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The 2023 Read & Publish agreement enables authors from participating institutions to publish accepted articles into any ejournals from the Brill Online Journal Collection that their institution subscribes to, without any article processing charges (APCs).
This agreement allows authors from participating institutions to publish open access in 84 titles with no transactional APCs. Included titles varies depending on an institution's subscribed collection. Authors should confirm available titles with their institutions.
Brill collections include:
high impact Religion and Theology titles include: Biblical Interpretation, Journal of Ancient Near Eastern Religions, Religion and Theology, Journal of Empirical Theology, Church History and Religious Culture, International Journal of Public Theology
New Otago subscription to Polis: The Journal for Ancient Greek Political Thought
View the 2023 Otago titles list. Includes annotations for excluded titles.
Open access publishing covered under this Read & Publish agreement includes the following article types:
Authors may publish excluded article types as “closed access” or pay an article processing charge (if applicable) to make the article open access.
Eligible articles that have an acceptance date during the term of this agreement (2023) are eligible to be published open access under the terms of the agreement.
There is no limit on the number of articles by participating institutions allowed to be published as part of this agreement.
There are no other transactional charges for authors.
Corresponding authors from institutions listed under 'Participating institutions' may publish immediately to open access on the publisher's platform once the article has been accepted, with no transactional APCs.
Articles from authors at participating institutions may be published under the authors' choice of either
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Authors will be identified as eligible for open access publishing by their institutional affiliation.
Authors must use their institutional email address when submitting an article for publication in order for the publication to be approved to be published open access with no transactional APCs.
Authors may deposit articles in institutional repositories:
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Authors may deposit articles in institutional repositories:
View the publisher’s self-archiving rights policy for further information.