Emerald Subject Collections for FE 2012

Key Dates

Start: 1 January 2012 End: 31 December 2014

Benefits

Clear and transparent pricing
Savings over direct purchase
Annual opt out if required

Eligible Institutions

Further Education in the UK and Ireland.

Background Information

Addition to the popular previous agreement. There has been a continuous agreement for Emerald products since 1 June 1998.

Supplier Details

Owner: Emerald Group Publishing Limited

Product Description

Subject Collections comprising:

Accounting and Finance

A collection of journals covering quantitative and qualitative research across the field, including sustainability, financial regulation, accounting education and Islamic finance.

Economics

A collection of cjournals covering every JEL Classification code in the field.

International Business

At the forefront of highly topical debates, these journals feature subjects including cross-cultural management, multinational business, emerging markets studies and international competitiveness.

Marketing

One of the largest collections of journals in this field and comprising:

Enterprise and Innovation

A collection of journals covering established areas as well as emerging topics such as social enterprise, gender and entrepreneurship

Tourism and Hospitality

The journal collection includes contributions from researchers in more than 40 countries, maintaining an international readership

Access and Identity Management Solution

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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.
Usage statistics	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

All prices are in GBP and exclude VAT.

Emerald Subject Collections for FE

1 January - 31 December	2012	2013	2014
Accounting and Finance	£1,000	£1,050	£1,103
Economics	£1,000	£1,050	£1,103
International Business	£1,000	£1,050	£1,103
Marketing	£1,000	£1,050	£1,103
Enterprise and Innovation	£500	£525	£551
Tourism and Hospitality	£1,000	£1,050	£1,103

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 FE Order Form (PDF, 585 Kb) is required. You can use the same form to order other Emerald products.

When completed the form should be returned to:

As a PDF by email: help@eduserv.org.uk
By Fax: 01225 474301
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’.

Please note that 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.

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

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.

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