Specialty Products
In these pages, you can find more information about the variety of products that are available from Brill, in print and online, such as:
Product Types
- Brill | Wageningen Academic Textbooks
- Major Reference Works
- Primary Source Collections
- Bibliographies
- Dictionaries
- Brill Scholarly Editions
- Chinese Reference Shelf
Reference Works
Brill publishes stand-alone reference works and world renowned series such as the Encyclopedia of Islam, Recueil de Cours / Collected Courses from the Hague Academy or Brill’s New Pauly.
These titles are also available in electronic format on our BrillOnline Reference Works platform. You can search for Brill's reference works through the Catalog Search (please note that this listing includes handbooks and sets as well as records classified as our "major" reference works):
Primary Source Collections
Many of Brill's primary source collections are unique, as they are often the only source of rare documents outside of the source library itself. In addition to offering primary source material as collections, we also offer groups of collections as series, including:
- Art Sales Catalogues Online
- Mass Culture and Entertainment in Russia
- Reformation Sources Online
- The Early Modern Pamphlets Online
- The North China Herald Online
The collections are normally available in either Microfiche or Microfilm format, or online on our BrillOnline Primary Sources platform.
- View all Primary Sources Microfiche/Microfilm
- View all Primary Sources Online
- BrillOnline Primary Sources Help
Finding Aids and EAD
The numerous monographs, periodicals, newspapers, archives, herbaria, manuscripts and photograph collections which have been captured mostly involve rare materials which are often difficult to access. In the current information society, reliable electronic descriptions of these products are indispensable. A large section of our catalogue consists of archival material. In order to provide access to these kinds of collections, finding aids are supplied according to the data structure provided by EAD (Encoded Archival Description).
For an overview of the available EAD finding aids, click here.
MARC21
An important service provided is MARC21 records, delivered free of charge to customers who purchase collections. Each title has been catalogued on core level, according to the Anglo-American Cataloguing Rules (AACR2) and the Library of Congress authority files for names and subjects. Newly published catalog records are also contributed to the RLG Union Catalog, which is the largest bibliographic database of the Research Libraries Group (RLG).
As titles are encoded according to the Machine Readable Catalog format, they can usually be loaded directly into most library OPACs. This ensures that academic staff, students and researchers can more easily identify and access individual documents contained within the primary source collections.
Source Libraries
Documents in our primary source collections are carefully selected with assistance from our academic advisory boards. Source libraries include The British Library, Bodleian Library, Cambridge University Library, BNF, Herzog August Bibliothek, Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale di Firenze, Russian State Historical Archive, New York Public Library, Société du Musée Historique de la Réformation, Human Rights Internet.
Bibliographies
Brill publishes high profile bibliographies such as the Linguistic Bibliography, Index Islamicus and ABIA, the Index of South and Southeast Asian Art and Archaeology.
- View all Brill's bibliographies
- Search the term "bibliography" in Brill's entire catalog
- BrillOnline Bibliographies Help
Many of these titles are also available in electronic format on our dedicated bibliographies platform, BrillOnline Bibliographies, the next generation online resource center for students, researchers and teachers in academia.
Dictionaries
Brill offers essential and easy-to-use dictionaries in both print and online editions. Highlights include all Indo-European Etymological Dictionaries and Franco Montanari's The Brill Dictionary of Ancient Greek Online. Our BrillOnline Dictionaries platform offers user-friendly search options, personal tools, and supplementary files such as abbreviation lists, bibliographies and transliterations.