Brill Starts New Collaboration with Dutch Universities

The Hague / Leiden, 20 March 2017

Scholarly publisher Brill has reached an agreement with the VSNU - the Association of Universities in the Netherlands - with an emphasis on Open Access.

As part of the agreement, scholars and students of ten Dutch universities will be granted access to Brill's complete journal portfolio. The journal package includes over 240 titles in the Humanities, Law, Social Sciences, and Biology.

For part of the journal portfolio, Brill is moving towards Open Access: scholars affiliated to a Dutch institution are allowed to publish in Open Access in Brill's journals in the fields of International Law and International Relations, without any additional fees. The journal selection consists of 40 leading titles in these fields. Measured by the number of journal articles, approximately one-third of the journal articles of scholars working for Dutch universities will be published in Open Access with Brill. The agreement is valid for 2017 and 2018. As a result of this collaboration, Brill is the first Dutch publisher to make full Open Access available for all its Law journals for eligible authors.

Peter Coebergh, EVP Sales & Marketing at Brill, is delighted about the agreement: "Open Access is a key focal point for the VSNU and Brill is proud to be part of this new form of collaboration between universities and publishers."

For more information about the agreement visit www.brill.com/brillopen-vsnu or contact Hans van der Meij, Director of Academic Relations & Publishing Partnerships at Brill: meij@brill.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 (NL), Boston (US), Paderborn (GER) and Singapore (SG), Brill today publishes over 270 journals and close to 1,200 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 further information, please visit www.brill.com.

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