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De Gruyter Brill is one of the world's leading publishers in the humanities and beyond. Headquartered in Berlin, Germany, with its second largest office in Leiden, the Netherlands, De Gruyter Brill publishes more than 3,500 books and 800 journals per year, with a strong focus on the humanities and social sciences, and a programme that extends to the fields of science, technology, engineering and mathematics. De Gruyter Brill was founded in 2024 as a result of the merger of the publishing houses De Gruyter and Brill, whose heritage dates back to 1683 and 1749 respectively. Since then, De Gruyter Brill has been committed to publishing excellent research as a trusted partner to scholars in all disciplines. For more information, please visit degruyterbrill.com.

Brill’s publications focus on the Humanities and Social Sciences, International Law and selected areas in the Sciences. Brill publications also include several major imprints with a distinguished history of publishing high quality and successful titles.

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Brill publishes more than 2,000 books and reference works per year in both print and electronic format. Titles are often collated in Brill's E-Book Collection. The E-Book collections are sold by copyright year. Brill publishes almost 600 journals titles – including 42 fully Open Access titles. Many of Brill’s journals are indexed by major abstracting & indexing services, such as Web of Science and Scopus. All back volumes are digitized and are included in the Brill Journal Archives Online. In addition to its journals and books publishing programs, Brill also offers reference works and primary source materials, including prestigious publications such as the Encyclopedia of Islam, Brill’s New Pauly and The Hague Academy Collected Courses. Primary sources usually refer to original material, which scholars study and interpret as a basis for their own academic works. Brill’s Primary Source Collections include scanned printed or handwritten texts, e.g. pre-modern archival documents, Oriental manuscripts, but also printed art sales catalogues and contemporary human rights reports.

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