not attract any surcharge.

Subscriptions can be cancelled at any time from the account settings page, with no cancellation fee. Cancellation takes effect at the end of the current billing period — a monthly subscription cancelled on any day of the month remains active until the end of that month, and no further charge is made. Annual subscriptions cancelled within 14 days of the most recent renewal date are eligible for a full refund of the unused year, on request to the newsroom. There are no partial refunds for unused portions of a billing period beyond this 14-day window. Institutional subscriptions cancelled mid-year are not eligible for pro-rated refunds unless the newsroom has been notified of a significant change in the institution's circumstances — which we handle on a case-by-case basis. Contact us if you have questions about a specific situation.

Heritage Conservation Review's scope is specifically Egyptian museum conservation and the international partnerships that intersect with it. We do not cover conservation practice at non-Egyptian institutions except where the subject directly concerns Egyptian collections — an Egyptian loan to a European museum, for instance, or an international collaboration on a method being applied in Egypt. Our archive of Egyptian conservation journalism is extensive; for conservation practice more broadly, our coverage is not the right resource. We do, however, link from relevant pieces to external sources we consider authoritative — including the Getty Conservation Institute's publications, the ICOM-CC working group literature, and the Egyptian Supreme Council of Antiquities' reports — to give readers routes into wider professional literature.