Key Dates

Start: 1 January 2012 End: 31 December 2014 

Benefits

• Clear and transparent journal bundle pricing 
• Savings over individual title subscription 
• Options for extended educational use and commercial projects

Eligible Institutions

Universities, colleges and other learning, educational and research bodies in the UK and Republic of Ireland.

Other organisations aligned with Eduserv’s charitable objectives of supporting education, research bodies and the public sector may ask to participate in the Agreement. Eduserv will liaise with the Supplier about any such requests.

Background Information

Renewal of popular previous agreement. There has been a continuous agreement for Emerald Management e-Journals since 1 June 1998.

Supplier Details

Owner: Emerald Group Publishing Limited

Product Description

Full text journals (available in bundles of 111, 125, 150, 175 and “plus” – every journal published by Emerald not including acquired titles) - Emerald Management eJournals 2012 full list of titles (XLS, 272 Kb)  .

Emerald Management eJournals provide you with access to over 100,000 high quality peer-reviewed articles from more than 230 journals and 24 management subject areas.

Featuring journals that are indexed by Thomson Reuters (ISI) and Scopus, content is selected for original contribution to the subject field, as well as practical relevance to policy making, management and future inquiry.

With new articles continually being added, a subscription puts the latest international thinking into the hands of students, researchers and practitioners in business, from the world’s leading scholarly publisher in the field.
 
Emerald Management Plus
The premium and most comprehensive of the collections, Emerald Management Plus provides you with access to the entire collection of over 230 journals as well as instant access to new titles launched in the field of business and management, as soon as they are published.

Access and Identity Management Solution

Key - Available Not Available

OpenAthens
IP Address range
Shibboleth
Username / Password

Technical Function Specification

The supplier confirms that throughout the term of the agreement the products will comply with the standards of features indicated.

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Technical Function	Standard	Compliance	Supplier Notes
Full text linking	OpenURL		Emerald service adheres to the OpenURL industry standards
Federated searching	Z39.50 protocol
Harvesting	SRW/SRU
	OAI-PMH
	RSS or Atom		Web feed formats
Metadata standards	Dublin Core		Emerald currently uses XML standards for Metadata and data is delivered via XML, SGML and PDF.
	MARC		Emerald provides MARC records for its Journal content.
	PRISM
Months embargo period		0	Emerald journals do not have an embargo period
Digital preservation	LOCKSS		More than 270 e-journal titles preserved in the LOCKSS programme
	CLOCKSS
	PORTICO
Usage statistics	COUNTER		Emerald service adheres to the "COUNTER" standards.
	SUSHI
Accessibility	Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG)		Emerald aims to make all public Web pages meet level AA, and will aspire to meet level AAA where possible within resource constraints.
Personalisation features			Once a user has registered on ‘My Profile' they can create a range of customised 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.
Service levels

Updates

The frequency of updates will vary with each journal title but all are included in the cost.

Alterations/Additions

All additions (newly launched titles) will be incorporated at no additional charge to EMeJ Plus. All new functionality of the Emerald platform is included for all products at no additional cost.

Pricing

There is separate pricing for Higher and Further Education Institutions. All prices are in GBP and exclude VAT.

For Higher Education, in addition to the Core Licence, there are additional optional licence extensions. These are described in the Licence information section.

Higher Education

Year 1 1 January - 31 December 2012
	EMeJ 111	EMeJ 125	EMeJ150	EMeJ 175	EMeJ Plus
Core Licence	£19,298	£21,637	£24,080	£27,130	£29,660
Education Purpose Licence extension	£1,930	£2,164	£2,408	£2,713	£2,966
Alumni extension	£3,473	£4,586	£5,733	£6,748	£7,874
Education Purpose Licence and Alumni extension	£4,322	£5,400	£6,513	£7,569	£8,672
Extended Commercial Licence	£1,351	£1,515	£1,686	£1,899	£2,076

Year 2 1 January - 31 December 2013
	EMeJ 111	EMeJ 125	EMeJ150	EMeJ 175	EMeJ Plus
Core Licence	£20,263	£22,719	£25,284	£28,487	£31,143
Education Purpose Licence extension	£2,026	£2,272	£2,528	£2,849	£3,114
Alumni extension	£3,647	£4,815	£6,020	£7,085	£8,268
Education Purpose Licence and Alumni extension	£4,538	£5,670	£6,838	£7,947	£9,106
Extended Commercial Licence	£1,418	£1,590	£1,770	£1,994	£2,180

Year 3 1 January - 31 December 2014
	EMeJ 111	EMeJ 125	EMeJ150	EMeJ 175	EMeJ Plus
Core Licence	£21,276	£23,855	£26,548	£29,911	£32,700
Education Purpose Licence extension	£2,128	£2,385	£2,655	£2,991	£3,270
Alumni extension	£3,829	£5,056	£6,321	£7,440	£8,681
Education Purpose Licence and Alumni extension	£4,765	£5,953	£7,180	£8,345	£9,561
Extended Commercial Licence	£1,489	£1,670	£1,858	£2,094	£2,289

 

FURTHER EDUCATION	01 January - 31 December
Product	2012	2013	2014
EMeJ 111	£1,480	£1,554	£1,632
EMeJ 175	£3,272	£3,436	£3,607
EMeJ Plus	£4,000	£4,200	£4,410

Further Education Colleges can purchase the Educational Purposes Licence Extension for an additional 50% of the fee shown above.

Upgrades

A site can upgrade at any time paying the pro-rata difference between product levels.

Subscribers to Emerald EMeJ may also be interested in purchasing the Emerald Backfile.

Payment Terms

On receipt of a completed Order, Institutions will be invoiced for the Agreement year in which the Licence is signed.

In subsequent years, institutions will be invoiced three months in advance of the anniversary date of the Agreement, on 1 October 2012 and 1 October 2013.

There is monthly pro-rata charging for institutions which become licensed partway through a licence year.

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.

Agreement Period

Start date: 01 January 2012 End date: 31 December 2014

Institution Commitment Period

This Agreement is of 3 years duration. Institutions may join the agreement at any time during the agreement period. They will then be committed to the end of the Agreement Period from the date of issue of the Licence unless they give notice to Eduserv before 15 September 2012 for renewals from 1 January 2013 and 15 September 2013 for renewals from 1 January 2014.

How to Order

One copy of the  HE Order Form (PDF, 868 Kb)   or  FE Order Form (PDF, 587 Kb)   (as appropriate) is required. You an use the same form to order other Emerald products.

When completed the form 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

along with an Institution Purchase Order for the full amount due plus VAT, made out to ‘Eduserv’.

This overview is designed to provide a general summary of the agreement. Before committing to buy a licence, potential subscribers must always read the licence terms, paying particular attention to any special licence conditions.

Licence Type

Site licence with Eduserv Standard Chest Licence Terms and Conditions. In addition to the Core Licence there are additional, optional extensions available;

• Option for Extended Educational Use – this extension is required if the licensee wants to extend secure access to students and the staff instructing them who are not members of the licensed institution. For example, users in partner colleges in UK or overseas or students on franchised or validated courses.
  
  Emerald has agreed to allow students who are registered at the licensed institution but who are also registered at another UK or Irish institution to access under the core licence without the need to purchase an extended educational option, whether or not the other UK or Irish Institution also holds a licence from Emerald.
  
  Emerald requires that the licensed institution must purchase an Extended Educational Use Licence for those students who are registered to another institution, but receive qualification accredited or validated by the licensed institution. This applies to both UK/Irish and overseas students.
  
• Licence Extension for Commercial Projects – this can be purchased in addition to the Option for Extended Educational Use and means that a licensee can use the resource in projects that are deemed ‘commercial’, for example; where they receive payment from third parties, for non-academic research, consultancy services or where they have the majority or controlling interest in a trading company, partnership, joint venture or other collaborations.
  
  Emerald has agreed that use of their resources by research students funded by commercial organisations does not constitute commercial use. These researchers are welcome to use the results of their research in their workplace, but having left the university must no longer be allowed access to Emerald resources under the university’s licence unless the university purchases an alumni extension.
  
• Optional Extension for Alumni - this extension can be purchased separately and allows the licensee to extend secure access to Alumni for “Educational Purposes”.

What institutions and library services are allowed to do?

The Core Licence allows the following activities;

Allowed Not Allowed
Keep a local cached copy for Educational Purposes – [see Licence Term 2.2(a)]
Incorporation of parts of the Licensed Material – [see Licence Terms 2.2(f)/(h)/(j)]
Deposit of learning and teaching objects in repositories – [see Licence Term 2.2(k)]
Interlibrary loan – [see Licence Term 2.2(m)]

Who can use the resource?

The Core Licence allows use by all Authorised Users, defined as Students, Staff and Walk-in Users – [see Licence Terms 1.1(a)(i)/(ii)/(iii)]

Allowed Not Allowed
Students are people undertaking education or research who are included in the Licensee’s (and not any other party’s) report to government authorities of student numbers
Staff are any personnel used by the Licensee to instruct or direct Students, the Licensee’s research staff and administrative and management personnel
Walk-in Users are any persons who while on the Licensee’s premises use the resources for private study or personal interest only
Alumni	Licence extension available at additional cost

What can authorised users do?

The resources can be used for Educational Purposes – see Licence Term 1.1(b):

• education
• teaching 
• distance learning 
• private study 
• academic research
• administration and management of the Licensee’s educational or research operations

Exclusions

• See Licence Term 3 for exclusions and restrictions
  
• The resources may not be used for anything other than Educational Purposes unless the Licence Extension for Commercial Projects has been bought; this allows use for the restricted “Commercial Projects” defined – see Annex B of the Licence (Licence Extension for Commercial Projects) and prices.
  
• Downloading of large amounts of material by authorised users that might be considered ‘systematic’.
  

Termination Clauses

The Licensee may retain an electronic copy of the Licensed Material in its archives for reference only. Copies of parts of the Licensed Material already made and/or used by the Licensee or Authorised Users in accordance with clause 2.2 may be retained and used in accordance with the terms of this Licence Agreement – see Licence Term 10.5.

The Licensee retains the right to the material published in the year in which they subscribed. This will continue to be accessed from the Emerald platform and no access fee applies.

Personal Licences

Personal Licences are not available under this Agreement.

Trials

A 30 day free trial is available. Please contact Eduserv Help with contact details and IP range. 

Login Information

Supplier: www.emeraldinsight.com

Technical Support

Support will be provided via a single contact or his/her deputy at each Institution. Contact details:

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

Product Documentation

Comprehensive help files are included in the Online service

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

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.

Training and Training Materials

All queries about training should be directed to the Emerald Helpdesk.

Brief Guides are available.

In addition, to keep abreast of issues, librarians can sign up to the free Librarian service (registration required) available from Emerald.