1. Brill Open Update Brill 20151

2. Brill Open: the program Gold Open Access on all levels: Article Issue / special issue Journal Chapter Book Book series Brill 20152

3. 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

4. The face of Brill Open outside Brill 20154

5. 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

6. 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

7. 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

8. Why does it matter: Output 12-15% of all scholarly articles in OA Books 2012 21 publishers 750 titles 2015 100 publishers 2676 titles Source: Directory of Open Access Books Brill 20158

9. 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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11. Strategic options Brill 201511

12. Brill’s engagement Proactive approach authors & editors to create awareness early on in the publication process Brill 201512

13. 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 201513

14. Questions? Brill 201514