December 13, 2018 – Getzville, NY (US) / Leiden (NL), Boston (US) – William S. Hein & Co, the world’s largest distributor of legal periodicals, and Brill, the international scholarly publisher, are announcing a major expansion of their longstanding partnership. Starting 2019 William S. Hein & Co., Inc. will provide access to the current content of all Brill | Nijhoff International Law periodicals on its award-winning platform, HeinOnline.
Starting in 2019, Hein will offer subscriptions to the Brill | Nijhoff Current Content Collections, which will provide access to the most recent three volumes of almost sixty periodicals. As before, Hein will continue to offer access to the Brill | Nijhoff archival content with a three-year moving wall. As a result, Hein is now able to offer its worldwide customer base the option to access the entire history of this highly prestigious list in International Law.
Kevin Marmion, CEO of William S. Hein & Co., Inc. remarks: “We are excited to add more of Brill’s fine content to our platform, and to provide the opportunity for our customers to access the most current content under our new agreement.”
Sam Bruinsma, SVP Business Development at Brill, comments: “For 15 years the back volumes of our law periodicals have been available on HeinOnline with an embargo. We are confident that Hein’s global customer base will greatly appreciate the opportunity to finally get access to the most recent editions of these periodicals on their platform as well.”
The Brill | Nijhoff Current Content Collections are expected to launch first quarter 2019. For more information on this media alert please contact Sam Bruinsma, SVP Business Development at Brill, at bruinsma@brill.com.
About Brill – Founded in 1683 in Leiden, the Netherlands, Brill is a leading international academic publisher in Middle East and Islamic Studies, Asian Studies, Classical Studies, History, Biblical and Religious Studies, Language & Linguistics, Literature & Cultural Studies, Philosophy, Biology, Education, Social Sciences and International Law. With offices in Leiden (NL), Boston (US), Paderborn (GER), Singapore (SG) and Beijing (CN), Brill today publishes 300+ journals and close to 1,400 new books and reference works each year, available in print and online. Brill also markets a large number of primary source research collections and databases. The company’s key customers are academic and research institutions, libraries, and scholars. Brill is a publicly traded company and is listed on Euronext Amsterdam NV. For further information, please visit www.brill.com.
About William S. Hein & Co., Inc. – William S. Hein & Co., Inc. has been serving the library community for more than 95 years as a legal publisher, periodical subscription agent, and the world’s largest distributor of legal periodicals. Hein’s research and reference tools for law, international relations, political science, and foreign affairs are among their most important contributions to the publishing world. HeinOnline is a premier online database containing more than 160 million pages and 200,000 titles of historical and government documents in a fully searchable, image-based format. HeinOnline bridges an important research gap by providing comprehensive coverage from inception of more than 2,600 law-related periodicals.
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