Brill Open Update Brill 20151
Brill Open: the program Gold Open Access on all levels: Article Issue / special issue Journal Chapter Book Book series Brill 20152
Licenses Attribution 4.0 * distribution, remix, tweaking, build upon, ALSO commercially Attribution- NonCommercial 4.0 * distribution, remix, tweak, build upon NON-commercially Attribution- NonCommercial- NoDerivs 4.0 * Download & Share * No further derivations NON-commercially Brill 20153
The face of Brill Open outside Brill 20154
Why does it matter: Trends Political agenda “free accessibility to publicly funded research” “commitment to transparency” “OA promotes the circulation of ideas and knowledge” “OA improves innovation” Brill 20155
Why does it matter: Trends Gold: Netherlands, UK, Austria Gold: Netherlands, UK, Austria Green: China, US, India Green: China, US, India Germany: pushes OA, but academic culture does not allow centralized enforcement of mandate Brill 20156
Why does it matter : Funding Institutional Seperate Open Access departments & Open Access budget National Open Access funding Especially: UK, Netherlands, Germany, Austria European European Research Council budgets & mandate Brill 20157
Why does it matter: Output 12-15% of all scholarly articles in OA Books publishers 750 titles publishers 2676 titles Source: Directory of Open Access Books Brill 20158
Why does it matter: Authors? Authors often not aware or interested in OA mandate & publication But when they HAVE to publish in OA and find out too late, they will go green instead of gold Brill 20159
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Strategic options Brill
Brill’s engagement Proactive approach authors & editors to create awareness early on in the publication process Brill
Win/win Top projects by leading scholars… …if they have to publish in OA… …Brill offers OA infrastructure at very competitive publication charges… …and a solid scholarly reputation Brill
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