Members receive a quarterly Journal. This contains a calendar of events, articles on various aspects of mapping, a selection of the papers presented at IMCoS Symposia, summaries of meetings, book reviews, exhibition news, letters to the editor, reports from International Representatives, messages from the society officers and advertisements. The Journal Editor welcomes articles, news and information for publication.

A Journal Index has been published covering the period from the first Journal Issue No.1 in 1980 to Journal Issue No.59 published in Winter 1994. This contains an index of themes, people, maps reproduced, activities, authors, book reviews, letters to the editor, obituaries and winners of the IMCoS Tooley Award (now the IMCoS Helen Wallis Award). This is available from the Editor, S. Gole: e-mail susan.gole@onetel.net

Previous numbers of the Journal, the Journal Index and Bulletins are also available from the Editor at the following prices:

Previous Journals: £3 new format (from Spring 2004), £1.50 old format (up to Winter 2003),
Bulletins £0.50 and Journal Index £5

Please note that most of the very early editions of the Journal are only available as photocopies.

Published in association with the Journal is a series of IMCoS Bulletins, which are designed as practical aids to the collector. It is planned for the series to comprise 10 bulletins:

1. Judging a map's condition (Bulletin 1)
2. Distinguishing fake from real (Bulletin 2)
3. Looking after antique maps and prints (Bulletin 3)
4. Photographing your maps (Bulletin 4)
5A. Mounting maps and prints
5B. Framing maps and prints
6. Small repairs to antique maps
7. Cataloguing map collections
8. Insurance for map collections
9. Libraries and museums with maps
10. Map Societies worldwide

Bulletins 1 to 6 and Bulletin 8 have been published in the IMCoS Journal. The others will follow in due course.