MCB/Emerald
Name of service: Emerald
• License in place: country-wide for all
university libraries, not-for-profit research and
learning institutes within <COUNTRY NAME>
• Each institute within <COUNTRY NAME>
needs to register (details at
www.inasp.info/peri/resources/emerald.shtml)
– Allows site specific usage stats
– by IP address: automatically authenticated access
– Password/username available if IP not possible
Content available
• Service Type: online journals database
• Access to over 100 LIS titles, also provides
access to leading titles in marketing,
business, engineering and materials science.
• Subject strengths
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computer science
library and information sciences
management
marketing
engineering
Getting started
• Load Emerald
homepage
http://www.emeraldinsight.com
Homepage
Link to Emerald Academic,
with ‘Help’ information for
librarians and users
Click here to enter Emerald’s
‘Fulltext’ service
Link directly to list of journals
Links to separate areas with
information specifically for
users and librarians
Search ‘Fulltext’ page
Use tabs to choose Search,
Browse (journal titles) or
Help
Click here to Log in
Choose to move to
advanced search here
Choose which fields to
search in here
Searching continued…
Choice of fields (e.g. abstract,
keywords, author, title) in which
you can search
Help available here
Your search history (i.e. searches you have
performed previously) are shown here
List of Issues Page
Link to Simple and
Advanced search
facilities
Link to further
information
about the
journal, support
resources, and
setting up a
Table of
Contents alert
Click to link to the issue you want.
Expanding list of issues keeps
page size to a minimum.
Table of Contents Page
List of titles, authors
and key words
Click on page number to
access article
Article level features
Journal details
and abstract allow
you to see
whether you really
want to access the
whole article
Click here for
information about
copyright
Navigation bar
allows you to click
access to other
parts of the issue
or article
Choose which format
you would like the
article in and click
‘Request article’
Further reading
• Lots of general help available at
– http://www.emeraldinsight.com/reso
urces/
• Help for librarians available by clicking
on ‘Librarian services’ on left hand side
of home page.