Rights & Permissions
Standard Permissions
In general, a purchaser does not need permission to use WPS-proprietary test materials, with the following key provisions:
No reproduction, adaptation, or translation of the materials may be made for any purpose, in any format, electronic or otherwise, without the prior written permission of the copyright holder.
All materials must be purchased and used by, or under the direct supervision of, a qualified professional.
All materials must be used ethically and for the purposes and in the manner for which they are intended.
View a copy of a standard permission policy letter from WPS Rights & Permissions >
Special Permissions Arrangements
We excel in creating what we think of as “special brews”: customized permission arrangements that we craft for qualified researchers or clinicians who are precluded from purchasing and using original published material as is. If you would like to request authorization, contact WPS Rights & Permissions at rights@wpspublish.com. We help qualified individuals and organizations arrange for authorized reprinting, adaptation, or use in translation of our copyrighted materials.
What Can WPS Rights & Permissions Do to Serve You?
Scholarly Discounts
Every day we field and approve applications for Research, Educational, and Independent Training discounts on the regular price of WPS proprietary materials. Our direct and daily involvement with universities and other institutions of higher learning helps us keep professors and researchers informed as to when they need to request permission to use our materials.
Scholarly Research Permissions
WPS Rights & Permissions routinely handle requests related to reprints, adaptations, and translations of WPS proprietary materials in research and training. For example, a researcher may need to translate a test for use in a peer-reviewed scholarly study, adapt WPS materials for use with disabled students, or copy a table from a test manual to include in a textbook. Rights & Permissions works to provide any assistance needed in these situations and more.
To request permission for scholarly research studies, please complete and submit this online application.
To request permission for use of materials in a clinical setting (non-pharmaceutical), please complete and submit this online application.
To request permission for the use of material in a pharmaceutical setting, please complete and submit this online application.
To request permission for the reproduction of material in a book or journal, please complete and submit this online application.
Commercial Licensing
For commercial licensing requests, please contact rights@wpspublish.com directly with your inquiry.
Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs)
If you don’t find the information that addresses your particular question for WPS Rights & Permissions, please don’t hesitate to e-mail us at rights@wpspublish.com. Go ahead, challenge us!
WPS Rights & Permissions grants permission for reprints, adaptations, translations, and other modifications to qualified researchers and organizations.
Permission request forms to adapt or reprint:
To request permission, please complete and submit the appropriate online permission request form linked above. If you don’t see your request listed, reach out at rights@wpspublish.com.
Common examples of the types of licensing arrangements we assist with include, but are not limited to:
- Integrating assessment materials into an online environment (such as SurveyMonkey) within a customized research battery
- Translating an assessment for use in a scholarly study
- Digitizing and translating assessment materials for use in a pharmaceutical study and research team training
Please note: No reprinting, adaptation, translation, or other modification of copyrighted WPS materials – whether in whole or in part, in any format – is permitted without prior written authorization from WPS Rights & Permissions. License fees may apply.
WPS strongly discourages this practice. If you have a scientific, research-based or practice-based need that prevents you from using original, WPS-published materials, please contact rights@wpspublish.com to learn of the pre-approved, per-use licensing options that might be available to accommodate your particular needs.
You must formally request permission before adapting or translating assessment materials for research purposes. This includes adaptations for digital platforms (e.g., Qualtrics) or translations into other languages. Each request is reviewed individually to ensure compliance with copyright and licensing terms. Please submit your request via our online application forms found here.
No, we do not grant complimentary use of material for research purposes. However, in consideration of relieving costs for research or educational purposes, WPS does offer a few discount programs applicable for the purchase of formally published proprietary WPS materials. You may find the appropriate application needed on the Discounts page.
For information about the WPS Research Discount (for use of WPS-published materials in time-stamped, peer-reviewed scientific investigation), including an online application form, please click here.
If your discount is approved, you will receive a special code that you will use to apply your particular discount arrangement on any given WPS order through the discount’s expiration date.
As a general reference, the WPS Research Discount is typically 20% off the cost of test kits and traditional print materials. It is offered on a pre-approved, project-by-project basis (for the life of the project, as necessary), and is not available retroactively to previous orders.
Please note that the WPS Research Discount cannot be applied to:
- Video training items or continuing education (CE) materials
- Products that WPS does not publish, but distributes on behalf of other publishers (WPS items can be identified by a product code beginning with “W-…”)
- Products purchased before the discount was secured
To request permission to include assessment materials within a textbook or handbook, please submit an application via our online form, here. Please specify the assessment material you wish to reprint, as well as the title and edition (if applicable) of the publication in which it will appear. Include the name of the publisher, the estimated publication date, and the anticipated print run.
Yes. Whether you're including tables, figures, or excerpts in a thesis, article, or grant submission, you must request permission to reproduce this material and receive a formal license from WPS Rights & Permissions. This applies even for nonprofit or academic use.
No. Even if the WPS assessment form content is found online, the copyright and intellectual property rights to the material are held by WPS. Thus, any unauthorized, unlicensed, and/or unpermitted reproduction is an infringement of WPS's intellectual property rights.
paper forms?
No. Purchasing paper forms does not grant the right to reproduce WPS copyrighted materials in an online survey format. Such adaptations require a separate agreement and may be subject to license fees. All requests are reviewed and approved on a case-by-case basis.
Permission must be granted by WPS Rights & Permissions to reproduce any WPS materials, including test items, in a scholarly paper or journal. Please click here to submit an application for permission.
Click here to download a PDF of a standard letter of permission for use of WPS proprietary materials in a scholarly study (without adaptations or modifications). If your institution requires you to have a standard permission letter addressed specifically to you, please contact rights@wpspublish.com.
Yes. Our office aims to accommodate as best as we can in these cases. A direct request can be made to our office at rights@wpspublish.com.
Yes, you do need to purchase assessment forms if you are going to use them in administration. In keeping with recognized professional and ethical principles of test use, and per domestic and international copyright law, professionally developed psychological test materials may not be reprinted, reproduced, or photocopied.
The WPS Independent Trainer Discount is designed for independent trainers (e.g. an author-trained professional, independent of a WPS course series, who is contracted by a hospital or clinic to train its staff in proper use of WPS-published materials for clinical or research use) of specialized assessments such as the Autism Diagnostic Observation Schedule, Second Edition (ADOS®-2) and Autism Diagnostic Interview, Revised (ADI®-R); the application form is found at this link.
When your discount is approved, you will receive a quote, good for 60 days and including all applicable discounts, which you can use to complete your order directly through WPS Customer Service (as will be detailed on your quote).
As a general reference, the WPS Independent Trainer Discount is usually 20% off the cost of one kit (as may be required for the trainer to use on-site), 50% off the cost of consumable materials required for use in formal instruction, and 10% off the cost of 10+ manuals (on a single order, to a single destination). The WPS Independent Training Discount is offered on a pre-approved, purchase-by-purchase basis, and is not available retroactively to previous orders.
Please note that the WPS Independent Training Discount cannot be applied to:
- Video training items or CE materials
- Products that WPS does not publish, but distributes on behalf of other publishers (WPS items can be identified by a product code beginning with “W-…”)
- Products purchased before the discount was secured
WPS strongly suggests you acquire the test instrument’s manual or handbook for its full and proper review, noting that the vast majority of our manuals/handbooks contain full samples of the instrument, along with comprehensive discussions of the measure’s development, administration, scoring, and interpretation.
If you are conducting a scholarly, peer-reviewed study, you may qualify for a WPS Research Discount for purchase of the manual; click here for information on how to apply, noting that the discount must be secured in advance of placing an order.
As a general reference, the WPS Independent Trainer Discount is usually 20% off the cost of one kit (as may be required for the trainer to use on-site), 50% off the cost of consumable materials required for use in formal instruction, and 10% off the cost of 10+ manuals (on a single order, to a single destination). The WPS Independent Training Discount is offered on a pre-approved, purchase-by-purchase basis, and is not available retroactively to previous orders.
Also – and because all materials sold by WPS come with a generous 90-day money-back guarantee (details available from customerservice@wpspublish.com) – you can order the manual for review without any risk except for shipping/handling charges and local taxes (though the latter will apply only if your order was shipped to a California destination).
WPS discourages the dissemination of psychological assessments to those not qualified to use and interpret them. It is our position that only qualified mental health professionals should have direct access to raw data, assessment questions, answer sheets, scoring keys and interpretive materials; and that psychological assessment materials should be withheld from the public record. If a person believes that they require access to these materials, and that person is not a qualified mental health professional, it is our position the person should review the materials solely under counsel of someone who is a qualified mental health professional, in which event photocopies should not be necessary.
Our concern goes beyond copyright, which in and of itself is an important consideration. By limiting the access of psychological material to qualified mental health professionals, we serve to assist in protecting the security and integrity of assessment questions, to prevent possible compromise to the objectivity and fairness of the assessment process, and to protect a person's responses from unqualified interpretation.
For additional reference in this regard, see “Standards for Educational and Psychological Testing”, jointly developed by the American Educational Research Association (AERA), the American Psychological Association (APA) and the National Council on Measurement in Education (NCME), and published by AERA (www.aera.net). As an additional point of information, see the article in the December 1999 edition of APA's American Psychologist (Vol. 54, No. 12, 1078), titled "Test Security: Protecting the Integrity of Tests."
WPS strongly discourages dissemination of psychological assessments to those not qualified to use and interpret them. Although WPS deeply appreciates and values the role of parents and guardians in the assessment process, our policy position is that only qualified professionals should have direct access to raw data, assessment questions, answer sheets, scoring keys and interpretive materials, and that psychological assessment materials should be withheld from the public record.
If a parent believes they require access to these materials, and the parent is not a qualified professional, our recommendation is that the parent review the materials solely under counsel of someone who is qualified, in which event reproductions should not be necessary.
Our concern goes beyond copyright, itself an important consideration: By limiting the access of psychological material to qualified professionals, we protect the security and integrity of assessment questions, prevent possible compromise to the objectivity and fairness of the assessment process, and safeguard a child's responses from unqualified interpretation.
Only qualified professionals should have direct access to raw data, test items, answer sheets, scoring keys and interpretive materials such as would be found in an assessment manual. WPS does not intend to interfere with court orders, but we urge the court to act responsibly by making psychological assessment material available only to those qualified professionals who have a legitimate need to review materials for the purposes of a given case. If attorneys or other individuals related to the case require access to the materials, WPS believes they should review them solely under counsel of a qualified professional, and we further urge that psychological assessment materials be withheld from the public record.
In the event the court should nevertheless determine to release assessment materials to those unqualified to obtain and use them - an act we believe has the potential to jeopardize the security and integrity of our proprietary materials - we hope the court would require that such materials be returned to the originating professional at the end of the proceedings, and that the court would expressly prohibit the reproduction of such materials in any manner.
Our concern goes beyond copyright, which in and of itself is an important consideration. By limiting the access of psychological material, we serve to assist in protecting the security and integrity of assessment questions, to prevent possible compromise to the objectivity and fairness of the assessment process, and to protect a person's responses from unqualified interpretation by court personnel and others with access to the court.
For additional reference in this regard, see “Standards for Educational and Psychological Testing”, jointly developed by the American Educational Research Association (AERA), the American Psychological Association (APA) and the National Council on Measurement in Education (NCME), and published by AERA (http://www.aera.net). As an additional point of information see the article in the December 1999 edition of APA's American Psychologist (Vol. 54, No. 12, 1078), titled "Test Security: Protecting the Integrity of Tests."
WPS does offer selected titles in Spanish translation. For information on which materials are available in Spanish from WPS (wpspublish.com), just type “Spanish” in that website’s search bar. Selected WPS titles, along with many other titles, are published in Spanish under WPS contract by the following companies:
- Editorial Manual Moderno of Mexico City (www.manualmoderno.com)
- Hogrefe TEA Ediciones, S.A. of Madrid (www.teaediciones.com)
WPS has continuously growing relationships with experienced, qualified assessment publishers in countries around the world. To view our comprehensive list of WPS publications offered internationally in formally published language editions, and the sources from which they’re available, please click here. If you do not see a title that you need in a language in which you need to administer it, please contact rights@wpspublish.com to learn of the possibilities, noting that a variety of our instruments have available what are considered “research translations” that are available solely from WPS Rights & Permissions, and only for use in registered scientific investigations.
As a general rule, please note that simultaneous translation (also known as “translation on the fly”) working from English materials of psychological test materials is not only prohibited by WPS, its practice is inconsistent with internationally recognized best testing practices regarding proper cross-cultural adaptation of psychometrically-developed instruments.
In keeping with long-standing WPS policy and practice, please send your correspondence for the author directly to WPS Rights & Permissions at rights@wpspublish.com, and we will forward the request accordingly.
Several ADOS-2 translations have been officially licensed to our international publishing partners and are available for all research and clinical applications. WPS Rights & Permissions can also arrange authorization for academically qualified groups to make research-only translations for the ADOS-2 in languages where no commercial versions are underway.
For information about formally published ADOS translations and in press ADOS-2 translations, click here.
To obtain permission to make a translation or to inquire further about translations, please contact WPS Rights & Permissions at rights@wpspublish.com.
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