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Purchase full text E-Book Collections in the humanities, social sciences, international law, human rights & humanitarian law, and biology. Available by subject and copyright year. No DRM, outright purchases, unlimited site licences.
Agreement start date: 1 January 2022
Agreement end date: 31 December 2024
From 1 May 2020 different rates of VAT apply to some eresources:
This Agreement is of three years duration.
Institutions may purchase Brill E-Book Collections at any time during the Agreement period. They are then licensed for their chosen products in perpetuity.
Site licence.
For a 30 day free trial of this service please contact Chest Help with the following information:
Higher and Further Education and Research Councils in the United Kingdom, and to Universities and Colleges of Further Education in the Republic of Ireland.
Other organisations aligned with Jisc’s charitable objectives of supporting education, research bodies and the public sector may ask to participate in the Agreement. Chest will liaise with Brill about any such requests.
A popular Agreement which has been in place continuously since 2006.
Publisher: Koninklijke Brill N.V., a public company registered at the Kamer van Koophandel (Chamber of Commerce) in Leiden, The Netherlands, under number 28000012, and whose Head Office is Plantijnstraat 2, 2321 JC Leiden, The Netherlands.
Sites may purchase collections by subject, and by year of publication.
Title lists: visit E-Books Title lists and MARC records (Brill.com) to view titles and MARC records for each subject and year for collections.
E-Books Collections for copyright year 2024 will be added to the Agreement when pricing becomes available. 2023 is now available.
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OpenAthens (SAML) |
Yes |
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Shibboleth (SAML) |
Yes |
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| IP address range |
Yes |
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| Username / Password |
No |
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| EZProxy |
Yes |
BrillOnline - OCLC Support |
| Referring url |
No |
The supplier confirms that throughout the term of the agreement the products will comply with the standards indicated.
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Full text linking |
Yes |
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Federated searching |
No |
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Harvesting |
SRW/SRU |
No |
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| OAI-PMH |
No |
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| RSS or Atom |
No |
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Metadata standards |
Dublin Core |
No |
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Yes |
From Brill Online Marc Records | ||
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No |
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Months embargo period |
N/A |
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Digital preservation |
Lockss |
No |
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| Clockss |
No |
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| Portico |
Yes |
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Usage statistics |
Yes |
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Yes |
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Accessibility |
Yes |
Accessibility | |
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Personalisation features |
Yes |
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Service levels |
The content is static for each collection and collection year – new content will be available during the agreement but will have to be purchased separately.
All new platform functionality will be incorporated at no additional charge.
For a 30 day free trial of this service please contact Chest Help with the following information:
Support will be provided by Brill in the Netherlands during their normal working hours via a single contact or his/her deputy at each Institution. Brill support can be contacted at:
Brill User Guide may be freely copied by any Licensed Institution.
A user may:
Search, view, retrieve and display the Licensed Materials.
Print a copy or download and save Documents for personal use.
Use Documents within Learning Objects for the Licensee’s teaching, learning or training purposes
Use Text and Data Mining technologies to derive information from the Licensed Materials. Authorized Users may use the results of any Text Mining activity for their research, including without limitation the creation of an index, abstract, or description of Licensed Materials, whether in the form of a direct extraction or a representation in any form which is based on subscribed Content. If published, the research must be original and must not amount to a derivative work.
Distribute a copy of Documents in print or electronic form to other Authorized Users or to other individual scholars collaborating with Authorized Users but only for the purposes of research and private study; for the avoidance of doubt, this sub-clause shall include the distribution of a copy for teaching purposes to each individual student Authorized User in a class at the Licensee's institution.
Download a copy of Documents and share the same with Authorized Users or other individual scholars collaborating in a specific research project with such Authorized Users provided that it is held and accessed within a closed network that is not accessible to any person not directly involved in such collaboration and provided that it is deleted from such network immediately upon completion of the collaboration.
Staff of the Licensee who publish with the Publisher have self-archiving rights with regard to their work as set out on the website www.brill.com.
Licensor: Koninklijke Brill N.V., a public company registered at the Kamer van Koophandel (Chamber of Commerce) in Leiden, The Netherlands, under number 28000012, and whose Head Office is Plantijnstraat 2, 2321 JC Leiden, The Netherlands.
The Chest Order, together with the Licence Terms and Conditions, and any exceptions listed below, create a legally binding contract between your institution, organisation or company and the Licensor. Therefore please read the terms and conditions carefully and only submit a Chest Order if its terms and conditions are acceptable to your institution, organisation or company and you have the authority to make the financial commitment shown.
This Site licence is subject to the terms and conditions for the Standard Chest Licence for Online Resources with the exceptions listed below.
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Keep a local cached copy for Educational Purposes |
Yes |
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Incorporation of parts of the Licensed Material |
Yes |
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Deposit learning and teaching objects in repositories |
Yes |
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Interlibrary loan (restricted to UK and by post only) |
Yes |
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User |
On site |
Remote access |
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Students |
Yes |
Yes |
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Staff |
Yes |
Yes |
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Walk-in users |
Yes |
No |
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Alumni members |
Yes |
No |
The resources can be used for Educational Purposes – defined as:
Exclusions:
One-Off Purchase:
On receipt of a completed Order, Institutions will be invoiced for the Agreement year in which the Licence is signed.
There is no monthly pro-rata charging for Institutions which become licensed partway through a licence year.
All Purchase orders must be made out to JISC, 4 Portwall Lane, Bristol, BS1 6NB.
All terms contained in a PO are expressly rejected and do not form part of the Licence or vary the Licence terms in any way.
Please send purchase orders and any other files relating to your Chest order by email to help@chest.ac.uk.
Payments are due within thirty days of invoice date; recipients of late payments are entitled to interest in accordance with UK statutory provisions.
Material downloaded under the Agreement before its expiry may continue to be used under the same licence conditions as pertain while the Agreement exists. Once the Agreement has terminated then no further access to the service and to future publications will be possible unless the Agreement is renewed or extended. If the Agreement is renewed or extended then new conditions will apply. If the Agreement is not renewed then renewal is a matter between Institutions and Brill.
The Fee for early termination in accordance with clause 10.4 of the Terms and Conditions for the Standard Chest Licence for Online Resources is nil. Please note that this clause has been amended. The notice period under this agreement is ninety days, not sixty.
The Fee for retention rights upon termination in accordance with clause 10.5 of the Terms and Conditions for the Standard Chest Licence for Online Resources is nil.
Clause 2.2(m) of the Terms and Conditions for the Standard Chest Licence for Online Resources is amended to restrict Interlibrary loan to the UK and by post only, by the insertion of the words “in the UK” between the phrases “another library” and “by post”.
One-Off Purchase:
On receipt of a completed Order, Institutions will be invoiced for the Agreement year in which the Licence is signed.
There is no monthly pro-rata charging for Institutions which become licensed partway through a licence year.
End of UK budget year offer
30% off any eBook collections for orders placed with Chest by 31 July 2024; no minimum order required.
Currency: All prices are in Euros.
VAT: Zero rate VAT applies to Brill eBooks.
Please place your order online and Chest Help will apply any discount that applies and let you know the final cost.
Payment terms are shown on the Terms and Conditions tab.
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