[INDOLOGY] New journal: "South Asian Intellectual History"

Sat Aug 26 01:17:08 UTC 2017

I should stop whining about freedom and integrity, and just buy shares in
Brill!

--
Professor Dominik Wujastyk <http://ualberta.academia.edu/DominikWujastyk>
,

Singhmar Chair in Classical Indian Society and Polity
,

Department of History and Classics <http://historyandclassics.ualberta.ca/>
,
University of Alberta, Canada
.

South Asia at the U of A:

sas.ualberta.ca

On 25 August 2017 at 09:59, Audrey Truschke via INDOLOGY <
indology at list.indology.info> wrote:

> Dear Colleagues,
>
> I know it's been a while for this discussion, but I did some digging this
> morning and thought that others might be interested in Brill's profit
> margins and how they brag about increased revenue from academic journals in
> recent years. A few highlights:
>
> Brill had a "sharp increase of profit" from 2015 to 2016 (here
> <http://www.brill.com/sites/default/files/brill_press_release_egm.pdf>),
> followed by another increase in 2017 (here
> <http://www.brill.com/sites/default/files/press_release_brill_hyresults_2017.pdf>
> )
>
>
> From 2015 to 2016, Brill acquired more journals, and "journal revenue grew
> by 5%" (here
> <http://www.brill.com/sites/default/files/brill_key-figures_2016_eng.pdf>
> ).
>
> In their 2017 Half Year Report, Brill named two specific journals among
> their acquisitions, saying "It is expected that the [two] journals will
> contribute to the revenue and profit in 2017" (here
> <http://www.brill.com/sites/default/files/brill_hy_report_2017.pdf>).
> Perhaps SAIH will merit a mention in the end of year report?
>
>
> For more about investor relations and the financial health of Brill, see
> here <http://www.brill.com/resources/corporate/investor-relations>.
>
> Audrey
>
> Audrey Truschke
> Assistant Professor
> Department of History
> Rutgers University-Newark
>
> On Wed, Jul 19, 2017 at 2:43 PM, Dominik Wujastyk via INDOLOGY <
> indology at list.indology.info> wrote:
>
>> Thank you, Andrew.
>>
>> On 9 July 2017 at 20:09, Andrew Ollett <andrew.ollett at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Gladly:
>>>
>>> 2.  http://www.brill.com/brill-open-0.  Brill also allows for proofs
>>> (not the final publication) to be uploaded on academia.edu.
>>> 3.  No processing fee.
>>>
>>
>> One would never expect to pay a processing fee except if the article is
>> being published OA.  And in that case, yes, Brill charges about €2000 per
>> article for CC-BY.  See the pricing charts here
>> <http://www.brill.com/about/open-access/brill-open-authors>.
>>
>> A related question is whether, having paid this fee, the author retains
>> copyright and issues the CC-BY license, or whether Brill takes the
>> copyright and the author's money, and they issue the CC-BY license.  The
>> latter is the case with this journal.
>>
>>
>>
>>> 4.  Yes, Brill owns the right, but permissions for reprint are rather
>>> easily granted:  http://www.brill.com/about/policies/rights-permissions
>>>
>>
>> I balk at asking permission to photocopy my own articles.  It's just not
>> right.  A more equitable situation is for the author to retain copyright
>> and issue to the publisher a license for them to do specifically what they
>> wish.  See some sample licenses and information here
>> <https://cikitsa.blogspot.co.at/2012/01/copyright-and-open-access.html>.
>>
>> In the past, I have written to Brill saying "no" they can't have my
>> copyright, but that I'm willing to issue them a license.  And to my
>> surprise, they said yes immediately, and sent me a ready-printed license
>> agreement.  The terms weren't great, but at least they knew what I was
>> talking about and were prepared to let me keep copyright of my own work.
>>
>>
>> Sadly, because of the above issues, I personally do not find this new
>> journal offers authors a modern, fair deal.  It's obviously an exciting and
>> intellectually valuable initiative.  But it is a great pity the founding
>> editors did not press Brill harder to offer authors a more liberal deal
>> that respected their rights.
>>
>> Best,
>>
>> Dominik
>>
>> --
>> | 
>> Professor Dominik Wujastyk
>>  |
>>  
>> Singhmar Chair in Classical Indian Society and Polit
>> y | 
>> Department of History and Classics
>> <http://historyandclassics.ualberta.ca/>, University of Alberta, Canada
>>  |
>> 
>> 
>> ualberta.Academia.edu/DominikWujastyk
>> 
>> | 
>>
>>
>> --
>> Professor Dominik Wujastyk*
>> <http://ualberta.Academia.edu/DominikWujastyk>
>> Singhmar Chair in Classical Indian Society and Polity
>> Department of History and Classics
>> <http://historyandclassics.ualberta.ca/>
>> University of Alberta, Canada
>>
>>
>>
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