ManagementFirst A Presentation at the Rose System Seminar held at the Simorgh Hotel, Tehran, 19 Janu

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ManagementFirst A Presentation at the Rose
System Seminarheld at the Simorgh Hotel, Tehran,
19 January 2004

• Brian Berry
• Business Manager
• Emerald Group Publishing Ltd

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Agenda

• Emerald and ManagementFirst
• Emerald Products and Services
• ManagementFirst Products and Services

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Emerald ManagementFirst

• Formerly known as MCB University Press, Emerald
  was set up by academics in 1960s
• Today the Emerald Fulltext Database is used by
• - over 1000 universities
• - 5 of 6 top Business Schools in the world
• - 62 of the FT Top 100 Business Schools
• Directly relevant for researchers and MBA
  students
• Financial Times Top 100 Business Schools Survey
  2003

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ManagementFirst

• ManagementFirst is a support resource for
  subscribers to Emerald
• A selected number of the features are also
  available free of charge and can be accessed by
  becoming a member of ManagementFirst

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Emerald

• Leading international publisher of management and
  library journals
• 35 years of experience
• Publish over 130 titles
• 40,000 articles available online

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Emerald products

• Individual journals
• Emerald FT Database and its subsets
• Emerald Engineering Database
• Emerald Management Reviews
• Abstracts Databases covering Civil Engineering
  and Computers

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Emerald journals

• 91 management journals
• 23 library studies journals
• 20 specialist journals

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Management journals include

• Management Decision
• Strategic Direction
• Women in Management Review

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Marketing journals include

• European Journal of Marketing
• Journal of Consumer Marketing
• International Marketing Review

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Quality journals include

• TQM Magazine
• Measuring Business Excellence
• Quality Assurance in Education

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HR journals include

• Leadership and Organisation Development Journal
• Human Resource Management International Digest
• Women in Management Review

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Library journals include

• Journal of Documentation
• Library Management
• The Electronic Library

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Specialist journals include

• Clinical Governance
• International Journal of Health Care Quality
  Assurance
• British Food Journal

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Engineering journals include

• Anti-corrosion Methods and Materials
• Aircraft Engineering Aerospace Technology
• Assembly Automation

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Some key facts

• Emerald publish more journals on LIS than anyone
  else
• Emerald journals are chosen by 97 of the worlds
  top business schools
• Authors from 96 of the worlds top 100 business
  schools contribute articles to Emerald

according to the FT rankings
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Emerald Fulltext

• Our journals online in database format
• Available via the Internet since 1997
• Full text archive online back to 1994
• Search and browse the content

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Emerald Fulltext

• With EFT there is
• unlimited numbers of users
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• Archiving in perpetuity

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• For users we provide
• PowerPoint presentations
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  Award
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  com
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• Standard usage statistics reports
• Drill down into detail
• Over 600,000 articles downloaded every month
• For Jan-June 2003.

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Inter-Publisher Comparisons
Source Tom Sanville, Executive Director,
OhioLINK
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More key facts

• EFT used by over 1000 libraries
• 52 University Consortia worldwide
• Potential to reach 15 million users
• 8 million downloads in 2003
• 80 of journals peer-reviewed

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Emerald Mini-databases

• There are 11 subsets of the Emerald Fulltext
  Database which can be purchased separately,
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• - Emerald Engineering Library
• - Emerald Marketing Library
• - Emerald Human Resource Library
• - Emerald LIS Library

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Emerald Management Reviews

• 170,000 independent article reviews from the top
  400 management journals
• Accreditation board of top academics ensures only
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  Management Review, LRP
• Covers all key areas of management

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Emerald Abstracts Databases

• International Civil Engineering Abstracts
• Computer Abstracts International
• Computer Communications Security Abstracts

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Some Emerald Subscribers

• Universities in my region that subscribe to EFT
  include
• Tehran University, Kuwait University, Qatar
  University, UAE University, American University
  of Beirut, American University of Cairo, King
  Fahd University, Bilkent Universityplus many
  more

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ManagementFirst

• Online support resource for practising and
  researching managers, comprised of 9 Management
  Communities

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• Management communities
• Management Styles
• Marketing
• Change Management
• Strategy
• Knowledge Management
• Innovation
• E-Business
• Quality
• Human Resource

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New services for Managers, especially existing
Emerald subscribers
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providing value added

• Guru interviews
• Articles
• Feature of the month
• Discussions forums
• Learning curves
• Newsletters
• International events calendar
• These services are also free to registered
  members
• Can be purchased on individual basis

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Premier Management Reviews

• Updated monthly, this database contains 135,000
  independent reviews of the most critical business
  information published today (including Harvard
  Business Review, Sloan Management Review
  McKinsey Quarterly).

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I am positively impressed with the quality
and comprehensiveness of Emerald
Management Reviews. It is a valuable tool for
academics and practitioners alike. Philip
Kotler
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Some MF Subscribers

• International Corporates
• Unilever, IBM, Microsoft, British Aerospace,
  Shell
• Middle East Corporates
• Saudi Aramco, PDO Oman, ADNOC, QPC, Dubai
  Cable Co, Riyadh Bank, KNPC
• National libraries and Scientific Establishments
• King Fahd National Library, Scientific
  Technical Research Council of Turkey, KISR,
  Atomic Energy Commission of Syria

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Purchasing options for MF

• MF offers greater flexibility to managers whose
  needs are different to university academics and
  librarians
• MF prices range from a low 49 for a Learning
  Curve to a high 20,000 for the Emerald
  Management Database
• Pick Mix allows journal selections across
  various collections

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Thank youAny questions?