Emerald eCases Collection discoverability
checklist
The purpose of this document is to outline our product strategy for driving content discovery and
usage. This is a living, working document to support internal discussions, roadmap project planning,
and customer communications. Please see date stamp below for versioning information.
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Metadata
Library / Indexing Partnerships
Open-web Program
Customer Recommendations
Product overview
The eCases Collection is an annual selection of serial case available for institutional subscription. The
eCases Collection is made up of two proprietary journals – Emerging Market Case Studies & The
CASE Journal – in addition to 3rd party collections of case studies. This document outlines our current
participation in library discovery and usage. Additional information can be found in the Emerald
Support Services.
Metadata
Standards-compliant metadata for the eCases Collection are made available in a variety of
bibliographic and full-text formats to customers and intermediaries, in order to enable content indexing
and discovery across a variety of information channels (see partnerships and open-web below for
more detail).
The eCases Collection utilizes the following persistent identifiers:
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DOIs are deposited with CrossRef for all individual cases
ISSNs are assigned to the cases collection and individual case publications, as outlined in the
table below
eCases sub-collection
Emerging Marketing Case Studies
ISSN
2045-0621
Ownership
proprietary
The CASE Journal
1544-9106
proprietary
Darden Business Publishing Cases
2474-7890
licensed
Kellogg School of Management Cases
2474-6568
licensed
Metadata formats available to customers and partners for the eCases Collection:
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MARC Records: http://www.emeraldgrouppublishing.com/marc/index.htm
KBART Records: http://www.emeraldgrouppublishing.com/support/index.htm
Library / Indexing partnerships
In addition to the metadata noted above, the eCases Collection will be included in key library
discovery systems and authentication system.
Library knowledgebases
The eCases Collection and all its component publications WILL BE included in the following
knowledgebases and link resolver services to libraries (release dates TBD):
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ProQuest / Serials Solutions
o 360 Core
EBSCO
o EBSCO Knowledge Base
OCLC
o OCLC Knowledgebase
Ex Libris
o SFX
Library discovery services
The proprietary portions of the eCases Collection – Emerging Marketing Case Studies and The CASE
Journal – WILL BE included to the following “web-scale” library discovery services for fulltext search
indexing:
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ProQuest / Serials Solutions
o Summon
EBSCO
o EDS
OCLC
o WorldCat Discovery
Ex Libris
o Primo Central
Subject / A&I databases, document delivery providers, and more
The proprietary portions of the eCases Collection – Emerging Marketing Case Studies and The CASE
Journal – are also included in the following research tools:
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Pay-per-view services, such as DeepDyve
Researcher tools, such as Meta
Open-web Program
Emerald Case Studies aims to adhere to global internet standards, in order to ensure visibility and
accessibility via search engines, social media, and other mainstream researcher services.
Search engine indexing
 Google
 Yahoo
 Bing
Library Customer Recommendations
As noted above, eCases participates in all major services which provide discovery, access control,
and administration to higher educational and institutional libraries. In addition, we are working with
these providers to offer configuration and set-up guidelines, coming in 2017.
Where there are concerns about eCases inclusion in any library service, please refer to details above.
We are also working to share highlights of the above via public customer help pages.
In addition, we would like to recommend the following best practices for discovery and usage of
Emerald case studies within customer libraries:
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Include eCases in their OPACs (via MARC records)
Ensure eCases is set up correctly in library discovery and knowledgebase services
Add OpenURL and proxy server locations to account in Literatum admin tool
Activate Google Scholar library services