Brill Academic Publishers (known as E. J. Brill, Koninklijke Brill, Brill ()) is a Dutch
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academic publisher founded in 1683 in
Leiden
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. With offices in
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Boston
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,
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and
Singapore
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, Brill today publishes 275 journals and around 1200 new books and reference works each year all of which are "subject to external, single or double-blind
peer review
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." In addition, Brill provides of primary source materials online and on
microform
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for researchers in the humanities and social sciences.
Areas of publication
Brill publishes in the following subject areas:
* Humanities:
:* African Studies
:* American Studies
:* Ancient Near East and Egypt Studies
:* Archaeology, Art & Architecture
:* Asian Studies (Hotei Publishing and Global Oriental imprints)
:* Classical Studies
:* Education
:* Jewish Studies
:* Literature and Cultural Studies (under the
Brill-Rodopi imprint)
:* Media Studies
:* Middle East and Islamic Studies
:* Philosophy
:* Religious Studies
:* Slavic and Eurasian Studies
* Law (under the
Brill-Nijhoff imprint):
:* Human Rights and Humanitarian Law
:* International Law
:* International Relations
* Sciences:
:* Biology
* Social Sciences
:* Anthropology
:* Cartography
:* History
:* Language and Linguistics
:* Political Science
:* Sociology
* Ecclesiology
:* Biblical Studies and Early Christianity
:*Theology and World Christianity
History
Luchtmans, 1683–1848
The roots of Brill go back to 17 May 1683, when the Leiden booksellers' guild registered Jordaan Luchtmans as a bookseller. 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
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, which was then a major center of study in these areas.
E. J. Brill, 1848–1896
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In 1848, the business passed from the Luchtmans family to former employee E. J. (Evert Jan) Brill. In order to cover the financial obligations that he inherited, E. J. Brill liquidated the entire Luchtmans book stock in a series of auctions that took place between 1848 and 1850. Brill continued to publish in the traditional core areas of the company, with occasional excursions into other fields. Thus, in 1882, the firm brought out a two-volume ' ("Handbook of Steam Engineering"). More programmatically, however, in 1855 ' ("The Lord's Prayer in Fourteen Languages") was meant to publicize Brill's ability to typeset non-Latin alphabets, including Hebrew, Aramaic, Samaritan, Sanskrit, Coptic, Syriac, and Arabic, among others.
Brill goes public, 1896–1945; World War II
In 1896, Brill became a public limited company, when E. J. Brill's successors, A. P. M. van Oordt and Frans de Stoppelaar, both businessmen with some academic background and interest, died. A series of directors followed, until Theunis Folkers took over the reins in 1934.
[van der Veen, 108.] At the time, the annual turnover was 132,000 guilders.
[van der Veen, 103 and 109.] His directorship marked a period of unprecedented growth in the history of the company, due to a large extent to Folkers' cooperation with the German occupying forces during
World War II
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. For the Germans, Brill printed foreign-language textbooks so that they could manage the territories they occupied, but also military manuals, such as "a manual which trained German officers to distinguish the insignias of the Russian army".
By 1943, the company's turnover had reached 579,000 guilders.
Brill's recent history, 1945–present
After the war, the Dutch
denazification committee determined the presence of "enemy money" in Brill's accounts. Folkers was arrested in September 1946, and deprived of the right to hold a managerial post. The company itself, however, escaped the aftermath of the war relatively unscathed; after some negotiation its fines were fixed at 57,000 guilders.
Brill's path in the post-war years was again marked by ups and downs, though the company remained faithful in its commitment to scholarly publishing. The late 1980s brought an acute crisis due to over-expansion, poor management, as well as general changes in the publishing industry. Thus, in 1988–91 under new management the company underwent a major restructuring, in the course of which it closed some of its foreign offices, including Cologne. Its London branch was already closed by then. Brill, moreover, sold its printing business, which amounted "to amputat
ngits own limb". This was considered painful, but necessary to save the company as a whole. No jobs were lost in the process. The reorganization saved the company, which has since expanded. As of 2008, Brill was publishing around 600 books and 100 journals each year, with a turnover of 26 million euros.
Martinus Nijhoff Publishers
Martinus Nijhoff Publishers was founded in 1853 by , grandfather of the Dutch poet
of the same name and a seller of rare books. In the 1970s and 80s it became well known as an independent
international law
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publisher. It was acquired by
Wolters Kluwer
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in the 1970s
and subsequently by Brill Publishers.
The name was changed to Brill–Nijhoff in 2013,
and it is now an imprint of Brill Publishers. Nijhoff's portfolio focuses on areas in
public international law
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,
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, on
humanitarian law
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and increasingly on
international relations
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. Its annual publication program consists of over 20
academic journal
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s, 20 annuals, and some 120 new book titles. Its back-list comprises over 2,000 titles.
Rodopi
Rodopi, founded in 1966 in
Amsterdam
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Netherlands
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, 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
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Business
Building a strong backlist has traditionally been considered the best method to produ ...
contains around 4000 titles.
On January 1, 2014, Rodopi was taken over by Brill.
Open access
Brill publishes several
open access journals and is one of thirteen publishers to participate in the
Knowledge Unlatched
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pilot, a global library consortium approach to funding
open access books.
In 2013, Brill created the IFLA/Brill Open Access Award for initiatives in the area of open access monograph publishing together with the
.
Brill is a member of the
Open Access Scholarly Publishers Association.
Brill Typeface
Brill has developed a commercial font, free for personal use, that supports most of the Latin, Greek and Cyrillic character ranges, including IPA and historical forms. It has better diacritic rendering than most pre-packaged computer fonts, though not complete IPA coverage.
Brill Typeface
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See also
* List of Brill academic journals
* Books in the Netherlands
* Encyclopaedia of Islam - reference work published by Brill
Notes
References
* The most up-to-date history of the company is Sytze van der Veen, ''Brill: 325 Years of Scholarly Publishing'' (Leiden: Brill, 2008),
* Verde, Tom
"Brill's Bridge to Arabic"
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Archived version
Further reading
* Ophuijsen, J.M. van. (1994). ''E. J. Brill, three centuries of scholarly publishing, since 1683.'' Leiden: Brill Publishers.
External links
*
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