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Emerald has a range of products and services available to purchase or on subscription. Contact us to find out more or get in touch with your global representative.

Book purchase information

• Print: Direct purchases
• Print: Trade customers
• Standing orders
• Emerald eBook Series Collections
• Electronic: eBook aggregators
• Electronic: Pay Per View

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Features of an Emerald subscription

Printed issues

Subscriptions for most of our journals are entered on a calendar year basis, starting with the first issue of the current year and expiring in December; issues already published will be sent on receipt of payment.

Internet issues

The majority of our journals are available online as they appear in print, and contain the following features.

• Institution-wide licence – our academic institution-wide licence offers unrestricted, concurrent multi-user access, on campus and remotely.
• Structured abstracts – provide consistent, clear and informative signposting to the journal and database content.
• Key reading – abstracts of related articles chosen by the journal editor, selected to provide readers with current awareness of interesting articles from other publications in the field.
• E-mail alert service – these services allow you to be kept up to date with the latest additions to the journal via e-mail.
• Connections – an open-access web based research forum, where you can showcase your research activities and find collaborative partners.
• Reference linking – direct links from the journal article references to abstracts of the most influential articles cited. Where possible, this link is to the full text of the article.
• Forward reference linking – direct links to other abstracts and articles that have cited this article.

Non-article features

• Industry perspectives – these invited papers from leading thinkers in industry illustrate the key issues affecting business today
• Book reviews – giving further insight into texts available in the subject area.
• Suggested reading – bringing together the best book reviews published by Emerald.
• Interviews – with some of the leading minds in the field.

Emerald resources and collections

• Emerald for Authors
• Emerald for Librarians
• Emerald Research Zone
• Emerald Teaching and Learning Zones
• 1,000 case studies
• Literature and book reviews
• Emerald Reading ListAssist