Read & Publish Agreements Negotiated by CAUL

Founded in 1683, Brill is a leading international academic publisher with a rich history and a strong international focus. Brill publishes a wide range of high-quality and professionally relevant literature to academic and research institutions in the areas of the humanities, social sciences, international law and selected areas in the sciences. Brill is headquartered in Leiden, The Netherlands.

The Read & Publish agreement enables authors from participating institutions to publish accepted articles into any ejournals from the Brill Online Journal Collection that their institution subscribes to, without any article processing charges (APCs).

More information can be found on Brill's CAUL agreement page.

This page was last updated on 3 May 2023.

Authors who do not see their institution listed above should contact library staff to enquire further.

This agreement allows authors from participating institutions to publish open access in up to 345 titles with no transactional APCs. Included titles varies depending on an institution's subscribed collection. Authors should confirm available titles with their institutions.

Brill collections include:

• high impact titles such as Amphibia-Reptilia, Behaviour, and Multisensory Research.
• titles with high Australian and New Zealand authorship, such as The Australian Year Book of International Law, the Asia-Pacific Journal of Ocean Law and Policy, and Global Responsibility to Protect (GR2P).
• journals of Australian societies:
  • Emotions: History, Culture, Society – Society for the History of Emotions
  • The Video Journal of Education and Pedagogy – Association for Visual Pedagogies

View the full list of Brill’s titles. Includes annotations for excluded titles.

Open access publishing covered under this Read & Publish agreement includes the following article types:

• Research articles
• Review articles
• Brief communications
• Corrections
• Additions

Authors may publish excluded article types as “closed access” or pay an article processing charge (if applicable) to make the article open access.

Eligible articles that have an acceptance date during the term of this agreement are eligible to be published open access under the terms of the agreement.

There is no limit on the number of articles by participating institutions allowed to be published as part of this agreement.

There are no other transactional charges for authors.

Corresponding authors from institutions listed under 'Participating institutions' may publish immediately to open access on the publisher's platform once the article has been accepted, with no transactional APCs.

Articles from authors at participating institutions may be published under the authors' choice of either

• CC-BY
• CC-BY-NC
• CC-BY-NC-ND.

The Creative Commons licenses allow reuse (some with conditions) while protecting the authors' rights of acknowledgment as authors. Authors retain copyright.

1. Follow the publisher's usual article submission process via the journal home page on brill.com, in which articles are submitted via Editorial Manager. The author should opt for open access and indicate that they are affiliated with a participating institution.
2. On acceptance of the article, the publisher will ask the corresponding author to complete a form (publishing agreement).
3. The corresponding author selects open access and confirms the licence type (e.g. CC-BY).
4. The APC is automatically waived for authors who have indicated they are affiliated with a participating institution.

View the publisher’s step-by-step guide for authors.

Authors will be identified as eligible for open access publishing by their institutional affiliation.

Authors must use their institutional email address when submitting an article for publication in order for the publication to be approved to be published open access with no transactional APCs.

The license is available for download from ConsortiaManager. Library staff should contact the designated Content Coordinator at their institution regarding any license enquiries.

Under the agreement, participating institutions will receive:

• perpetual access to all 2023 volumes of the ejournals in their subscribed collection
• temporary access to all backvolumes from 2000 to 2022 of the ejournals in their subscribed collection during the 2023 calendar year.

Authors may deposit articles in institutional repositories:

• Preprints, such as drafts at pre-peer review stage, may be deposited in institutional repositories at any point during the publication process.
• Author accepted manuscripts, at post-peer review stage, may be made available via institutional repositories immediately after publication with no embargo period.

View the publisher’s self-archiving rights policy for further information.

The publisher will supply CAUL and participating institutions with reports on publishing output with article-level information twice per year.