Emerald Digitizing its Backfiles

[Chris Olson <chris@chrisolson.com>]

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Chris Olson

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Emerald Group Publishing Limited is currently digitizing the full 
archive of its journal titles in the areas of business, 
management, library and information services, materials science, 
and engineering. Working with the British Library, more than 
50,000 articles from over 120 journals are to be processed into 
PDF format and made available electronically for the first time. 
Called Emerald Backfiles, the electronic archive is due for 
release in early 2008.

Emerald Group Publishing initiated the digitization project as 
part of its 40th anniversary commemoration activities. The 
British Library, with its vast journal collections, will be 
responsible for the digitization program as well as helping 
Emerald locate elusive paper copies that are not held at the BL.

Emerald Backfiles will provide business and management scholars 
and social historians electronic access to materials which 
hitherto now, only existed in print. Because the papers are being 
processed into PDF format, the contents of each article will be 
fully searchable, making Emerald Backfiles a robust resource for 
researchers.

Emerald Backfiles will include articles from such seminal 
publications such as British Food Journal, European Journal of 
Marketing and Journal of Documentation. Further information can 
be found at http://ww2.emeraldinsight.com/backfiles or via email 
to backfiles@emeraldinsight.com

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