BRILL announces the launch of the BRILL journal archive online

["Els van Egmond" <Egmonde@brill.nl>]

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PRESS RELEASE

BRILL announces the launch of the BRILL journal archive online

July 31, 2007. Koninklijke Brill NV announces that the content of 
virtually all of its older journal backfiles will become 
available online in early 2008. Brill currently publishes over 
100 journals and subscribers already have access to journal 
articles published from 2000 onwards as part of their 
subscription.

The Brill Journal Archive Online will give access to over 50,000 
articles published before the year 2000. Some of the journals 
started publication over a hundred years ago.

Brill's 2008 journal subscription prices have been developed to 
allow institutional subscribers access to the archival content of 
journals they subscribe to, for as long as subscriptions are 
maintained. Libraries and consortia wishing to acquire the 
archives in perpetuity will be able to purchase either subject 
packages or the entire collection of available archives.

The launch of this archive coincides with Brill's 325th 
anniversary.

Access to the Brill journal archive will be of great benefit to 
the academic community, enabling scholars to search a far broader 
range of content and to explore historical perspectives on their 
area of study and research.

The Brill Journal Archive Online will be hosted by Ingenta.

About Brill

Founded in 1683 in Leiden, the Netherlands, Brill is a leading 
international academic publisher in the fields of Medieval and 
Modern History; Biblical and Religious Studies, Ancient Near East 
and Egypt; Middle East and Islamic Studies; Asian Studies (incl. 
Hotei imprint); Classical Studies; Social Sciences; Biology; 
Science (VSP imprint); Human Rights and Public International Law 
(Nijhoff imprint). With offices in Leiden and Boston, Brill today 
publishes more than 100 journals and around 600 new books and 
reference works each year. In addition, Brill is a major provider 
of primary source materials online and on microform for 
researchers in the humanities and social sciences through its 
imprint IDC Publishers. In principle all publications are 
available in print or microform, as well as in electronic form. 
Brill's customers are academic and research institutions, 
libraries, and scholars. Brill is a publicly traded company and 
listed on Euronext Amsterdam NV.

Brill Press Inquiries
Herman A. Pabbruwe (Chief Executive)
Tel. +31 71 535 3501
pabbruwe@brill.nl

Ms Els van Egmond
Manager Journal Marketing, BRILL
Tel direct: +31 71 535 3436
Fax: +71 535 3542
egmonde@brill.nl
www.brill.nl