Brill Online for Librarians
Brill Online Reference Works (https://referenceworks.brillonline.com) hosts all of Brill’s Online Reference Works. Brill’s Online Bibliographies can be found on https://bibliographies.brillonline.com.
All publications on the platforms can be searched individually and collectively. Searches can be done in subscribed content only, when preferred.
Personal user tools
After completing a simple registration individual users are able to make use of a variety of personal tools, like labeling or ´starring´ search results and found articles, making search alerts and saving search results of queries.
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Access to the Platform
Brill Online Reference Works supports IP recognition and access by username and password. In addition, access by Shibboleth and OpenAthens is supported.
Manage account details
Go to Brill Subscriber Services [subs.brillonline.com]
Login with your administrator username and password. Here you can:
- Manage your subscriptions
- Manage access details
- OpenURL preferences
- Maintain Shibboleth data
- Upload an institutional logo
- Create and download usage reports.
Brill Online Reference Works is COUNTER4 compliant and offers COUNTER4 statistics.
| COUNTER4 | Title | Platforms authenticated by Highwire SAMS | Description |
| BR1 | Book Report 1 (R4),Number of Successful Title Requests by Month and Title | https://referenceworks.brillonline.com/ | Usage of all publications that are XML based, which means that the reference works article online is an HTML page. |
| BR2 | Book Report 2 (R4),Number of Successful Section Requests by Month and Title | https://referenceworks.brillonline.com/ and https://primarysources.brillonline.com/ | Usage of for all publications on https://referenceworks.brillonline.com/ that have PDFs and collections on https://primarysources.brillonline.com/ that have Viewer documents. NB: Because the PDFs on in publications on https://referenceworks.brillonline.com/ are always linked to from a metadata page, you will usage of these same publications also in BR1 |
| BR3 | Book Report 3 (R4),Access Denied to Content Items by Month, Title and Category | https://referenceworks.brillonline.com/ and https://primarysources.brillonline.com/ | Access denied (no license) for publications (XML, PDF) and collections (Viewer) |
| DB1 | Database Report 1 (R4),Total Searches, Result Clicks and Record Views by Month and Database | https://bibliographies.brillonline.com/, https://chinesereferenceshelf.brillonline.com/ and https://dictionaries.brillonline.com/ | Usage on all separate databases, dictionaries and publications that are XML based |
| DB1 | Database Report 1 (R4),Total Searches, Result Clicks and Record Views by Month and Database | https://bibliographies.brillonline.com/, https://chinesereferenceshelf.brillonline.com/, https://dictionaries.brillonline.com/, https://www.arkyves.org/, https://primarysources.brillonline.com/, https://referenceworks.brillonline.com and https://ybio.brillonline.com | Usage on platform level for all platforms, each platform reported as if it is a database. |
| DB2 | Database Report 2 (R4),Access Denied by Month, Database and Category | https://bibliographies.brillonline.com/, https://chinesereferenceshelf.brillonline.com/, https://dictionaries.brillonline.com/ and https://www.arkyves.org/ | Access denied (no license) |
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