Brill Publishers
Brill Academic Publishers, also known as E. J. Brill, Koninklijke Brill, Brill, is a Dutch international academic publisher of books and journals.
Parent company
De Gruyter Brill
1683
Jordaan Luchtmans
Turpin Distribution[1]
Global Oriental, Hotei Publishing, Brill Nijhoff, Brill Hes & De Graaf, Brill Rodopi, Brill Wageningen Academic
Brill was founded in 1683 in Leiden, Netherlands. With offices in Leiden, Boston, Paderborn and Singapore, Brill today publishes 600 journals and around 2000 new books[2] and reference works each year, "all Brill Open Access articles are subject to external, single or double-blind peer review."[3] In addition, Brill provides primary source materials online and on microform for researchers in the humanities and social sciences.[4]
History[edit]
Luchtmans, 1683–1848[edit]
The roots of Brill go back to 17 May 1683, when the Leiden booksellers' guild registered Jordaan Luchtmans as a bookseller.[5] As was customary at the time, Luchtmans combined his bookselling business with publishing, primarily in the fields of biblical studies, theology, Asian languages, and ethnography. Luchtmans established close ties with the University of Leiden, which was then a major center of study in these areas.
Imprints[edit]
Nijhoff[edit]
Martinus Nijhoff Publishers was founded in 1853 by Martinus Nijhoff, grandfather of the Dutch poet of the same name and a seller of rare books.[15] In the 1970s and 80s it became well known as an independent international law publisher. It was acquired by Wolters Kluwer in 1970[16][17] and subsequently by Brill Publishers in 2003.[18] The name was changed to Brill–Nijhoff in 2013,[18] and it is now an imprint of Brill Publishers. Nijhoff's portfolio focuses on areas in public international law, human rights, on humanitarian law and increasingly on international relations. Its annual publication program consists of over 20 academic journals, 20 annuals, and some 120 new book titles. Its back-list comprises over 2,000 titles.
Rodopi[edit]
Rodopi, founded in 1966 in Amsterdam, Netherlands, was an academic publishing company with offices in the Netherlands and the United States. It takes its name from a mountain range in Bulgaria which forms the border with northern Greece.
Rodopi publishes over 150 titles per year in around 70 peer-reviewed book series and journals. Rodopi publications are available in print and electronic formats. Although the main language of publication is English, the multilingual list includes German, French, and Spanish. The backlist contains around 4000 titles.
On 1 January 2014, Rodopi was taken over by Brill.[19]
Open access[edit]
Brill publishes several open access journals[21] and is one of thirteen publishers to participate in the Knowledge Unlatched pilot, a global library consortium approach to funding open access books.[22]
In 2013, Brill created the IFLA/Brill Open Access Award for initiatives in the area of open access monograph publishing together with the International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions.[23]
Brill is a member of the Open Access Scholarly Publishers Association.
