A question that gets asked again and again goes something like this:
"When I search on Emerald I always get lots of articles coming up that are abstract only. Why can't I see the full-text?"
Here's the answer:
Emerald is not a single database; it's a collection of different products all gathered together and searchable via the Emerald website. We have access to Emerald Management Xtra. If you click the link above, you'd see it's one of many Emerald products. One of these, Emerald Backfiles, is promoted by Emerald. This promotion takes the form of appearing at the top of your search results. Being there, the Backfiles articles are likely to be the first articles that you click on...leading to some frustration and irritation when you see that they're abstract only, because DBS do not have a subscription to them.
Before you contact the library, consider the fact that these articles all date from at the most recent, the early to mid 1990s. It is entirely possible that there are more recent articles on your subject that appear further down the list of your search results.
Alternatively, you can remove all articles from Emerald Backfiles, and indeed removed all non-DBS subscribed content from your searches by amending some search options. On the advanced search options page, make the sure the options below are checked thus:
1) Only content I have access to *
2) No EarlyCite
3) No Backfiles
* That should really be "Only content to which I have access"
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