Emerald Full-Text

In the spirit of reduce, reuse, recycle!  Here's an old posting revisited

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:

 That's:
1) Only content I have access to *

2) No EarlyCite
3) No Backfiles


* That should really be "Only content to which I have access" 

Want to win a £100 Amazon voucher?

Technically speaking the title should be "Want a chance to win a £100 Amazon voucher?"  If you do read on...

Emerald Insight - which is a fine resource in its own right - want you to take a “selfie” in the library which they you then post on Facebook, Twitter or Instagram using the phrase “#EmeraldInsight into [your study subject here]”.   Here's a helpful Vine on the topic.  Vines, selfies and hashtags! Where will it end?

Even if you don't want to post a selfie, do consider using Emerald, especially if you're a business or library student.  No login required on-campus.  Off-campus use your Athens account for access.

 

Emerald

We're reorganising how some of our resources are accessed.  Emerald, which is very popular with our business students is available as normal on-campus, but currently if you wish to access it off-campus, the simplest way is through Athens.  Contact the library to have an Athens account created.

Emerald Reading ListAssist

Here's an interesting new service from Emerald.  Reading ListAssist draws together articles from Emerald's journal and book content in over 50 subject-specific reading lists.  I doubt many of you are interested in the engineering reading lists, but you may find some interesting articles in the Business, Management & Economics, Library & Information Science and Social Sciences themed reading lists.  They all have been created by teachers and students for teachers and students, so should be relevant good quality material. 
Each list is presented as an Excel spreadsheet and for most there's an accompanying PDF editorial.  Each list also comes with an abstract giving a brief overview of content and coverage.
There's a caveat, and that caveat is that access to articles within the reading lists will be subject to whether we subscribe to that journal or not.  For DBS, that basically means that if the article is from Emerald Backfiles you won't see it, but you should see most of the non-Backfile material.  Have a look anyway and see what you think.   

Free Journal of the Week from Emerald

Emerald are now offering free access for a week to two of their journals... every week. Their new Journal of the Week feature provides free weekly access to two of Emerald's high quality journals.

Check the list on this page to see which journals will be featured over the coming months. You will be able to access, free of charge, content from the featured journals, for one week only.

Click on the links and you will be taken to the table of contents page where the free issues will be highlighted.

Free Emerald Resource: Research in the News

I've been on holiday (it's great, I recommend holidays) and have lots of emails to catch up on. One such email is from Emerald and tells me about a new free resource: Research in the News Rather than use my own words to obfuscate, here's Emerald's very own description:

This new online resource highlights research that has direct impact or implication in the real world. Featuring a monthly selection of three to four articles/book chapters whose subject area is either very topical and/or groundbreaking, this resource demonstrates the real-world, practical application of Emerald content. Articles and book chapters are freely accessible for a month until they are replaced by the next selection of highly topical content.

Such eloquence! The good thing about this is that it will give you access (for a while) to Emerald material to which we don't subscribe, so hopefully there'll be a decent selection available each month.

Changes to Emerald

The good people at Emerald are making changes to their website. They promise a new, more intuitive and user-friendly design and are taking the opportunity to give the site a fresh new look. The changes have not been implemented yet, but you can see a preview of them at http://beta.emeraldinsight.com. Please note the following - that's a trial site; it's not live - it's a full copy of the Emerald site as it was at the end of March. It will be updated periodically however. Also if you have a personal profile you set up, no changes you make on the beta site will be carried over to the "live" site.
Every page on the beta site has a link to a comments form where you can let Emerald know what you think of the new site

Emerald - change to search parameters

As previously mentioned, searches on Emerald can bring up a lot of results for which no full-text is available. This can be overcome by going into the advanced search options and choosing only to search subscribed content. However, we've decided to change administrative settings so that by default only subscribed content is searched. If you want to search all of Emerald, you can do so by going to the advanced search option and choosing to search all Emerald content. Changing the set-up so that you only see results for which full-text access is available should make your life (and ours!) a little easier.

Emerald ebooks trial

In addition to publishing some journals very popular with DBS students, Emerald have branched into ebooks. For the next four weeks we have access to their two ebook series collections:
Emerald Business, Management and Economics eBook Series Collection contains over 450 volumes from over 60 book series titles. Featuring relevant, international and trusted content in many fields including strategy, economics and accounting and finance. A list of titles can be found here
Emerald Social Sciences eBook Series Collection complements and extends the current Emerald portfolio, adding over 210 volumes from over 35 book series titles. Providing contemporary and high quality research, this collection contributes much to debate in the fields of politics, psychology, sociology, health care and education. Here's the list of titles.

Access is through the Emerald website, in the same way you access Emerald journals. The trial lasts until February 14th. Happy reading!

Graduating this year but still want access to DBS Databases?

If you are a student due to graduate this year but still want access to DBS Library's resources including the Emerald and Business Source Complete databases read on...

DBS library's alumni package now includes access to the Emerald and Business Source Complete databases so you can keep up to date with publications and research in your field of study.

• The basic alumni package which entitles you to use the library after graduation and to borrow up to 3 books costs €75 per year
• The enhanced alumni package which entitles you to the above as well as login access to DBS Library's Emerald and Business Source Complete accounts cost €100 per year

See the Alumni section of the library website for an application form or email library@dbs.ie

Arts students, we havent forgotten about you - if you are interested in us adding Academic Source Complete or other arts and humanities databases to our alumni package please contact the library.

Emerald and lack of full-text

Another popular query that comes up time 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 a subscription to Emerald Management Xtra (don't you just hate that spelling of "Extra"?). If you bothered to click the link above, you'd see it's one of many Emerald products. One of these, Emerald Backfiles, is relatively new, and I think it's being 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 it's abstract only, because DBS do not have a subscription to it.
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. Emerald's marketing has worked to the extent that a DBS subscription to Emerald Backfiles is under consideration for next year

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 quick or advanced search options page, make the sure the options below are checked thus:



This should remove any articles you can't see the full-text of from your search results.