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February 2019

• An HSS Perspective on Plan S
  This is an open letter to all funding agencies, government bodies and institutions that support Plan S. It is written from the perspective of publishers working across the humanities and social sciences (HSS) and will...



• Emerald Publishing becomes first publisher to adopt F1000’s Open Research Publishing model, focusing on social sciences
    Bingley, United Kingdom, 6 February 2019 – Emerald Open Research – the first Open Research Publishing platform for impactful social sciences research – has launched with its first four gateways, which tackle critical world...

December 2018

• Emerald raises £25,000 For Social Mobility Foundation
  Bingley, United Kingdom, 18 December 2018 – We’re pleased to announce that we’ve raised £25,000 for 2018’s chosen charity, the Social Mobility Foundation (SMF). This year, Emerald has committed to focusing its Social Responsibility activities around the UN’s...



• Emerald Open Research is open for submissions!
  Bingley, United Kingdom, 10 December 2018 - We are thrilled to tell you that Emerald Open Research, our new open access platform, is now open for submissions. Created in partnership with F1000, the platform, which is new...



• Free access to 25 years’ worth of impactful Literati Award-winning research
  Bingley, UK, 4 December 2018 - To mark the 25th anniversary of the Literati Awards, we are pleased - for a six-week period from the beginning of December 2018 - to be able to offer free...

November 2018

• Winners of the first ever Real Impact Awards revealed!
  Bingley, UK, 20 November 2018 – We are delighted to be able to reveal the winners of the inaugural Real Impact Awards, which celebrate the commitment to impact by the research community across the globe,...

October 2018

• Emerald publishes first issue of the new Journal of Participation and Employee Ownership (JPEO)
  Bingley, United Kingdom, 30 October 2018 – Emerald is delighted to announce that the recently launched new Journal of Participation and Employee Ownership (JPEO) has had its first issue published: https://www.emeraldinsight.com/toc/jpeo/1/1  Richard Freeman - Co-Editor of JPEO (and Herbert...



• Do We Still Need a Women's Movement? public debate in Leeds to mark centenary of women’s vote
  Leeds, United Kingdom, 25 October 2018 – 100 years on from the passing of the law that allowed women the vote for the first time, a free public event in Leeds city centre on the...



• British Food Journal’s 120th anniversary coincides with World Food Day
  Bingley, UK Tuesday 16 October 2018 - The British Food Journal (BFJ) has chosen World Food Day, 16 October - with its theme of 'Our actions are our Future: a zero hunger world is possible by 2030’ -...

September 2018

• Survey data highlights imbalances in workplace experiences, depending on age, ethnicity, gender, and geographic location
  New York, US and Bingley, UK, 26 September - The Workplace Equity Project (WE) today released “Global Voices for Workplace Equity: Findings from the WE Survey 2018” – an Executive Summary of the full findings of a survey on...



• Emerald acquires Archnet-IJAR: International Journal of Architectural Research
  Bingley, United Kingdom, 18 September 2018 – Emerald has acquired Archnet-IJAR: International Journal of Architectural Research, a journal which includes empirical research papers, analytical case studies, and high-quality position papers that contribute to the advancement...

August 2018

• Emerald joins an interdisciplinary research collaboration to facilitate inclusive research environments
  Bingley, United Kingdom, 9 August 2018 – An interdisciplinary research collaboration which includes Emerald Publishing as a project partner has been awarded over half a million pounds of funding by the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC)...



• Emerald joins the RNIB Bookshare Scheme
  Bingley, United Kingdom, 1 August 2018 – Emerald has recently joined The Royal National Institute of Blind People (RNIB) Bookshare service to provide print-disabled students within UK institutions, with the same educational opportunities as their peers.The RNIB Bookshare service...

July 2018

• Emerald launches a new open research publishing platform - Emerald Open Research - in partnership with F1000
  Bingley, United Kingdom, 19 July 2018 - Emerald has become the first publisher to partner with the open research service provider F1000, starting Emerald’s own open research publishing platform – Emerald Open Research – using the technology, infrastructure and editorial...



• Crowdhelix and Emerald partner to support impactful research
  Bingley, United Kingdom - 16 July 2018 - Crowdhelix, the Open Innovation network for research organisations and businesses, and Emerald Publishing have partnered to support impactful research. Previously known as Vision2020 and now relaunched as Crowdhelix,...



• Emerald announces winners of 25th annual Literati Awards for Excellence
  Bingley, United Kingdom, 3 July 2018 – For the past 25 years, Emerald Publishing has rewarded outstanding and impactful contributions to scholarly research via the prestigious Emerald Literati Awards for Excellence.The Awards for Excellence is still one...

June 2018

• Emerald achieves best ever Impact Factor results
  Bingley, United Kingdom, 27 June 2018 – Emerald is proud to have achieved its best ever Impact Factor results, as it continues to celebrate research impact in all its forms.   Highlights in the data...



• Emerald and EFMD celebrate the winners of this year’s Outstanding Doctoral Research Awards
  Bingley, United Kingdom, 20 June 2018 – Emerald Publishing is proud to again celebrate the winners of the Emerald/EFMD Outstanding Doctoral Research Awards (ODRAs).As in previous years, Emerald has collaborated with the EFMD – an international network...

May 2018

• Emerald Publishing organizes academic panel examining the relationship between education and racial justice
  Boston: May 9, 2018 – On Thursday, May 17th from 6-7:30pm at Northeastern Crossing (1175 Tremont St, Boston, MA 02120), Emerald Publishing will host a free educational panel titled “Advocacy in Academia: How can...

April 2018

• Emerald is bronze sponsor of the Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ)
  Bingley, United Kingdom, 05 April 2018 – In keeping with our commitment to extend the real world impact of high quality scholarly research, Emerald Publishing is pleased to be a bronze sponsor of the Directory of Open Access...

March 2018

• Dr Julie Bayley and Emerald partnership to help strengthen ‘impact literacy’ in the academic community
  Bingley, United Kingdom, 29 March 2018 – We’re pleased to announce a new partnership with Dr Julie Bayley – incoming Director of Research Impact Development (University of Lincoln), champion of the ARMA Impact Special Interest...



• Phill Jones joins Emerald as Chief Technology Officer
  Bingley, United Kingdom, 22 March 2018 – Emerald has appointed Dr Phill Jones, formerly Director of Publishing Innovation at Digital Science, to its Board as Chief Technology Officer (CTO).Phill will take a strategic lead on...



• The Beyster Foundation for Enterprise Development launch annual award programme
  Bingley, United Kingdom, 23 March 2018 – Emerald Publishing, along with The Beyster Foundation for Enterprise Development(BFED) - a development to support research, education and services that advance innovation, entrepreneurship and broad-based ownership, is pleased to announce the...



• Huge gains for Emerald Publishing in new Chartered ABS journal list
  Bingley, United Kingdom, 15 March 2018 – Emerald Publishing’s high quality business and management journals programme has been recognized by the UK’s Chartered Association of Business Schools (Chartered ABS), with an additional 41 titles included...



• Emerald humbled to win ProQuest IPG 2018 Academic and Professional Publisher of the Year Award
  Bingley, United Kingdom, 9 March 2018 – We are delighted and humbled to have won Academic & Professional Publisher of the Year at the 2018 IPG Independent Publishing Awards.Launched in 2007 and run by the...



• Empowering women in the 21st century
  Bingley, United Kingdom, 7 March 2018 – This year, International Women’s Day is calling for gender parity – an initiative at the heart of Emerald Publishing’s culture.  In support of this, we have launched the ‘Empowering women...

February 2018

• We would urge Mrs May's government not to undermine the social sciences
  Bingley, UK, 20 February 2018 - While we will always welcome the removal of barriers to quality education and support the introduction of initiatives that reduce inequality, we are disappointed that the UK government’s new...



• The Century of Science wins much-coveted PROSE Award
  Bingley, United Kingdom, 19 February 2018 – The Century of Science: The Global Triumph of the Research University edited by Justin J. W. Powell David P. Baker and Frank Fernandez has won a much-coveted PROSE...



• Eminent new team to edit the Information and Learning Science Journal
  Bingley, United Kingdom, 27 February 2018 - With effect from Volume 120, the re-launched Emerald Publishing Journal - Information and Learning Science - will be co-edited by two leading scholars in this inter-disciplinary domain, Dr Samuel Kai Wah Chu...



• Emerald launches new Engineering, Computing & Technology portfolio
  Bingley, UK, 12 February 2018 – For the first time, Emerald Publishing has created an opportunity for customers to take all of the available journals that are aligned to the Engineering, Computing and Technology (ECT)...



• Emerald celebrates 7th Annual High Usage Awards
  Bingley, United Kingdom, 7 February 2018 – Emerald Publishing have released the winners of the 7th annual Emerald High Usage Awards, listing the 20 global academic institutions that have received the highest number of eJournal...

January 2018

• Emerald author awarded best paper accolades
  Bingley, United Kingdom, 16 January 2018 – Emerald Publishing authors Dr Daniel Schlagwein and Katherine Choy have been awarded two Best Paper awards for their research ‘Crowdsourcing for a Better World: On the relation between...



• Emerald announces changes to executive leadership team
  Bingley, United Kingdom, 10 January 2018 – Emerald Publishing, the leading publisher of management and social sciences research established in 1967, has appointed Vicky Williams as its new CEO.Richard Bevan, who has been CEO of Emerald Group (incorporating...

December 2017

• Emerald smashes target in raising over £61,000 for Heart Research UK in 2017
  Bingley, United Kingdom, 19 December 2017 – Emerald Group began 2017 by publicly committing to raising £50,000 for Heart Research UK (HRUK), and ends the year by announcing it has smashed that target, raising £61,901.24....



• BEPAM only the third journal in the world to be conferred prestigious ‘CIB recognised’ status
  Bingley, United Kingdom, 18 December 2017 – Emerald’s Built Environment Project and Asset Management (BEPAM) has become only the third journal in the world to be recognized by International Council for Research and Innovation in Building and...

November 2017

• New research commissioned by Emerald highlights the gain for us all if academia and practice can overcome barriers to collaboration
  Bingley, United Kingdom, 22 November 2017 – Emerald Publishing today launches a provocative new whitepaper and 'Real World Impact' campaign calling for funders, business schools and research communities to tackle the 'structural disincentives' that continue to hamper...



• Emerald journal collection available on ScienceOpen
  Bingley, United Kingdom, 13 November 2017 – One of Emerald’s top journals, Advances in Autism, is now a featured journal on ScienceOpen, along with three other journals integrated into the latter’s citation network: The Journal...

October 2017

• Emerald joins Kudos initiative for managing and tracking author sharing via scholarly collaboration networks
  Bingley, United Kingdom, 11 October 2017 - Emerald Publishing has become the latest partner to join Kudos's shareable PDF program, which helps publishers prevent copyright infringement and reclaim lost usage from sharing of research articles...



• Journal marks 10th anniversary with special launch at the House of Commons
  Bingley, United Kingdom, 9 October 2017 – The International Journal of Human Rights in Healthcare (IJHRH) will mark its 10th anniversary with the launch of a special issue on the topic of ‘Physical and Mental Health...

September 2017

• Harriet Bell to speak on 'The Future of Scholarly Publishing'
  The National Association of Post Graduate and Research in Administration are holding their conference from 1 – 4 October in Sao Paulo, Brazil.  This year, Global Marketing Director for Emerald Publishing, Harriet Bell will be speaking...



• Emerald's new open access programme, Emerald Reach, helps authors extend impact
  Bingley, UK, 27 September 2017 – Emerald Publishing is proud to launch Emerald Reach – its new open access programme designed to deliver rigorous high-quality open access content, support authors and extend their impact.Recognizing that being open...



• Eminent economist team to edit new Emerald journal, The Journal of Participation and Employee Ownership
  Bingley, United Kingdom, 19 September 2017 – In what is a coup for Emerald Publishing, the newly launched Journal of Participation and Employee Ownership (JPEO) will be edited by Richard B. Freeman, holder of the...



• Support for our global communities in light of recent natural disasters
  Our global communities of authors, editors, librarians and reviewers are at the heart of everything we do at Emerald. We would like to offer our thoughts and support at this difficult time to those communities, institutions...



• Emerald Publishing sponsors Peer Review Week 2017
  Bingley, United Kingdom, 11 September 2017 - Emerald Publishing is pleased to be a co-organizer and sponsor of Peer Review Week 2017, 11-17 September, with its theme of ‘Transparency’.Peer Review Week is a global event celebrating the essential...



• Emerald acquires three new journals
  Bingley, UK, 06 September 2017 – Emerald Publishing has acquired the list of three journals from US-based publisher PrAcademics Press for 2018 publication.The three journals are:o Journal of Public Budgeting, Accounting & Financial Management (JPBAFM)o Journal of...

August 2017

• Prof Greg Marshall appointed Editor of European Journal of Marketing
  Bingley, United Kingdom, 23 August 2017 –  Emerald is pleased to announce the appointment of Professor Greg W. Marshall, Charles Harwood Professor of Marketing and Strategy, Crummer Graduate School of Business USA as the new...



• Emerald signs up to Center for Open Science Transparency and Openness Promotion (TOP) Guidelines
  Bingley, United Kingdom, 17 August 2017 – Emerald Publishing has become a signatory to Transparency and Openness Promotion (TOP) Guidelines, a framework supported by the Center for Open Science (COS) that increases the reproducibility of...



• Emerald among first to join Open Discovery Initiative
  Bingley, United Kingdom, 10 August 2017 – Emerald Publishing has become one of the first academic publishers to release a set of checklists detailing what it is doing to make the content it publishes easier to find.The NISO...



• Chinese Management Studies journal going from strength-to-strength
  Academy of Management Annual Meeting, Atlanta, GA, USA, 4-8 August 2017 – Hangzhou Dianzi University (HDU) is celebrating a year since it began successfully partnering with Emerald Publishing to publish the well-renowned international journal Chinese Management...

July 2017

• Climate change title to become first Emerald subscription journal to flip to exclusively Open Access
  Bingley, United Kingdom, 17 July 2017 – Emerald Publishing has announced the conversion of the Impact Factor-ranked International Journal of Climate Change Strategies and Management (IJCCSM) to a fully Open Access (OA) journal.IJCCSM will be...



• Take Care: How to be a great employer for working carers
  Bingley, United Kingdom, 10 July 2017 – With statistics showing that in the UK one in nine employees are caring for a loved one at the same time as trying to hold down a job,...



• Emerald signs up to Initiative for Open Citations (I4OC)
  Bingley, United Kingdom, 4 July 2017 – Emerald Publishing has signed up to the Initiative for Open Citations (I4OC), a collaboration between scholarly publishers, researchers and other interested parties to promote the unrestricted availability of scholarly...

June 2017

• Emerald launches New challenger Case Study product
  Bingley, United Kingdom, 21 June 2017 – Emerald Publishing has launched Emerald eCase Collection, a new challenger case studies product designed to improve the business school learning experience.eCase Collection provides institutions with unlimited access to a growing digital...



• Emerald Publishing delivers best ever Impact Factor results
  Bingley, United Kingdom, 14 June 2017 - Emerald Publishing has received its best ever Impact Factor results in the data release of the 2016 Journal Citation Reports (JCR) from Clarivate Analytics, with overall citations up...



• Emerald titles increase strong CiteScore position
  Bingley, United Kingdom, 1 June 2017 – The first full release of the CiteScore metric for 2016 from Scopus has seen Emerald increase the quality measures for over 57% of its journals, on a like-for-like...

May 2017

• Emerald takes on greatest charity challenge yet to raise £50k for Heart Research UK
  Bingley, United Kingdom, 12 May 2017 –  Emerald Group staff will be tackling the Yorkshire Three Peaks challenge on 19 May in an effort to raise £50,000 for Heart Research UK (HRUK).The £50,000 will go towards helping...

April 2017

• Winners of the Emerald/EFMD 2016 Outstanding Doctoral Research Awards announced
  Bingley, United Kingdom, 19 April 2017 –  Emerald Publishing and EFMD are proud to announce the winners of the 2016 Emerald/EFMD Outstanding Doctorial Research Awards (ODRA), now in their 12th consecutive year.For the 2016 awards scheme, applicants that...



• New Emerald partner database in EBSCO Discovery Service™
  Bingley, United Kingdom 12 April 2017 - Emerald Publishing is pleased to have partnered with EBSCO Information Services (EBSCO) on developing the new database, EDS Emerald Insight which will enhance the discovery of Emerald content within EBSCO Discovery Service™...

March 2017

• Search for Earth-like planets wins Guardian ‘Research Impact’ award, sponsored by Emerald
  A research project that captured the public’s imagination by announcing the discovery of the nearest potentially habitable planet to Earth has won the Guardian University Awards 2017 ‘Research Impact’ category, sponsored by Emerald Publishing.Pale Red...



• Celebrating two years of Emerald Publishing Services
  Bingley, United Kingdom, 20 March 2017 – Since the launch of Emerald Publishing Services (EPS) - a third party publishing program for research dissemination - two years ago, 16 agreements have been signed with a range of...



• Emerald’s workplace diversity and inclusivity initiative proves a success in its first year
  Bingley, United Kingdom, 14 March 2017 – Emerald Group strongly believes that a diverse workforce leads to better decisions and improved organizational performance.  With this in mind, a workplace gender diversity and inclusivity initiative known as Stride was launched...



• Emerald Publishing launches exciting new titles for World Book Day
  Bingley, United Kingdom/Boston, MA, USA, 2 March 2017 – World Book Day this year coincides with Emerald Publishing - which is celebrating its 50th year in 2017 - announcing a number of new book titles,...

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