The Brill Journal Archive Online has been purchased by JISC Collections and is available free of charge to UK Higher and Further Education institutions and Research Councils.
Institutions now have free online access to over 50,000 articles from more than 80 journals covering subjects such as biology, human rights, international law and the social sciences. Titles include one of the world's oldest academic journals on Chinese studies, T'oung Pao.
An access fee may apply after 31/05/2013.
The Brill Journal Archive Online provides access to over 50,000 articles from more than 80 journals published by Brill before 2000.
Subject areas
Biology, humanities, human rights, international law, science, and the social sciences.
Academic level
This resource is relevant to graduates and postgraduates.
Date range
Journals published before 2000. Access to full text Brill journals published from 2000 onwards is available from Jisc Collections through the NESLi2 SMP initiative.
Updates
Content is not updated as this is a static collection.
Complementary resources
Users can combine the primary materials from the BAILII Open Law Project (for example historical judgements) with the secondary materials from the law journals in Brill Journal Archive Online and Oxford Journals Archive (the Law archive) for their legal research tasks.
You can subscribe to this content via the publisher's platform. Access to the content is free until 31 May 2013. An access fee may be required after this date.
Alternatively, institutions can host the content for a one-off payment of €199.
Full text linking
Search results link to an article abstract and the option to download a PDF of the article.
Search options
Users can browse content, and conduct quick and advanced searches using boolean operators. Quick searching is by title, article, and keyword. The advanced search allows author searches.
Post-search options
Users can download articles as PDFs.
Usage statistics
COUNTER compliant usage statistics are available free of charge.
Authentication
Authentication via the UK Access Management Federation will be available late 2009. Currently, authentication is via Athens and IP range.
Accessibility
This resources complies with level 1 of W3Cs web accessibility guidelines