Licence Information

• 1. Agreement Details
  • 1.1 Product Name
  • 1.2 Product Owner
  • 1.3 Product Supplier
  • 1.4 Service Provider
  • 1.5 Agreement & Site Commitment Periods
• 2. Eligible Institutions
• 3. Products Covered
• 4. Product Descriptions
• 5. Licence Type
• 6. Personal Licences
• 7. Post Termination of Agreement Period
• 8. Alterations/Additions to Databases and New Functionality
• 9. User Rights
• 10. Usage Rights

Support

• 11. Background Detail/Community Evaluation
• 12. Institution Evaluation
• 13. Product Documentation
• 14. Right to Copy Documentation
• 15. Training and Training Materials
• 16. Document Delivery
• 17. Initial Consultancy/Support
• 18. WWW Addresses

Service

• 19. Method of Access
• 20. System Requirements
• 21. Updates
• 22. Functionality
• 23. Access Management System

   

Signing Up

• 24. Pricing
• 25. Payment Terms
• 26. How to Order

Licence Information

1. Agreement Details

This Overview represents the detail of the formal Agreement which exists between Eduserv and Emerald Group Publishing Limited (Emerald). The following sections are written to enable Institutions to make a decision as to whether or not the product is appropriate for their needs.  

1.1 Product Name

Emerald Backfile

1.2 Product Owner

Emerald Group Publishing Limited
Howard House
Wagon Lane
Bingley BD16 1WA
United Kingdom

1.3 Product Supplier

Emerald Group Publishing Limited
Howard House
Wagon Lane
Bingley BD16 1WA
United Kingdom

1.4 Service Provider

Emerald Group Publishing Limited
Howard House
Wagon Lane
Bingley BD16 1WA
United Kingdom

1.5 Agreement & Site Commitment Periods

This agreement commences on 1^st January 2009 and terminates on 31^st December 2011.

Institutions may participate at any time during the period and will be bound until the end of the Agreement 31^st December 2011.

The Institution commits to pay an upfront fee on signing up to this agreement or (for Higher Education only) an amortised fee over a three year period – the data is then the institutions to use under these terms and conditions in perpetuity and subject to no further charge provided they retain a subscription to the current data (EMX 95, EMX111, EMX125, EMX150, EMX175 or EMX Plus). The Agreement to which this refers is a formal Agreement between Eduserv and Emerald.

2. Eligible Institutions

This Agreement is available to Higher and Further Education Institutions in the UK and the Republic of Ireland, Research Councils in the UK and to Eduserv Associated Sites.

Bona Fide education institutions in other countries may also be able to participate, for example, members of IATUL, but require approval on a case by case basis and on application to Eduserv.

3. Products Covered

Emerald Backfile for titles digitized in 2008. For a full list of titles available under this agreement please download this document.

4. Product Description

With a collection that dates back to the nineteenth century, Emerald Backfiles form an interesting and important record for business and management scholars and social historians alike.

Emerald Backfiles contains:

Subject	Number of titles	Dating back to
Accounting, Finance and Legal	10	1967
Education & Healthcare	8	1899
Engineering	17	1929
Human Resource Management	13	1959
Industry Sectors, Innovation & International Business	11	1946
Information and Knowledge Management	13	1945
Library Management and Library Studies	8	1898
Management Science, Economics and Social Policy	9	1967
Marketing	11	1967
Quality and Operations Management	10	1952
Strategy, General Management & Property	10	1975

Features:

Coverage back to Volume 1 Issue 1 with some articles dating back as far as 1899.

Over 120 journal titles will complete the Emerald Digital Backfiles, providing users with more than 60,000 articles on key management disciplines.

Each backfile has been transformed into a fully searchable PDF.

Emerald Backfiles contain early articles from seminal publications such as British Food Journal, European Journal of Marketing and Journal of Documentation.

A full list of titles included under this agreement (and clarification of those that are not) is available online.

5. Licence Type

Site licence with normal Eduserv Licence Negotiation Services terms and conditions.

Eduserv General Licence Conditions for Datasets (Revised Edition effective from 1 January 2008).

6. Personal Licences

Personal Licences are not available under this Agreement.

7. Post Termination of Agreement Period

Material may continue to be accessed and downloaded under the Agreement after its expiry and can continue to be used under the same licence conditions as pertain while the Agreement exists.

8. Alterations/Additions to Databases and New Functionality

Additions to the Backfile will only be included under this agreement at additional cost. The Backfile purchased is effectively “frozen” and is as per the title list and backfile depth.

9. User Rights

Authorised Users:

“Authorised User" means a type of user who is a currently registered student of the Licensee, a faculty member or an employee of the Licensee, in each case authorised by the Licensee to access the Licensee's library and information services whether from a computer or terminal on the Licensee's Secure Network or offsite via a Secure Access Management System or, in the case of Licensed Materials, access to the Licensee's onsite library facilities.

For full details see: Eduserv General Licence Conditions (Revised edition effective from 1^st January 2008)

Other Permitted Users:

means the following categories of User that are permitted to have access to the Products via a Licensee’s library and information services whether from a computer terminal on the Licensee’s Secure Network or offsite via a Secure Access Management System or via the Licensee’s onsite library facilities:

• students undertaking a course of study leading to a qualification awarded by the Licensee;
  teachers of Authorised Users and librarians involved in their instruction and support who are not employed by the Licensed Institution;
• retired members of staff of a Licensed Institution;
• visiting academics, researchers and research supervisors from other educational or research establishments;
• visiting students from other educational establishments;
• any person associated with the Licensee but not employed by the Licensee such as pastoral and welfare workers or support people;

The following category of User is permitted to have access under certain licence circumstances to the Products via a Licensee’s library and information services whether from a computer terminal on the Licensee’s Secure Network or offsite via a Secure Access Management System or via the Licensee’s onsite library facilities.

• bona fide members of a Licensee’s Alumni Association;
  This is conditional upon the Alumni option being subscribed to and is granted for personal development only. To sign up for this option please tick the relevant box on the Emerald HE order form. If an institution takes this option then Emerald has agreed that subscribing sites can charge Alumni to access their content FOR CONTINUING PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT PURPOSES ONLY.

Also Permitted:

• Walk in Users.
  A walk in user is defined as a person other than an Authorised User who is permitted to access the secure network of the Licensed Institutions only via a computer or terminal within the Licensed User's premises.

10. Usage Rights

Inter-Library Loan

Emerald will allow, within the boundary of UK, Inter-Library Loan by supply from Licensed Institution to an authorised user of another library (whether by post, fax or secure electronic transmission, using Ariel or its equivalent, whereby the electronic file is deleted immediately after printing) a paper copy of an electronic original of parts of the Licensed Work.

Incorporation of parts of the Licensed Work

Emerald will allow incorporation of parts of the Licensed Work for use by Authorised Users in printed and electronic course packs, study packs, resource lists and in any other material to be used in the course of instruction and/or in virtual and managed environments hosted on a Secure Network. Emerald will allow incorporation in printed or electronic form in assignments and portfolios, theses and in dissertations including reproductions of same for personal use and library deposit.

Each item shall carry appropriate acknowledgement of the source, listing title and copyright owner.

Institutional Repositories

Emerald will allow Licensee to deposit the learning and teaching objects as created above in electronic repositories operated by the Licensee on a Secure Network and in the JORUM Repository. The access and use of such learning and teaching objects shall be governed by the terms and conditions of the applicable repository.

Support

11. Background Detail/Community Evaluation

This agreement forms part of the renewal of the successful two previous agreements that Eduserv has negotiated with Emerald.

12. Institution Evaluation

There is currently no trial available.

13. Product Documentation

Comprehensive help files are included in the Online service

• Help Guides for Librarians
• User Guides for end user assistance

14. Right to Copy Documentation

Copying of hardcopy and electronic documentation is permitted for staff and registered students and other permitted users except Alumni. Alumni specifically:

Where additional access has been subscribed to for Alumni (who have access to subscribing library’s facilities) they may copy parts of both hardcopy and electronic for personal use only and may not distribute it without requesting permission through either Rightslink or emailing permissions@emeraldinsight.com.

15. Training and Training Materials

All queries should be directed to the Emerald Helpdesk below.

In addition signing up to the free Librarian service (registration required) available from Emerald will assist Librarian in keeping abreast of issues in Emerald. 

16. Document Delivery

Document delivery is available via Emerald's partner Infotrieve.

17. Initial Consultancy/Support

Support will be provided by Emerald via a single contact or his/her deputy at each Institution. Emerald support can be contacted at:

• email: support@emeraldinsight.com
• phone: 01274 785 278
• fax: 01274 785 204 
  

18. WWW Addresses

Supplier: www.emeraldinsight.com

Service

19. Method of Access

World Wide Web over JANET/Internet

20. System Requirements

Minimum Requirements/Browser Recommendations:

Online Service:

• Netscape 4.0 (or higher)
• Internet Explorer 4.0 (or higher)
• Firefox 2.0 (or higher)
• Safari 3.1.1 (or higher, PC version)

21. Updates

The Backfile is static and any content added will be at additional cost.

22. Functionality

COUNTER Compliance
Emerald service currently adheres to the “COUNTER” (Counting Online Usage of NeTworked Electronic Resources) industry standards

OpenURL standards
Emerald service currently adheres to the OpenURL industry standards to format search requests and supply results so that the appropriate copy is returned to the user, in the form of a web page.

Federated Searching
Emerald Service does not currently support Bath Profile Z39.50 rules and procedures for communicating between two computer systems for searching and retrieving information from databases specification used. This is being considered for implementation in 2009.

Metadata Standards
Emerald currently uses XML standards for Metadata and data is delivered via XML, SGML and PDF

W3C Guidelines
For HTML web pages, Emerald follows W3C guidelines. W3C is the governing authority on Web development standards and practices.The W3C defines three accessibility levels in its Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) issue 1.0. In increasing levels of accessibility, these are: A , AA , and AAA. Emerald aims to make all public Web pages meet level AA, and will aspire to meet level AAA where possible within resource constraints.

MARC Records
Emerald provides MARC records for its Journal content

Full Text Linking
Emerald uses CrossRef and DOIs to provide reference linking services.

Personalisation features
Once a user has registered on ‘My Profile’ they can create a range of customized features, including: RSS Feeds; Saved Search Alerts, ToC Alerts and Weekly Digests of subscribed or all journals; create Marked Lists; and subscribe to Emerald Newsletters. There are a range of communities for different end-users (authors, librarians, researchers, teachers) which offer interactive participation

23. Access Management System

Authentication by:
Open ATHENS
IP address range
SHIBBOLETH – planned for January 2009

Athens - Sites will need to provide their Athens organisation ID

Shibboleth - sites will need to provide:

Affiliation, which indicates what type of users can access the resources. Values that are accepted in this field whould be student, staff, faculty, member, etc.

Scope, which indicates where these users are coming from within the university. Typical values here would be uni.ac.uk, staffmail.uni.ac.uk, etc..

Signing Up

24. Pricing

Higher Education price to sites

An institution must purchase at the same product level as its current subscription. By way of example an institution subscribing to EMX 95 current data will pay £12,000 for the Backfile whereas an institution with a current subscription to EMX175 will pay £10,000.

If an institution upgrades their current subscription to a greater number of titles after purchase of the Backfile no refund shall be due in respect of the outright purchase or payment over 3 years.

Product	Licence Type	2009	2010	2011
Higher Education
EMeJ 95	1 off payment	£12,000	£12,000	£12,000
EMeJ 111
EMeJ 125	1 off payment	£11,000	£11,000	£11,000
EMeJ 150
EMeJ 175	1 off payment	£10,000	£10,000	£10,000
EMeJ Plus

Instalment plan

Product	Licence Type	Charge per annum
Higher Education
EMeJ 95	Annual Subscription (for 3 years)	£4,667
EMeJ 111
EMeJ 125	Annual Subscription (for 3 years)	£4,334
EMeJ 150
EMeJ 175	Annual Subscription (for 3 years)	£4,000
EMeJ Plus

FE price to sites

Product	Licence Type	2009	2010	2011
Further Education	1 off payment	£2,000	£2,000	£2,000

No pro-rata is available. All figures exclude VAT. 

Subscriptions to current content is available under the Emerald Management eJournals

25. Payment Terms

The one off fee will be due on receipt of licence. There shall be no prorating of the fee.

The initial fee for the annual option will be due on receipt of licence or 1^st January 2009 (whichever is the later) and 1^st January annually thereafter for a period of two years making 3 equal instalments.

On receipt of full payment (as indicated in 23 above) no further charges are due provided a subscription to the current data is maintained. Otherwise the platform fee in force at the date of cancellation of current subscription shall apply.

All Purchase Orders must be made out to Eduserv and Eduserv's invoices must be paid within 30 calendar days of the date of the invoice.  

26. How to Order

This product may be ordered as part of a suite of products from Emerald on single order covering multiple products or on a standalone basis. Please complete one copy of:

On initial sign-up to the agreement:

One original signed copy of the Licence (Schedule 4) is required:

• Licence (Schedule 4)

One copy of the initial order form is required

• HE Order Form 
• FE Order Form

When completed the forms should be returned to:

1. As a PDF by email: help@eduserv.org.uk
2. By Fax: 01225 474301 
3. By post to:

Eduserv
Royal Mead
Railway Place
Bath
BA1 1SR

Last updated 21 August 2009