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The objective of this resource is to inform the UNSW community of changes to the Library Collection and open access publishing agreements in which the University participates.

Brill Selected Journals Open Access Publishing Agreement

Agreement duration: The UNSW agreement is from 1 January 2025 - 31 December 2025. A previous three-year agreement was also in place between 2022 - 2024.

Acceptance date: Eligible articles that have an acceptance date during the term of this agreement from 1 January 2025 - 31 December 2025 are eligible to be published open access.

Summary: Brill publishes journals, books and reference works within the humanities and social science disciplines. The agreement offers UNSW corresponding authors open access publishing in the journals UNSW has read access to in 2025 at no charge to the author. This is an uncapped publishing agreement.

Titles included: The 2025 journals included in the UNSW agreement are:

  • African and Asian Studies
  • Amphibia-Reptilia
  • Animal Biology
  • Behaviour
  • Comparative Sociology
  • Crustaceana
  • European Journal of Health Law
  • European Journal of Migration and Law
  • Global Governance
  • Global Responsibility to Protect
  • Historical Materialism
  • IAWA Journal
  • Insect Systematics & Evolution
  • International Community Law Review
  • International Criminal Law Review
  • International Human Rights Law Review
  • International Journal on Minority and Group Rights
  • International Negotiation
  • International Organizations Law Review
  • Israel Journal of Ecology and Evolution
  • Journal of Chinese Overseas
  • Journal of Cognition and Culture
  • Journal of International Humanitarian Legal Studies
  • Journal of International Peacekeeping
  • Journal of Moral Philosophy
  • Journal of the Economic and Social History of the Orient
  • Middle East Journal of Culture and Communication
  • Multisensory Research
  • NAN NÜ
  • Nordic Journal of International Law
  • Numen
  • Perspectives on Global Development and Technology
  • Research in Phenomenology
  • Society & Animals
  • The International Journal of Children's Rights
  • The International Journal of Marine and Coastal Law
  • The Journal of World Investment & Trade
  • The Law & Practice of International Courts and Tribunals
  • Worldviews: Global Religions, Culture, and Ecology (new to agreement in 2025)
  • Climate Law (new to agreement in 2025)
  • Polis: The Journal for Ancient Greek and Roman Political Thought (new to agreement in 2025)
  • The Australian Year Book of International Law Online (new to agreement in 2025)
  • The Soviet and Post-Soviet Review (new to agreement in 2025)
  • Asian Diasporic Visual Cultures and the Americas (new to agreement in 2025)
  • Journal of Phenomenological Psychology (new to agreement in 2025)
  • Max Planck Yearbook of United Nations Law Online (new to agreement in 2025)
  • Asiascape: Digital Asia (new to agreement in 2025)
  • International Journal of Procedural Law (new to agreement in 2025)
  • Journal of Persianate Studies (new to agreement in 2025)
  • Law & Geoeconomics (new to agreement in 2025)

NB: The following titles are no longer part of the agreement (from 1 January 2025): Horizons in Biblical Theology, Tijdschrift voor Entomologie, Yearbook of International Disaster Law Online.

Information for authors: See the How to Publish with Brill webpage. Brill presents authors with information about its OA programs here. UNSW corresponding authors must use their UNSW institutional email address (name@unsw.edu.au) to be eligible under this agreement. This agreement allows researchers to publish open access under a CC BY licence. For journal response times between submission and acceptance you should check the specific journal guidelines for accurate information.

Eligible article types: Original Paper, Review, Brief Communication, Correction, Additions.

Sharing via repositories: UNSW corresponding authors can comply with the Open Access policy by retaining the rights to the Author Accepted Manuscript and depositing a copy into UNSWorks (via ROS) using a CC BY licence.

How to submit your article for open access publishing:

  1. Follow Brill’s usual article submission process via the journal’s homepage.
  2. On acceptance of the article, the UNSW corresponding author completes a form (publishing agreement).
  3. To comply with the Open Access policy the UNSW corresponding author will need to retain the rights to either the Published Version of Record or Author Accepted Manuscript, and deposit into UNSWorks using a CC BY licence.
  4. The APC will then be waived for authors who 
    • used their UNSW institutional email address and
    • selected UNSW as their institutional affiliation.

Corresponding authors should not use personal email addresses (e.g. Hotmail, Gmail) or email addresses affiliated with other organisations, research centres or institutes. Otherwise they may be ineligible under the terms of this agreement.

For any queries about this open access publishing agreement please use this short form.

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