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1 Welcome to Emerald We are proud to partner with your institution in providing your library s patrons with high quality, relevant content

2 Emerald makes access easy My Profile Create your own space that will enable you to subscribe to alerts such as table of contents for your favourite journals or to our weekly digests for all journal issues published or saved search alerts. Why not take advantage of our marked list function, enabling you to save your favourite article links, and much more. Please register for Your Profi le by clicking register at the top right of the Emerald Insight page. Once you have created your own personal username and password, you can log in at the top of any Emerald page. Emerald can help you promote content to your patrons Request an campaign to be created by Emerald to forward to your faculty and students, outlining the content to which your institution now has access Request print Step-by-Step Guides for your institution (see right) Request Emerald posters and banners to be sent to your library, as a physical reminder that your institution has access to Emerald s content RSS Table of content RSS feed widgets are available for all ejournal and ebooks titles. Contact your Emerald Business Manager for more information. Emerald user guide Your institution has access to Emerald content... find out how you can benefit Step-by-step guidance and advice on accessing Emerald ejournals, ebook Series, Bibliographic Databases and Case Studies For the User Emerald s for the user section on provides a variety of tools and advice for the user. Features include: Article pay-per-view help Emerald s guide to adding citations Emerald help brief guides to searching and browsing How best to use browse, quick search and advanced search, as well as understand fully the results pages, are all covered in the following sections: - Top ten search tips - Using the browse functionality - Using quick and advanced search. Research in the News Research published by Emerald Group Publishing continues to make an impact not only in academic communities but also through its real-world practical applications. We now offer FREE access to a selection of our latest research in the fi elds of business and management, library and information science, social sciences, engineering, linguistics and audiology. Research in the News features a monthly selection of three to four articles/book chapters whose subject area is either very topical and/ or ground-breaking. The section demonstrates the real-world, practical application of Emerald content. Find out more here: publishing.com/rin/index.htm Contact us For any queries please contact us at our UK Head Offi ce: Emerald Group Publishing Limited Howard House, Wagon Lane, Bingley, United Kingdom, BD16 1WA T +44 (0) F +44 (0) E emerald@emeraldinsight.com

3 Emerald Digital Toolkit Emerald is now pleased to be able to provide a suite of widgets to enable you to access and share our latest research and news as they are published, direct to your online space of choice. What is a widget? Widgets add utility in the same way as an iphone application, bringing a stream of content through from a source to a specifi c location on the web. Widgets enhance the web experiences of visitors to: websites intranet sites blogs virtual learning environments social networking sites. An example of a live widget can be viewed here: support/digitaltoolkit Emerald widgets are great tools by which to keep your patrons and stakeholders connected to the latest research, news and offers from Emerald, including free access to Emerald s journals of the week. Table of Contents feed widget An Emerald-branded widget for all of our RSS feed Table of Contents alerts, across all ejournal and ebook titles. Be one of the fi rst to access the latest research across your subjects of interest, as it is published, to your online space of choice. Direct search widget An Emerald-branded, direct database search box widget, which enables website visitors to quickly and easily complete keyword searches of the Emerald database. Emerald information widget The offi cial Emerald-branded Twitter widget ideal to keep up to date with the latest news, views and offers. Mobile site Emerald content on the move. Our new mobile site is specifi cally designed for use on any mobile device with a web browser, including Apple ios, Android, Blackberry and other platforms. Recognizing that access time to content is extremely important for all researchers, the site can also be used on any desktop web browser as a stripped-down route to Emerald content. Within the mobile-ready Emerald website you will fi nd all of our journal and book content. Standard document delivery options are available including epub options for selected content plus marked list functionality. Why not also use our built-in social media tools to share content with your colleagues and peers? Content is conveniently organized by main subject area. Login via Athens, UK Federation WAYF Service and DFN is also supported. For more information visit:

4 Emerald can help your patrons locate relevant content Multimedia Zone... audio and video content from Emerald Emerald s Multimedia Zone features video and audio channels which provide information and insights on titles, articles and authors. Channels include: Video Abstracts short, informative summaries of recently published and notable Emerald articles fi lmed by the articles authors. Talking Management Series features insightful interviews with leading business fi gures and management writers. Management Reviews database, which is updated monthly with independent reviews of every article in the world s top management publications. multimedia Having publication resources such as these that are offered by Emerald makes an educator s work less burdensome. Joseph Sarkis, Editor Management Research Review, Clark University, Massachusetts, USA Editor/Author Interviews watch interviews and hear the thoughts of key Emerald contributors to books and journals. Podcasts and Audio Interviews audio content is drawn from reviews in our Emerald Emerald database training These training sessions focus on the Emerald resources available to library users, and will cover all aspects of the Emerald online platform. You will be provided with information which will help you perform effective searches within the database, and will be shown how to personalize your experience of the Emerald platform. For more information and appointments for scheduled User Training sessions please contact your Emerald Business Manager Social media resources Connect with us through social media Follow us on Twitter Find us on Facebook emeraldgrouppublishing Subscribe to our YouTube channel EmeraldPublishing67 Emerald Management ejournals are the birthstone of business research Frantz Telford, Coordinator of Collection Development, Alvin Sherman Library, Nova Southeastern University, Florida, USA

5 Emerald makes it easy for you to report For Librarians Emerald For Librarians is a webpage designed specifi cally for the library and information science (LIS) community to improve information services and better serve library users. Become a member now. Just follow the For Librarians link from the site home page and fi ll out the registration form to receive full access to our librarian resources. It s free! Emerald for Librarians resources emphasize the key role that information professionals can play in encouraging learners at all levels within their institutions by providing the following features: Managing your library Marketing your library Information management resources Features of the month Writing for LIS journals Support resources Library events As a library manager, I find the library content on Emerald particularly appealing. The section for librarians is a part of the Emerald platform that I would regularly consult to inform my work. Marie O Neill, Head of Library, Careers and Student Services, Dublin Business School, Ireland Emerald are committed to an ongoing programme of developments which will help support librarians in their mission to serve the needs of their patrons. If you are using a discovery service please let your Emerald contact know which one so we can optimise your experience with Emerald. Staff at Emerald stay in regular contact and are supportive and informative regarding new developments. Our subscription with Emerald is renewed year on year without hesitation. Marie O Neill, Head of Library, Dublin Business School, Ireland

6 Emerald provides support for your patrons to publish For Authors The For Authors section of the website (follow the For Authors link on the homepage) provides information on all aspects of writing. Practical tips and guidance on how to get work published and maximize dissemination are available, along with views from editors on what they look for in papers. Resources for contacting experienced copy editors to help improve papers are also provided. Features include: Impact of research Writing for Emerald Emerald Literati Network Editing service How to guides Editor Interviews Guides to Getting Published Guides to Getting Published Guides to Getting Published are based on our experience of working with the editors of more than 200 journals and provide insight to help new or potential authors to give their papers the best possible chance of acceptance and publication. Given by the Emerald team, editors and other representatives, they can feature presentations, question and answer sessions and, time and presenter permitting, individual clinic sessions. As part of our commitment to actively supporting our authors existing and future Guides are aimed at helping authors to progress successfully through the various stages from pre-submission of the manuscript, to revision and, fi nally, publication. There is no cost to your institution for hosting a Guide. Introduction to copyright Emerald provides full guidance on copyright. The Best practice in publication guidelines, Originality guidelines, and Permissions for your manuscript sections of the Writing for Emerald section of our webiste provide in-depth information on issues pertaining to copyright. Awards for Excellence Emerald s publishing philosophy highlights six areas that inform the development of our journals and books: internationality; diversity; support for scholarly research; encouragement of applied research (impact); commitment to high quality scholarship; and a desire to ensure that reader, author and customer experience is the best it can be. These are also the areas to which we look when we recognise and reward the efforts of authors and editors and celebrate the outstanding contributions many have made, not only to our journals and books, but also to the body of knowledge itself. Your author relations initiatives are unparalleled in the publishing world. Baird Brightman, Worklife Strategies, MA, USA

7 MANAGING INFORMATION ASLIB Membership and Subscription Networking Training Leading Publications ASLIB has a range of membership and subscription options to support the needs of you and your organisation and which give access to Networking, Training and Leading Publications. ASLIB has been helping information professionals for nearly 90 years and continues to play a strong role in professional development. Corporate membership starts at (+VAT) For further information, contact ASLIB at: support@aslib.com Tel: +44 (0)