Koninklijke Brill NV

Regulatory Filings • Jul 31, 2007

PRESS RELEASE

BRILL ANNOUNCES THE LAUNCH OF THE BRILL JOURNAL ARCHIVE ONLINE

July 31, 2007. Koninklijke Brill NV announces that the content of virtually all of its older journal backfiles will become available online in early 2008. Brill currently publishes over 100 journals and subscribers already have access to journal articles published from 2000 onwards as part of their subscription.

The Brill Journal Archive Online will give access to over 50,000 articles published before the year 2000. Some of the journals started publication over a hundred years ago.

Brill's 2008 journal subscription prices have been developed to allow institutional subscribers access to the archival content of journals they subscribe to, for as long as subscriptions are maintained. Libraries and consortia wishing to acquire the archives in perpetuity will be able to purchase either subject packages or the entire collection of available archives.

The launch of this archive coincides with Brill's 325th anniversary.

Access to the Brill journal archive will be of great benefit to the academic community, enabling scholars to search a far broader range of content and to explore historical perspectives on their area of study and research.

The Brill Journal Archive Online will be hosted by Ingenta.

About Brill

Founded in 1683 in Leiden, the Netherlands, Brill is a leading international academic publisher in the fields of Medieval and Modern History; Biblical and Religious Studies, Ancient Near East and Egypt; Middle East and Islamic Studies; Asian Studies (incl. Hotei imprint); Classical Studies; Social Sciences; Biology; Science (VSP imprint); Human Rights and Public International Law (Nijhoff imprint). With offices in Leiden and Boston, Brill today publishes more than 100 journals and around 600 new books and reference works each year. In addition, Brill is a major provider of primary source materials online and on microform for researchers in the humanities and social sciences through its imprint IDC Publishers. In principle all publications are available in print or microform, as well as in electronic form. Brill's customers are academic and research institutions, libraries, and scholars. Brill is a publicly traded company and listed on Euronext Amsterdam NV. www.brill.nl

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Herman A. Pabbruwe (Chief Executive) Tel. +31 71 535 3501 pabbruwe@brill.nl