Emerald eBook Collections discoverability
checklist
The purpose of this document is to outline our product strategy for driving content discovery and
usage. This is seen as a living, working document to support internal discussions, roadmap project
planning, and customer communications.
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Metadata
Library / Indexing Partnerships
Open-web Program
Customer Recommendations
Product overview
Emerald’s eBook Collections are annual selections of our business, management, and other social
science monographs (in both purchase and subscription models). 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 Emerald eBook Collections are made available in a variety of
bibliographic and fulltext 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).
Emerald’s eBook Collections utilize the following persistent identifiers:
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DOIs are deposited with CrossRef for all book titles and individual chapters
ISBNs are assigned to all book titles
ISSNs are assigned to all book series
Metadata formats available to customers and partners for the eBook Collections:
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KBART Records: http://www.emeraldgrouppublishing.com/support/index.htm
MARC Records: http://www.emeraldgrouppublishing.com/marc/index.htm
Library / Indexing partnerships
In addition to the metadata noted above, fulltext data for Emerald eBook Collections are supplied to a
range of suppliers for library resource discovery and institutional search and access tools.
Library discovery services & knowledgebases
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ProQuest / Serials Solutions
o 360 Core
o Summon
EBSCO
o EBSCO Knowledge Base
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o EDS
OCLC
o OCLC Knowledgebase
o WorldCat Discovery
Ex Libris
o SFX
o Primo Central
o Alma
Subject / A&I databases, document delivery providers, and more
Emerald eBook Collections are 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
The Emerald eBook Collections are designed 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
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Google & Google Scholar
Yahoo
Bing
Social media
Information about Emerald eBook Collections can also be found via:
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Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/emeraldresearcherprogram/
Twitter: @Emerald_Books
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company-beta/34137/
Library Customer Recommendations
Emerald eBook Collections participate 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 setup guidelines, coming in 2017.
Where there are concerns about inclusion of Emerald eBook collections 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 eBook Collections within customer libraries:
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Ensure Emerald eBook Collections are 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
The Emerald Text & Data Mining policy