Brill’s Managing Director, Herman Pabbruwe, and Wim van Drimmelen, Director General of the Koninklijke Bibliotheek, the National Library of the Netherlands, have signed an agreement about the long term preservation of all electronic publications of Brill Academic Publishers.
On the basis of this collaboration The Koninklijke Bibliotheek (KB) will receive digital copies of all of Brill’s E-journals, E-books and reference works to store these in its e-Depot. The KB commits itself to ongoing investments and research into long term preservation and access to the publications in the e-Depot, including all related bibliographic data and technical specifications.
It is expected that Brill will ship approx. 5,000 articles from its 120 journals and about 400 monographs and reference works on an annual basis. On top of that the entire back files of all journals will be added, amounting to an estimated 100,000 articles. Also some 2,000 books which were previously published in print, will be made available in digital form and will become part of the e-Depot.
The KB will secure on-going access to all stored publications to its on-site patrons and users. The KB is a long established and highly regarded institution of great quality and reliability and an international authority in the area of digital repositories. The KB will serve as a guarantee and last resort to all subscribers to Brill’s databases regardless future changes in rendition technology on a world-wide basis.
Brill Academic Publisherslisted on Euronext Amsterdam NV is a publishing house with a strong international focus and founded in 1683. The company focuses on the fields of Ancient Near East and Egypt; Middle East, Asian and Islamic Studies; Medieval and Early Modern Studies; Biblical and Religious Studies; Classical Studies; Social Sciences; Science and Biology; Human Rights and Public International Law.
The predominantly English-language publications consist primarily of (book)series, encyclopaedias and journals. In principle these publications will be available in print and electronic form. Brill’s principal markets are Europe, the United States and Japan. The majority of the customers are academic institutions and libraries.
The Koninklijke Bibliotheek (KB) is the National Library of the Netherlands and is an autonomous administrative body financed by the Dutch Ministry of Education, Culture and Science. The KB's mission statement is to provide universal access to the knowledge and culture of the past and present by providing high-quality services for research, study and cultural enrichment.
Major tasks are preservation, management, documentation and accessibility of the national cultural heritage in written, printed and electronic form. As deposit library for Dutch publications the KB is responsible for the National Bibliography. As research library the KB aims at Dutch history, language and culture in a wide international context. In addition the KB also owns rare and special collections like medieval manuscripts and early printed books. The KB supports cooperation between libraries, musea and archives and furthermore participates as initiator or coordinator in national and international digitization and preservation activities.
For further information:
Koninklijke Brill NV
Herman Pabbruwe
Managing Director
Phone +31 (0)71 5353 500
www.brill.nl
Koninklijke Bibliotheek
Erik Oltmans
Head Acquisitions and Processing Division
Phone +31 (0)70 3140 243
www.kb.nl/e-depot
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| Herman Pabbruwe, Managing Director of Brill Academic Publishers (left) and Wim van Drimmelen, Director General of the Koninklijke Bibliotheek. |