Brill, one of the largest Open Access publishers in the Social Sciences and Humanities, has renewed and expanded its Transformative Agreement with the University of Vienna. The agreement gives reading and publishing rights to Brill’s full journal collection, including all titles published under the German imprints Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Böhlau, and unipress.
Researchers affiliated with the University of Vienna now have the opportunity to publish an unlimited number of articles in any of Brill’s journals in Open Access by default, including all full Open Access titles. Authors will retain copyright, and the Creative Commons Attribution license will be applied by default.
The Head of E-Resource Management at the University of Vienna/Vienna University Library, Wolfgang Mayer, commented that the transformative agreement embedded within the much more visible and highly efficient Brill environment is an important step to introduce and perpetuate Open Access in Theology, History, Jewish Studies, and other Social Sciences and Humanities.
Brill’s Chief Publishing Officer, Jasmin Lange, added that the long and rich tradition of Geisteswissenschaften is one of the defining features of Austrian and German academia. At the same time, research in these countries is opening up at an unprecedented speed and scale, and the agreement with the University of Vienna will extend Open Access to authors publishing in Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Böhlau, and unipress journals.
This partnership builds on the already established collaboration between Brill and the University of Vienna, and reflects both parties’ commitment to advancing Open Access publishing.
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