Leiden (NL) / Boston (MA) / Singapore (SG) – 12 January 2016

Brill is proud to announce that three Brill publications have made Choice magazine’s 2015 list of Outstanding Academic Titles. Selected by Choice review editors, the awarded titles are representative of Brill’s rich publishing program.

Out of over 7,000 reviews in Choice during the previous calendar year, only 10% are selected as “Outstanding Academic Titles” and published in the Choice January issue each year. The awarded titles represent the extraordinary scientific and scholarly quality in their respective discipline. For more information about their selection criteria, please visit their website.

Choice is an important source for reviews of academic books, electronic media, and online resources of interest to those in higher education. Choice is a publication of Association of College & Research Libraries (ACRL) and a division of American Library Association (ALA).

The list of Brill’s winning titles with our sincere congratulations to their authors:

The Dead Sea Scrolls and the Developmental Composition of the Bible
Eugene Ulrich, University of Notre Dame

Networks and Trans-cultural Exchange
Slave Trading in the South Atlantic, 1590-1867
Edited by David Richardson, University of Hull, and Filipa Ribeiro da Silva, University of Macau

A Student's Dictionary of Classical and Medieval Chinese
Paul W. Kroll, Professor of Chinese at the University of Colorado
With the assistance of William G. Boltz, David R. Knechtges, Y. Edmund Lien, Antje Richter, Matthias L. Richter and Ding Xiang Warner
Also available in paperback.

Our Choice Outstanding Academic Titles from 2013 and 2014.
More information about Choice.
Questions about these or other Brill titles? Please contact us a marketing@brill.com.

About Brill
Founded in 1683 in Leiden, the Netherlands, Brill is a leading international academic publisher in 20 main subject areas, including Middle East and Islamic Studies, Asian Studies, Classical Studies, History, Biblical and Religious Studies, Language & Linguistics, Biology, and International Law. With offices in Leiden and Boston and a representative office in Singapore, Brill today publishes 230 journals and around 1000 new books and reference works each year, available in both print and electronic form. Brill also markets a large number of primary source research collections and databases. The company’s key customers are academic and research institutions, libraries, and scholars. Brill is a publicly traded company and is listed on Euronext Amsterdam NV. For more information, visit www.brill.com.

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The new Facet catalogue is out now and available to download here: http://bit.ly/1NLky5F. The catalogue contains details about all new Facet books publishing in the first half of 2016 including the following highlights:

• Exploring Discovery: The front door to a library's licensed digitized content
• Critical Literacy for Information Professionals
• RDA Essentials
• Digital Curation, 2nd edition
• Practical Ontologies for Information Professionals
• Emerging Strategies for Supporting Student Learning
• The Innovative School Librarian, 2nd edition
• Shared Collections: Collaborative stewardship
• Management Skills for Archivists and Records Managers
• Dynamic Research Support for Academic Libraries.

You can download a PDF of the catalogue here: http://bit.ly/1NLky5F or email info@facetpublishing.co.uk to request a print copy.