Brill Partners with Peerwith for Author Services

Leiden (NL) / Boston (USA) / Singapore (SG) – 11 August 2016

International scholarly publisher Brill starts a partnership with Peerwith for Author Services.

Through Peerwith, Brill authors will be able to find the right expert in language editing, copy editing, visuals production and many other areas, to take their academic work to the next level. The customized Brill platform was launched last week: https://authorservices.brill.com/.

“We are proud to collaborate in the increasingly important area of Author Services with a publisher with such a history and reputation,” says Joris van Rossum, co-founder of Peerwith. “Our peer-to-peer model, as well as our flexible technology, allow Peerwith to integrate Author Services, customized to the needs of publishers, as well as workflow tools and institutes.”

“Peerwith is unique in that it allows authors to select and collaborate directly with trusted experts,” says Marti Huetink, Publishing Director at Brill. “These experts, knowledgeable about Brill standards, create the perfect bridge between authors and Brill publications. The partnership with Peerwith brings together our dedication to authors and our focus on high-quality scholarship.”

For more information about Peerwith, please contact Joris van Rossum at joris@peerwith.com.

For information about Brill’s partnership with Peerwith, please contact Marti Huetink at huetink@brill.com.

About Peerwith
Peerwith is a marketplace for Author Services, matching academics seeking support for their work with experts who can help out. Peerwith was founded by Joris van Rossum, PhD, and Ivo Verbeek, M.Sc. Both have extensive backgrounds in academic publishing, product development, and launching startups. More information: www.peerwith.com.

About Brill
Founded in 1683 in Leiden, the Netherlands, Brill is a leading international academic publisher in 20 main subject areas, including Middle East and Islamic Studies, Asian Studies, Classical Studies, History, Biblical and Religious Studies, Language & Linguistics, Biology, and International Law. With offices in Leiden and Boston and a representative office in Singapore, Brill today publishes 265 journals and around 1000 new books and reference works each year, available in both print and electronic form. Brill also markets a large number of primary source research collections and databases. The company’s key customers are academic and research institutions, libraries, and scholars. Brill is a publicly traded company and is listed on Euronext Amsterdam NV. For more information, visit www.brill.com.

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