Open Access Policy
Brill’s Policies on Open Access
In principle all Brill’s publications are protected by copyright. Under certain conditions Brill allows the posting of publications in online repositories and open archives (self-archiving). In addition, with Brill Open, authors are offered the option to make their publication publicly and freely online available against an article processing fee. Both options are explained below.
Under certain conditions Brill allows the posting of publications in online repositories and open archives (self-archiving). The following is allowed, always with proper acknowledgement to Brill and the original publication:
Permitted use of Articles from Journals, Multi-Authored Books and Encyclopedias
- A Brill author may post the post-print version of his or her own article that appeared in a journal or multi-authored book volume or encyclopedia on his or her own personal website or webpage free of charge. This means the article can be shown exactly as it appears in print. No permission is required.
- The institute employing the author may post the post-refereed, but pre-print version of that article free of charge on its website. The post-refereed, pre-print version means the version which contains all adaptations made after peer reviewing (upon acceptance). The publisher’s lay-out must not be used.
Permitted use of Monographs
- The institute employing the monograph author may post the post-refereed, but pre-print version of the book free of charge in a repository on its Intranet (closed repository). The post-refereed, pre-print version means the version which contains all adaptations made after peer reviewing (upon acceptance). However, the publisher’s lay-out must not be used.
- Without permission, the posting of (part of) books in any form in an open repository or otherwise on the Internet is not allowed. For permissions contact rights [at] brill [dot] nl
We trust that through this policy we allow maximum freedom of use of our publications without endangering their viability. For further information on permitted uses and permissions contact: rights [at] brill [dot] nl
With Brill Open, authors are offered the option to make their publication publicly online available in exchange for an Article Processing Fee. The Brill Open option enables authors to comply with specific Open Access requirements from their research funding body or their university or organization.
The Brill Open option is available for all journals published under the imprints Brill and Martinus Nijhoff. The Article Processing Fee is EURO 2,000 / USD 2,800 per article.
In addition the following three Brill journals will be full Open Access titles as of 2012:
- African Diaspora
- Fascism (New)
- The International Journal of the Platonic Tradition
Because of the generous support of the Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research NWO, for 2012 the Article Processing Fee for these journals is reduced to EUR 800 / USD 1120 per article.
Payment of the Article Processing Fee will make articles publicly accessible on Brill’s online content platform under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 Unported License. More information on the payment of the Article Processing Fee is available upon request rights [at] brill [dot] nl
The Brill Open option will be made available to authors only upon acceptance of their paper for publication. This is in order to prevent any potential conflict of interests, and to ensure that authors' funder requirements have no influence on the editorial peer review and decision-making.
Those authors who do not wish to use this service are under no pressure to do so, and their accepted article will be published in the usual manner (except for the full Open Access journals listed above). All existing policies on author posting of the final version will then apply (see under Self-Archiving above).
We accept that Open Access is a valid alternative for the subscription model. Therefore it is Brill’s intent to reflect a journal’s Open Access income in the development of the journal’s subscription price.
The special Brill Open Consent to Publish can be downloaded below:
