Thank you, Andrew.  

On 9 July 2017 at 20:09, Andrew Ollett <andrew.ollett@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.  

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.

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

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