Over three centuries of scholarly publishingbrill.com

User Guide
Tips for Effective Searching,Reading and Account Management
for Scholars and Librarians

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Table of Contents

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Brill.com Features
1 Searching
4 Creating an Account5 Account Features
8 The Webshop
10 Reading Online
11 Downloading Content
12 Brill MyBook
12 Publishing and Corporate
Information
14 Content on
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Access Management
15 Accessing Separate
Accounts
15 Account Details
16 Subscription and Products
17 Access Information
17 Account Reports

In 2017, Brill launched its new brill.com website, including new catalog,
web shop and e-content innovations. This guide will show scholars
and librarians how best to make use of all the features this platform
introduces. Searching the catalog, creating an account, purchasing
digital or print products, accessing e-content and more will be
explained to enable researchers to get the most out of brill.com.
For librarians the website’s access management system is an invaluable
tool to gain insight in their institution’s holdings and usage statistics.
This guide will help librarians get the most out of the reports generated
by brill.com.
Still have questions? Visit the FAQ pages on brill.com/faq. You can also
contact us at brillonline@brill.com with questions or feedback.

Contact
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Searching
Quick Search

From the brill.com homepage, start searching by clicking ‘Search’ or ‘Browse’:• Search: opens a pop-up search box• Browse: browse Brill’s entire catalog and filter the resultsappear underneaththe website’s menu

Advanced SearchThis button links to theadvanced search pageThe ‘Advanced Search’ options (brill.com/advancedsearch) offer ways to search more
specifically for:• Author or Editor• Full Tekst• DOI/ISBN• Journal Source• Publisher• TitleYou can also refine your search by:• Publication Type• DateWhen ready, either click theicon or the

button, to go to the Search Results.

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Click the drop-down menu to select the additional
search specifics listed above

Search Results
On the ‘Search Results’ page the number of results and the number of results pages are shown.

USER GUIDEAn example of a Search Results page

Options:
Remove search terms by clicking
Set the number of ‘Items per page’‘Sort by’ relevance, alphabetically, date, source or author
Download citation in several file formats (.ris; .bib; .enw)

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To view the product page of a book or journal, or to go directly to a chapter or article, click on oneof the search results.
N.B: The search terms are highlighted when found in the blurb texts of search results, as wellas on the product pages when clicking on books or articles.

Refining Search Results
On the left side of the ‘Search Results’ page, options can be found to refine your search results.

The numbers on the right side represent the amount of search results for each option• Books: Hardcover, Paperback, E-Book, Book Series or E-Book Collection• Journal: Single Journal or E-Journal Collection• Reference Work: Bibliography, Dictionary, Encyclopedia, Text Edition or Atlas• Primary Source Collection: Online Primary Source or Microfiche/film Primary Source

A selection of options to refine the result ofa search

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Like the Subjects, each Product Type has subsections as well. Press the + icon to expand the menu.

BRILL.COM• Search within results• Choose Search Level: all results, only full titles, or only separate chapters/articles• Product Type: book, journal, reference work, or primary source collection• Subject: choose from 24 of Brill’s subject areas and many more detailed subsections• Access: all results, only subscribed/purchased content or Open Access content• Publication Status: forthcoming, available, or out of stock/print titles• Publication Date
• Primary Language• Brill Imprint

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Search History
Even without an account, brill.com saves your most recent searches.

Your search history can be found at the top of the page

At the top right corner of any page on brill.com, click on ‘My Searches’. This displays a collectionof your most recent searches. Click on a search to go to those search results again.

BRILL.COMMy Searches saves your most recent search terms

To save a search, an account is needed (see the next chapter). On the ‘My Searches’ drop-downmenu click theicon after you log in to save your search for later.

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Creating an Account

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After finding the correct content in Search Results, you can purchase, access and/or downloadthat book, journal, chapter, article, etc. However, you need to create an Account to be able todo this.
N.B.: You will also need an individual account to be able to purchase a MyBook copy.
MyBook enables users to purchase a print-on-demand paperback copy of books of theirchoosing, provided they have access to the E-Book version via their institution.
Visit brill.com/mybook for more information.
From any page on brill.com, click on Create Account at the top right corner of the page. Or go to
the brill.com/signup page.

The top menu bar can be found on every brill.com page

Fill in all your information, pick a password, confirm you are not a robot and agree to our Terms
and Conditions (click the link to read them). Then click the
button.

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An example of a filled in form

You will receive an email. Click on the confirmation link to complete the registration.
After you create an account, logging in is possible from the top right of any brill.com page. Or go
to the brill.com/login page.

After logging in, click on ‘My Account’ at the top right of any brill.com page.

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USER GUIDEIn the My Account menu different tabs
can be found at the top of the pageThe ‘My Account’ tabs are:• Most Recent: Your most recent searches• My Content: Purchased E-Content• My Searches: Saved searches• My Alerts: Email alerts for new content• My Annotations: Saved annotations• My Account: Your account details, where you can change your password• My Orders: Your web shop orders• Tokens: Enter access tokens provided by Brill. Includes a list of used token• My Data: EU GDPR Information

Most Recent
Here you can find your most recent saved searches. As this is the first tab to display on youraccount, this is meant to get a quick access to your saved research. It displays the search terms
and the date when it was saved.

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Did you forget what you were working on?
You can find your most searches here

Check a saved item and click the buttons to either
edit the search (by adding personal comments).

delete the saveworks as well) or

My Content

As mentioned above, this lists the E-Book and Journal content you’ve purchased.

My Searches

A complete list of your saved searches. This tab has the same features as the ‘Most Recent’ tab.
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My Alerts

You have the ability to sign up for a variety of email alerts that notify you of new journal issues oradvance articles, new citations, new results to your saved searches and additional added content.
To sign up for an email alert, click on the appropriate ‘Get Alert’ button on a product’s page.

USER GUIDEFor example, the ‘Get eTOC Alerts’ and ‘Get Ahead of Print Alerts’ buttons can be found to
the right on the journal page. Here you can enable or disable your alert for this journal

On the ‘My Alerts’ tab you can find an overview of all the alerts you have turned on. Click the
button to visit the product’s page, or click the

My Annotations

button to delete an alert.

When reading a journal article of book chapter you can include your own comments by selecting
a piece of text and clicking the
button.

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Adding comments to content is easy!

On the ‘My Annotations’ tab you can find an overview of all your saved annotations, including:• Chunk Title: The title of the article/chapter• Document URI: The URI of the article or chapter’s page
• Quote Text: The selected text to which you have added your comments• Annotation: Your comment’s text
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Click thebutton to visit the content page, thebutton to edit your comments, theto download the content’s citation or click the
button to delete an annotation.

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Your account details are listed, and can be edited, here. This is also the tab where you can change
your password:

Make sure not to share your personal
details with anyone

My OrdersAn overview of the purchases you have made in the brill.com webshop.

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TokensBrill often shares special offers in their email newsletters or at academic conferences. On this tab
you can enter an token which provides access to specific content for a predetermined amount oftime. Simply enter the shared token and click the
button.
Please note that you have to be logged in to your account to be able to access the token’s content.

For an example of a token for free access to oneof our new journals, please visit brill.com/free4u

My Data
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Brill takes your privacy seriously and will only use your information to provide you with services
you request. Brill.com is compliant to the EU’s GDPR rules. On this tab you can read more
information about GDPR, how you can remove your data from brill.com and how to download
your personal information and saved searches, annotations, etc.
Before requesting that your account is deleted, it is advised to download your data by clicking
thebutton.

USER GUIDEThe Webshop
Once you have found the content you need and have created an account, you are able to purchasedigital content or physical books and journals through our webshop.

Books

To purchase a book, search for the title and go to the product page. On the page, click on ‘Please choose
a format’ to select the format (E-Book, Hardback or Paperback) you want to buy.

Note that certain formats are only
available for specific books, i.e. not every
book is available in paperback

To purchase the book, click the

button.

The ‘My Cart’ button at the top right of the screen lists the amount of products that have been
added. Click the button to start the checkout process.

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In your cart, you can:• ‘Update’ the number of copies in the order• ‘Apply Discount’ by entering a code that has been provided by Brill• When you are ready to order, click the
buttonNote that the discount percentage will
be displayed, but the discount will only
be applied to your order total at thepayment stage

button.

Payment is arranged through a third-party service andtakes you out of the brill.com site

Finally, select a payment option. You will receive an email with an order confirmation and yourorder will be displayed on the ‘My Orders’ tab under the ‘My Account’ options.

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USER GUIDEThe next page gives a summary of your order. Agree to the Terms and Conditions and click the
button.

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Digital content will be made available through your account immediately. Print orders will besent to our distributor and will be shipped to the provided shipping address. Please take into
account between 5 to 10 workdays before shipments are sent.
N.B.: Unfortunately, at this point it is not possible to purchase a Journal Subscription on
brill.com. Please contact our Sales department at sales@brill.com for more information.

Chapters / Articles

To purchase an individual book chapter or journal article, go to the chapter/article’s page andclick on the
button.
Additionally, you can either login for institutional access, rent the article on DeepDyve, or redeem
an access token if one is provided by Brill.
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to your personal account to make use ofsome of these features

Once an article or chapter is added to your cart, the checkout process is the same as with any
book purchase (see p. xx).

Reading Online
Once access is available therestricted access icon will be replaced with the full access icon.
To access a purchased book chapter or journal article, go to the table of contents and click on thechapter/article.

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Where XML is available, access thearticle directly by clicking on the
Full Text tab

Downloading Content
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To download a book chapter or journal article, click on thefrom the chapter/article’s page.

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USER GUIDEA dialog box will open where the file can either be opened or saved.
Besides individual chapters, complete books can also be downloaded directly from the title’s
product page, when complete access is available.

N.B.: A PDF reader such as ‘Adobe Acrobat Reader’ is needed to access Brill’s PDF files.

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Brill MyBook
If your institution already has access to an E-Book, Brill’s MyBook program
enables you to purchase a print-on-demand paperback copy of a book.
Libraries that purchase any Brill E-Book Collection automatically make this option available
to students and scholars affiliated with that institution. The program is part of Brill’s broader
initiative to make its publications more accessible to the scholarly community.
To purchase a copy, click on the MyBook button to add it to your cart.
MyBook has a fixed price of €25 / $25 per copy, and is printed in black and white. Brill will ship
your copy free of charge, though VAT will be added where applicable.
Interested? For more information please go to brill.com/mybook.

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Publishing and Corporate Information
Besides the Brill catalog, webshop and digital content, the website also hosts a number of pages
with information about the Brill company, as well as information for authors about the publishingprocess, Open Access publishing and more.

USER GUIDEThe menu at the top of the screen contains information divided in separate sections for specificvisitors to the website:• Subjects: Interested in news and information related to a specific subject area? For each subject
in which Brill publishes content the website hosts a separate subject page.

• Authors: Here, aspiring and existing authors and editors can find out how the publishing process
works at Brill and download helpful resources. Scholars can find information about services suchas the MyBook program.

Brill.com User Guide• Trade: Information about the ordering process, sales contacts and product types for book sellers
and Brill’s trade partners.

• FAQ: For additional help with brill.com, visit the FAQ pages on brill.com/faq.
Librarians: Information about online holdings, discovery resources, the ordering process, sales
contacts and product types for library administrators and Brill’s other institutional customers.
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13• About: Brill’s corporate information, mission statement, and pages for investors.

USER GUIDE• Open Access: Everything you need to know to publish with Brill in Open Access, frominstitutional agreements and author publication charges to research funding assistance.

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Content on BrillOnline.com
Besides book and journal content, the brill.com catalog contains all of Brill’s larger databases suchas online encyclopedias, bibliographies and primary source collections. Information about theseproducts can be found on their respective pages.

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Brill publishes many online databases

However, the actual contents of these databases is still hosted on our BrillOnline.com platforms.
Clicking the
button takes you away from the brill.com site and directly to that
product’s content page on BrillOnline.com.

USER GUIDEInterested in purchasing an online database foryour library? Press the contact sales button to
set up an institutional trial

For more information about BrillOnline.com, visit that platform’s help pages:• BrillOnline Reference Works: referenceworks.brillonline.com/pages/help/index• BrillOnline Bibliographies: bibliographies.brillonline.com/pages/help/index• BrillOnline Primary Sources: primarysources.brillonline.com/pages/help• BrillOnline Dictionaries: dictionaries.brillonline.com/pages/help

Access Management

For library administrators, it is essential that they have a user-friendly and easy to understandoverview of their online holdings, as well as a variety of user statistics to suit their needs. Becauseof this, Brill’s new website, brill.com, comes with a new, updated Access Management System (AMS).

To log in to your AMS accountgo to ams.brill.com and enter
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Accessing Separate Accounts
When logging in, the AMS will display your default account dashboard, with additional options
in separate tabs on the page. However, it might be the case that multiple individual administrator
accounts are linked to your organizational login. To switch accounts click on the ‘Account’ button
at the top left of the screen and click ‘My Accounts’.

In ‘My Accounts’ you can switch from your organizational account to any individual account byclicking on the name. This page also has the opportunity to filter the results, in case the amountof accounts listed is are too many to easily find what you need.

unique ID number

Note that the ‘Users’ and ‘Members’ tabs on the organizational account page also list theindividual accounts of account managers and organizational members. Add a new user byclicking the
button.

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Account Details
The details page lists the known information for your institution. Click theadd or change information. You can also add your institutional logo.

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Subscription and Products
Both the ‘Subscription’ and ‘Products’ page work in a similar way. They both list the digitalproducts to which your institution has access on brill.com, either through subscriptions or directpurchases.

The Subscriptions page lists the nameof the product, the start and end date of
the subscription and the grace period

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The Products page lists the name ofthe product, the product and COUNTER
type, the ISBNs, DOI and URL

Where they differ is in the type of filters you can apply to the lists of your holdings.

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Subscriptions filter options

Products filter options

You can change the number of records listed on a single page by clicking on the drop-down menu
at the top right corner of the list.

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Access Information
The ‘Access’ tab displays the information both Brill and your institution need to set up access,either via IP authentication, URL referrals, Athens Id or Shibboleth account. Click the
button to add or change access information.

Account Reports

It is possible to download COUNTER 4 (starting with 2018 statistics) and COUNTER 5 (starting in2019) reports in a number of file formats: HTML, TSV and CSV. Click on the file format to download
the entire report for that year.

Each COUNTER version lists a number ofreport types, including a description of what
statistics are included in each report

In addition to the complete reports, it is also possible to click ‘Run Custom Report’ to customize thespecific statistics in which you are interested.

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The final tab, ‘Reports’, is most likely the one you will need the most often. From this page you areable to access and download a variety of user statistic reports. The tab lists the following sections:• COUNTER 4• COUNTER 5• NISO SUSHI Service Information• SUSHI Express Web Requester: Fill in the form to create SUSHI requests• Legacy Reports: This section contains ZIP files with older 2017 COUNTER information fromwhen Brill’s E-Book and E-Journal content was only available on BrillOnline.com.

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Brill offers publications in the following areas:

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