Emerald Group Publishing

Emerald Group Publishing
Founded 1967
Country of origin United Kingdom
Headquarters location Bingley, West Yorkshire, England
Key people Dr Keith Howard; Chairman Richard Bevan; CEO
Publication types Academic journals, Books, Book series
Nonfiction topics Management, business, social sciences, library studies, education, health & social care, engineering and more
Revenue Increase £39.3M (2015)[1]
No. of employees 250 (2015) [1]
Official website www.emeraldgrouppublishing.com

Emerald Publishing Limited is a scholarly publisher of academic journals and books in the fields of management, business, education, library studies, health care, and engineering. It was founded in the United Kingdom in 1967 and has its headquarters in Bingley. The company manages a portfolio of more than 290 journals and over 2650 books and book series volumes. It operates worldwide with offices and associates in Australia, Brazil, China, the Czech Republic, Dubai, India, Indonesia, Japan, Lithuania, Malaysia, Mexico, Singapore, South Africa, South Korea, Turkey, and the United States. The company is based in Howard House on the outskirts of Bingley, West Yorkshire.

History

Emerald was formed in 1967 as Management Consultants Bradford (MCB) by a group of academics dissatisfied by the publishing outlets of the time.[2] It acquired its first journal, Management Decision (originally the British Journal of Management), the following year for £1.[3] One of the co-founders, Barrie Pettman, served as its chairman.[4] Fifty academics from the University of Bradford Management Centre each paid £100 for a share in the company in 1969 to allow the company to buy a building on Keighley Road, Bradford, West Yorkshire. The first employee was hired in 1970.[3] Individual journals were managed as separate companies and MCB became a "service company" for the journal companies. In 1977 the individual journal companies were merged into one company, MCB Publications Ltd.[3]

By 1981 the company had grown to 20 employees and was publishing 15 journals. From 1982 through 1997 the company was the official publisher for an independent action learning business school (International Management Centres). The year also saw the acquisition of Anbar, which later became Emerald Reviews. In 1984 company expansion resulted in a move to new premises on Toller Lane, Bradford.[5] By 1990 it was publishing 65 journals.[3] MCB was renamed Emerald in 2001.[3]

In 1992 Floppy Anbar (CD-ROM) was launched. This was accompanied by Literati, a database and network of authors and editors. In 1994, the company began publishing some of its journals as the Electronic Management Research Library Database (EMERALD) on CD-ROM. Emerald Fulltext journals became available in 1995, rebranded as Emerald Management Xtra in 2004. Emerald launched the ManagementFirst website in 2000 (it later became Emerald ManagementFirst in 2007), aimed at corporate customers. By 2002, there were 153 employees and 1.5m article downloads.

In 2006 Emerald announced a partnership with iParadigms, the developers of the Turnitin anti-plagiarism detection product.[6] In 2007 Emerald acquired a programme of Management and Social Science book serials, series and monographs from Elsevier.[7]

The acquisition of health and social care publisher Pier Professional Limited took place in 2011.[8] In 2014 Emerald was one of several publishers to sign a deal to partner with Kudos, a service that helps increase the impact of published articles.[9]

In quarter 3 of 2014, Emerald Insight was transferred to Atypon's Literatum platform.

In 2015 Emerald began preserving its e-books with Portico. Emerald has been preserving its e-journals with Portico since 2009.[10] In June 2015, the Emerald acquisition of GoodPractice was announced. GoodPractice is a provider of support tools for leaders and senior managers.[11] In July 2015, Emerald announced a green open access zero month embargo trial.[12] Emerald partnered with CLOCKSS Archive in 2015 to preserve ejournals and ebooks.[13]

At the London Book Fair 2015, Emerald publisher Dr. Martyn Lawrence featured in the programme as a speaker in the session 'Do You Really Need A PhD To Work In Scholarly Publishing? The Insiders' Guide To Getting Ahead In Your Career.'[14][15]

Products

Emerald eJournals includes over 120,000 articles from nearly 290 journals. The eJournal product is a cross disciplinary journal database including peer-reviewed, international research in both established and emerging areas of interest. Emerald's portfolio also contains over 2,650 books and book series volumes in specialist fields such as Business & Management, Education, Engineering, Library Studies and Marketing.

Emerald Literati Awards for Excellence

For 23 years the Emerald Literati Awards for Excellence have been distributed to recognize and reward the efforts of authors and editors.[16]

Each year, Emerald awards authors of 50 notable papers covered in its database with a "Citation of Excellence Award".[17]

Republication issue

In 2004, extensive covert duplication of articles was found in Emerald/MCB University Press journals, including at least 409 examples of articles from sixty-seven journals that were republished without notification that they were previously published. Emerald undertook its own study and rectified the issue.

See also

References

  1. 1 2 Emerald Publishing Limited - Filing history. companieshouse.gov.uk. Retrieved 21 March 2017.
  2. ↑ "About Emerald: History". Retrieved 3 September 2007.
  3. 1 2 3 4 5 "40 Years in Publishing 1967-2007". Retrieved 3 September 2007.
  4. ↑ "Professor and Mrs Pettman - DARE". dareyou.org.uk. Archived from the original on 7 February 2015.
  5. ↑ "Emerald Group Publishing".
  6. ↑ "Emerald partners with anti-plagiarism database in publishing industry first!". www.emeraldinsight.com. Emerald Group Publishing. Retrieved 5 August 2013.
  7. ↑ "Emerald acquires Elsevier titles - The Bookseller". www.thebookseller.com.
  8. ↑ "£25m growth bid by Emerald (From Bradford Telegraph and Argus)". www.thetelegraphandargus.co.uk.
  9. ↑ "Press release: Kudos announces pilot results, additional clients". Kudos News.
  10. ↑ "Emerald Group Publishing to preserve e-books with Portico". Portico. ITHAKA.
  11. ↑ "Research Information". researchinformation.info. Archived from the original on 14 July 2015.
  12. ↑ "Emerald news". emeraldgrouppublishing.com.
  13. ↑ "Participating Publishers - CLOCKSS". www.clockss.org. Retrieved 15 December 2015.
  14. ↑ "Home - The London Book Fair". www.londonbookfair.co.uk. 1 April 2014.
  15. ↑ LondonBookFairVideo (16 April 2015). "Dr Martyn Lawernce of @EmeraldGlobal live from the show floor..." – via YouTube.
  16. ↑ http://www.emeraldgrouppublishing.com/about/news/story.htm?id=6282
  17. ↑ "Emerald Management Reviews - The Citations of Excellence Top 50 papers". Emerald Group Publishing. Retrieved 6 May 2014.
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