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Emerald Digitizing its Backfiles



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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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