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Linda EmpringhamHead of Library and Consortia Sales

DEFF Online 2012

Presentation

• Update on new BRILL platforms and developments

• Overview of BRILL’s online resources in international law and human rights & humanitarian law

BrillOnline.comBrillOnline.comNew platforms

• Combined e-books and e-journals platform• Personal tools for saving, alerting, sharing, and exporting• Compliant with current industry standards

– OpenURL– Athens, Shibboleth– COUNTER, SUSHI– KBART compliant files– Social Sharing

• Automated permission service (CCC’s RightsLink) • Admin tools for library administrators

Coming soon: MyBook

• MyBook allows patrons of institutions which have purchased e-books to order a personal print copy of the book at a moderate price (€25)

• Ideal for classroom use of Brill books• Exact copy of the original in black-

white, with generic cover• booksandjournals.brillonline.com

Brill and Discovery systems

• BRILL has agreements with the following:• Serials Solutions (Summon)• Ebsco (Ebsco Discovery Service)• Ex Libris (Primo)• World Cat • KBART compliant files available from BRILL

International Law and Human Rights

• Martinus Nijhoff Publishers imprint dates back to mid-19th Century– Public International Law, Comparative Law– Human Rights & Humanitarian Law

• Law publications have accounted for about 20% of all monograph publications from BRILL since 2006

• Publisher of the prestigious Hague Academy Collected Courses

• Online law programme growth in past year, through new resources and acquisitions

LawLawJournals

• 45 journals in 2013, from well-establsiehd titles such as European Jnl of Crime, Criminal Law and Criminal Justice to new titles such as Global Jnl of Comparative Law

• Brill Journal Archive Online Law Collection:

• Part 1: From volume 1 issue 1 to end of 1999

• Part 2: 2000 to end of 2009

LawLawE-Books

• Features & benefits• Integration into library catalogue through free

MARC21 records• Simultaneous publication of print and e-version• 30% savings on comparable print value• No overlap between collections

• Two collections• K

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  2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012  

International Law | Public International Law, Law of the Sea, International Trade Law, International Labour Law, Environmental Law, European Law, Islamic Law, International Relations, International Organizations, Terrorism, Legal History

47 39 41 41 44 46 55 313

Human Rights and Humanitarian Law | Human Rights, Refugee Law, Immigration Law, Health Law, Children’s Rights, Minority and Group Rights, Humanitarian Law, International Criminal Law

45 45 45 33 34 18 46 266

Scope• Hague Academy of International Law is a center for high-level education in

international law• HACCO includes courses given by leading specialists, including academics,

practitioners, diplomats (in English and French), in public and private international law

• Significantly reduced rates for print subscribers

Hague Academy Collected Courses Online

Features & benefits• Content goes back to 1923• Updated about 8 times a

year

Scope• Comprehensive resource of 64,000 intergovernmental (IGOs) and

international nongovernmental organizations (INGOs) worldwide• Published in cooperation with Union of International Associations

(UIA)

Yearbook of International Organizations Online

Features & benefits• Including history, structure, key

officers, statistics etc• Online updates every 6-8 weeks• Export into Excel• Flexible search and display options

Scope• Authoritative source on all countries (incl territories and federal

states)• 800 international organizations (incl addresses)• 6000 of the most important people in today’s worlds

International Year Book and Statemen’s Who’s Who

Features & benefits• Thoroughly revised annually• Including detailed statistics

from World Bank• Chronology of upcoming

events, e.g. elections

Scope• Updated summaries of 300 WTO/GATT panel• Nine comprehensive indexes (e.g. key words, country, subject,

panelist, member etc)• Easy citation list to track adoption status of reports

Handbook of WTO/ GATT Dispute Settlement NEW

Features & benefits• Essential for law practitioners• Quick and easy access the

complex WTO/GATT reports

Scope• Systematic examination of all international maritime

boundaries worldwide• Published with the American Society of International Law

International Maritime Boundaries Online NEW

Features & benefits• Includes text of every modern

boundary agreement plus maps, analyses etc

• Updated following significant changes to ever-changing maritime boundaries

Scope• Documentary collection of diverse treaty and non-treaty

instruments (by B. Weston and J. Carlson)• Covers history and current state of international law and

affairs

International Law & World Order NEW

Features & benefits• Updated continuously• Up-to-date information on

the legal status of these instruments

Scope• Comprehensive directory on sources of foreign law in over 170

countries• Snapshot of each country’s legal history, judicial and legislative

systems, proceeding to local sources of legal information, internet sources, and major publications

Foreign Law GuideRECENT ACQUISITION

Features & benefits• Number of countries

covered is expanded annually

• Coverage back to 1988

Scope• Unique primary source collection – ever growing since 1980• Documents collected by 355 NGOs• Edited by Human Rights Internet Ottawa

Human Rights Documents Online

Features & benefits• Largest collection of Human Rights

Documents• 40,000 documents from 483 organizations• Updated annually• Special rates for small institutions (fewer

than 3500 FTEs) and NGOs

For more information

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