[BOAI] Re: [LIS-E-RESOURCES] Brill introduces Journal Open Access Service: Brill Open

[Peter Suber]

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Brill introduces Journal Open Access Service: Brill Open

Leiden (NL) - 4 November 2009

Brill, a prominent scholarly publisher in the Humanities and International
Law, is pleased to announce the launch of Brill Open. This new author
service offers the option of making articles freely available upon
publication. Brill Open enables authors to comply with research funding
bodies and institutions which require open access.

The Brill Open option will be available for all 135 journals published under
the imprints Brill, Martinus Nijhoff and VSP. Articles will be put in online
open access in exchange for an article publishing fee to be arranged by the
author. Sam Bruinsma, Brill's Business Development Director, explains: 'We
are launching this new service in answer to a growing number of research
funding bodies and universities announcing their compliance with the open
access model. With Brill Open our journals are ready to meet the expected
increase in contributions under this model.'

In order to ensure that authors' funder requirements have no influence on
the editorial peer review and decision-making, Brill Open will be made
available to authors only upon acceptance of their paper for publication.
Those authors who do not wish to use this service will be under no pressure
to do so, and their accepted article will be published in the usual manner.

Brill's strategic intent is to adjust the future subscription price of a
journal to reflect an increase in Brill Open fees. Sam Bruinsma comments:
'Our view on open access developments is positive. We accept that over time
an increasing part of our revenues will come through this new model. This
will have an impact on the revenues from our library subscription service.
The combination of these two business models will continue to support a
healthy and sustainable journal program attractive to the best authors in
the field.'

For more details about Brill Open and Brill's open access policy, please go
to www.brill.nl/openaccess.


Sam Bruinsma
Director of Business Development & E-Publishing | BRILL

BRILL | P.O.Box 9000 | 2300 PA Leiden | The Netherlands
 T +31(0)71-53 53 517 | F +31(0)71-53 53 542 | C +31(0)65-02 54 555
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