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1. Brill
Over three centuries of scholarly publishing
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2. Brill
Key facts
• Scholarly publisher with offices in Leiden and
Boston (U.S.)
• Founded in 1683 in Leiden (Netherlands)
• Products are available in print and online
• Focus on Humanities, Social Sciences and
International Law

3. Brill products
Main subject areas
• Asian Studies
• International Law & Human Rights
• Biblical & Religious Studies
• Middle East & Islamic Studies
• Slavic Studies
• Biology
• Classical Studies
• Jewish Studies
• Language & Linguistics
• Social Sciences
• European History & Culture
Journals
Books
Reference works
&
Bibliographies
Primary Source
Materials

4. Brill products
Journals
• 175 journals
• Available in 3 options
– Individual titles (print or
online)
– Brill Online Only Journal
Collections (including
archive back to year 2000)
– Brill Journal Archives Online
(outright purchase), in 2 parts
(-1999, 2000-2009)

5. Brill products
E-Books
• Monographs, edited volumes, handbooks
(ca. 500 books p.a.)
• Available in 11 collections (since 2006/07)
– Humanities and Social Sciences (8 collections, e.g.
Biblical Studies, European History & Culture)
– International Law & Human Rights (2 collections)
– Biology (1 collection)
• Integration into library catalogue by MARC
21 records
• Simultaneous publication of print & e-
version
• 30% savings on comparable print value
• No overlap between collections

6. • +40 reference works & bibliographies
• Different types
– Encyclopedias (e.g. New Pauly, Enc. of Islam)
– Bibliographies (e.g. Int’l Study of Religion)
– Dictionaries (e.g. Dictionary of Religion)
– Text collections (e.g. Hague Academy
Collected Courses Online)
– Sources & commentaries (e.g. Context of
Scripture)
• Cross-reference keywords
Brill products
Reference Works

7. Brill products
Primary sources
• +50 research collections
• Original material, which scholars study
and interpret as a basis for their own
academic works
• Scans of different types of printed or
handwritten material:
– Pre-modern archival documents (e.g.
Sixteenth Century Pamphlets)
– Oriental manuscripts (e.g. MEMO)
– Printed art sales catalogues (e.g. Lugt)
– Contemporary (e.g. North China Herald)

8. BrillOnline.com
Connecting you…
… to over 800,000 documents
• 120,000 journal articles
• 25,000 e-book chapters
• 150,000 reference articles
• 510,000 bibliographic entries
Updated daily & growing continuously!

9. Ebooks: Brill Select & Brill
Patron Select
• Brill Select: Pick and Choose model, minimum of 20
titles per order, pricing is the same as print
• Brill Patron Select: Patron Driven Acquisition model,
full access for one year (calendar year or academic
year), only pay for titles which are downloaded 3
times or more
• Set your own maximum budget

10. E-books:
Where to
browse
for them

11. BrillOnline.com
Customized purchase options
• Two institutional license models
─ Subscription (yearly fee)
─ Outright purchase (one-off fee)
* Includes yearly installment fee (for products
w/ content updates)

12. Asian Studies
E-Books Collections
Coverage: China, Japan, Korea, Tibet, Kazakhstan,
Central Asia, South Asia, South East Asia,
History, Archeology, Sociology, Anthropology, Religion,
Philosophy, Languages
Number of titles in this
collection
2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 Total
Asian Studies E-Books Online 64 51 27 68 55 72 337
E-ISSN 1877-9239
Asian Studies
E-Books Collections
Asian Studies E-Books Online – 2007-2012 – price 34 100 EURO

13. Scope
• Based on 1000-page reference work (by GIGA)
• Focus on modern China (1850 until today)
• History, geography, society, economy, politics, science, culture
Asian Studies
Encyclopedia of China Online
Features & benefits
• 450 articles, 850k words
• 100 illustrations, maps, tables
• Annual additions (new content,
statistical updates)
• Also available in print
Outright Purchase Price €520.00
Annual Subscription Price €100.00

14. Asian Studies
Russian Military Intelligence on
Asia Online
Brill offers two collections of Russian military
intelligence on Asia, namely the Archive Series and
the Secret Prints. Together, they comprise a wealth
of hitherto virtually unknown data about Asia that
were gathered before the 20th century by
explorers, military attachés, diplomats, academics,
and others.
• Archive series, 1651-1917
• Secret prints, 1883-1914
Primary Sources
Archive series – Outright Purchase Price 12.970 EURO
Secret prints – Outright Purchase Price 6.090 EURO

15. Central Asia, ISBN 9789004197039
(http://www.brill.nl/central-asia)

16. International Law & Human Rights

17. Scope
• The Foreign Law Guide (FLG) is an online only database containing
information on sources of foreign law in over 170 jurisdictions.
• Snapshots of the country’s legal history, judicial and legislative
systems, proceeding to local sources of legal information, internet
sources, and major publications.
Law
Foreign Law Guide
Features & benefits
• Number of countries covered is
expanded annually
• Since 1988
• Used mainly by scholars,
researchers, practitioners, and
students
Subscription: 1.620 EURO

18. Scope
• Hague Academy of International Law is a center for high-level
education in international law
• HACCO includes courses given by leading specialists, including
academics, practitioners, diplomats (in English and French)
Int‘l Law | Hague Academy
Collected Courses Online
Features & benefits
• Since 1923
• So far 375 volumes
• New content added throughout
the year
• In English & French
Subscription: 3.830 EURO
One-time purchase: 55.920 EURO
Installment fee: 1.520 EURO

19. Scope
• Authoritative source on all countries (incl territories and federal
states)
• 800 international organizations (incl addresses)
• 6000 of the most important people in today’s worlds
Int‘l Law | Int’l Year Book and
Statemen’s Who’s Who
Features & benefits
• Thoroughly revised annually
• Including detailed statistics
from World Bank
• Chronology of upcoming
events, e.g. elections
Subscription: 590 EURO

20. Scope
• Comprehensive resource of 64,000 intergovernmental (IGOs) and
international nongovernmental organizations (INGOs) worldwide
• Published in cooperation with Union of International Associations
(UIA)
Int‘l Law | Yearbook of
International Organizations
Features & benefits
• Including history, structure, key
officers, statistics etc
• Online updates every 6-8 weeks
• Export into excel
• Flexible search and display options
Subscription: 2.200 EURO

21. Scope
• Updated summaries of 300 WTO/GATT panel
• Nine comprehensive indexes (e.g. key words, country, subject,
panelist, member etc)
• Easy citation list to track adoption status of reports
Int‘l Law | Handbook of WTO/
GATT Dispute Settlement
Features & benefits
• Essential for law practitioners
Subscription: 720 EURO
One-time purchase: 3.520 EURO
Installment fee: 400 EURO

22. Scope
• Systematic examination of all international maritime
boundaries worldwide
• Published with the American Society of International Law
Int‘l Law | International
Maritime Boundaries Online
Features & benefits
• Includes text of every modern
boundary agreement plus maps,
analyses etc
• Updated following significant
changes to ever-changing
maritime boundaries
Subscription: 500 EURO
One-time purchase: 2.430 EURO

23. Scope
• These Commentaries are based almost entirely on the formal and informal
documentation of the Third United Nations Conference on the Law of the
Sea (UNCLOS III, 1973-1982)
• The scope and duration of the “Virginia Commentary” project is without
precedent as an academic undertaking in the field of international law.
Int‘l Law |United Nations
Convention on the Law of the Sea
Online
Features & benefits
• Approx. 5000 pages
• Over 100 international law scholars or
Conference diplomats, reflecting a wide
diversity of views, contributed to
drafting or reviewing the
Commentaries.
One-time purchase: 2.100 EURO

24. European History & Culture

25. Scope
• Series of 26 primary source
collections, e.g. Soviet Cinema,
Mass Media, Jewish Theatre
• Insights into cultural and daily life
in imperial & Soviet Russia
Slavic Studies | Mass Culture
and Entertainment in Russia
Features & benefits
• Essential to slavists and
historians, but should be equally
appealing to political scientists,
art historians, and sociologists
• For purchase separately and as
entire series

26. Scope
• Book History Online (BHO) is the international bibliography in the field of
book and library history.
• Topics such as papermaking, bookbinding, book illustration, type design,
typefounding, bibliophily, book collecting, libraries and individuals
European History & Culture
Book History Online
Features & benefits
• Access to c. 80,000 records
• Spanning four decades of scholarly publications
• Entries ordered by subject, country or period
• Search by title, author, keyword, language and
more
• Personal tools include save searches, search
alerts, and exporting tools
• Updated quarterly
Subscription: 750 EURO
One-time purchase: 5.200 EURO
Installment fee: 280 EURO

27. Scope
• Collection of 10,000 German & Latin pamphlets
• “The most important body of sources for the study of the
Reformation in the German-speaking world” Thomas A. Brady Jr.,
University of California, Berkeley
European History & Culture
Sixteenth Century Pamphlets
Features & benefits
• Location of originals: August
Bibliothek Wolfenbüttel, Bayerische
Staatsbibl., Zentralbibl. Basel
• Updated annually, available as
subscription or as outright purchase
(with installment fee)
Subscription: 4.670 EURO
One-time purchase: 32.560 EURO
Installment fee: 1.430 EURO

28. European History & Culture
Sixteenth Century Pamphlets

29. Scope
• Includes Encyclopedia of Medieval Pilgrimage,
Encyclopaedia of Medieval Dress and Textiles of the British
Isles c.450-1450 and Encyclopaedia of the Medieval
Chronicle (2 vols.)
• Combining unique reference works
on multiple Medieval subjects,
such as travel, dress and history
European History & Culture
Brill’sMedievalReferenceLibrary
Subscription: 180 EURO
One-time purchase: 1.230 EURO

30. Language & Linguistics

31. Scope
• Covers 150 languages and language branches of Indo-
European
• Reference source for historical and general linguists
Lang. & Ling. | Indo-European
Etymolog. Dictionaries Online
Features & benefits
• Includes 12 dictionaries
• 20,000 entries
• Covers over 150 languages
• Also available in print
Subscription: 810 EURO
One-time purchase: 4.480 EURO
Installment fee: 320 EURO

32. Scope
• Offers a systematic and comprehensive treatment of all aspects of
the history and study of the Hebrew language
• The authoritative reference work for students and researchers in
the fields of Hebrew linguistics, general linguistics, Biblical studies,
Hebrew and Jewish literature, and related fields
Jewish Studies | Encyclopediaof
HebrewLanguage&Linguistics
Features & benefits
• Over 950 entries
• Various topics: texts, manuscripts,
inscriptions, reading traditions, major
grammatical features (phonology,
morphology, and syntax), lexicon, script
and paleography
Subscription: 325 EURO
One-time purchase: 1.560 EURO

33. Scope
• Comprehensively covers all aspects of Arabic languages & linguistics
• Interdisciplinary in scope & represents different schools and
approaches
• “Recommended without reservation to all academic libraries” –
H.G.A. Hughes, Reference Reviews 21/6 (2007)
Lang. & Ling. | Encyclopediaof
ArabicLanguage& Linguistics
Features & benefits
• Over 500 entries
• Full-text searchable
• Fully Unicode compliant
• New color maps and illustrations
Subscription: 500 EURO
One-time purchase: 1.890 EURO
Installment fee: 120 EURO

34. Scope
• Unique abstracting & indexing database covering all areas of
linguistics and all geographies
• Special attention to endangered languages
• Collaboration of 40 top scholars in the field
Lang. & Ling
Linguistic Bibliography Online
Features & benefits
• Indexes 2,800 journals
• 310,000 records
• 20,000 new records p.a.
• Titles are given in original
language (with English
translation where relevant)
Subscription: 2.280 EURO
One-time purchase: 14.590 EURO
Installment fee: 680 EURO

35. Middle East & Islamic Studies

36. Scope
• World’s standard reference work to Muslim society and Middle
East (2nd edition, 1955-2005, 10,000 entries)
• Published by Brill since 1st edition (1913-1938)
• 3rd edition started in 2007 (4 updates per year, richly illustrated)
• Comparing the 3 editions allows research on reception of Islam
Middle East & Islamic Studies
Encyclopaedia of Islam 2nd
Features & benefits
• License gives access to 2nd edition
(EI2) & 3rd edition
• French edition of EI2 (incl English
version) can be licensed separately
• 1st edition can be licensed
separately
One-time purchase: 17.090 EURO

37. Scope includes 3 resources: Encyclopaedia of the Qur’an, Early
Western Korans Online, The Qur’an Concordance
• An Encyclopaedic dictionary of qur’anic terms, concepts,
personalities, place names, cultural history and exegesis
• The first comprehensive reference work on the Qur’an to appear
in a Western Language
Middle East & Islamic Studies
Qur’anicStudiesOnline
Features & benefits
• Extensive indices: proper names,
Arabic words and phrases, citations
• Includes essays on important subjects
as well as 60 early printed Qu’rans in
facsimile (1537-1840s)
Subscription: 580 EURO
One-time purchase: 3.990 EURO
Installment fee: 370 EURO

38. Scope
• World’s standard abstracting & indexing database
• Covers 3,000 periodicals in European languages on Islam and the
Muslim world
• Produced by team at SOAS in London
Middle East & Islamic Studies
Index Islamicus Online
Features & benefits
• 435,000 records from journals,
conference proceedings,
monographs
• Almost a century of scholarly
research on Islam
• Updated quarterly
Subscription: 4.370 EURO
One-time purchase: 25.470 EURO
Installment fee: 1.520 EURO

39. Scope
• Interdisciplinary, trans-historical and global project embracing
women and Islamic cultures
• Aims to cover every topic for which there is significant research
• Reflects the very latest research on gender studies and the Islamic
world
Middle East & Islamic Studies
Enc.of Women& IslamicCultures
Features & benefits
• Almost 400 thematic, regional
or disciplinary entires
• Updates twice a year
• The only reference work of its
kind
Subscription: 520 EURO
One-time purchase: 3.450 EURO
Installment fee: 280 EURO

40. Scope
• A general online history of relations between the faiths
• Recorded encounters in Syriac, Arabic, Greek, Latin
• Introductory essays on the treatment of Christians in the Qur’an,
biographies of the Prophet, Muslims in canon law and more
Bibl. & Rel. Studies
Christian-Muslim Relations
Features & benefits
• Covers the period 600-1500
• Cross-searchable database
• Main body of more than 200
detailed entries
Subscription: 260 EURO
One-time purchase: 1.620 EURO

41. Scope
• Consists of both original volumes Geschichte der arabischen
Litteratur by Carl Brockelmann (1868-1956), as well as 3
supplement volumes
• Offers bio-bibliographic information about works written in Arabic
and their authors
Middle East & Islamic Studies
Brockelmann Online
Features & benefits
• Full text searchable
• Browse option by volume, chapter,
paragraph
• Fully Unicode compliant
• Ability to cross-search multiple
titles on Brill Online platform
Subscription: 310 EURO
One-time purchase: 1.800 EURO

42. Scope
• A projected 16-volume publication
• Consists of an abridged & edited translation of the Persian Dā’irat al-
Ma’ārif-i Buzurg-i Islāmī, one of the most comprehensive sources on
Islam and the Muslim world
• Offers the opportunity to appreciate the various dimensions of Shi’i
Islam
Middle East & Islamic Studies
Encyclopaedia Islamica Online
Features & benefits
• Yearly updates
• Complementary to other
encyclopedias
• Open URL
• Expected to be completed in 2023
Subscription: 350 EURO
One-time purchase: 2.600 EURO
Installment fee: 540 EURO

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