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10/09/98 *** Press Release *** MCB University Press and CHEST announce long-term partnership to deliver electronic access to the fulltext of more than 100 MCB journals via Emerald Intelligence + Fulltext MCB University Press (publisher of the Emerald Intelligence + Fulltext Electronic Management database) and CHEST have reached agreement for the provision of Emerald Intelligence + Fulltext to eligible institutions for a fixed five year period starting on 1st January 1999. Institutions can decide to join at any time during the term of the agreement and will be bound until the end of the agreement period. For a fixed annual payment of £8,995 for Higher Education institutions or £1,995 for Further Education institutions, electronic access will be provided to more than 100 MCB journals that make up Emerald Intelligence + Fulltext both on-line and as a CD-ROM database until 31st December 2003. CHEST and MCB University Press are delighted to have negotiated this excellent agreement, which is open to Higher and Further Education in the United Kingdom, the Republic of Ireland and the Netherlands. Nigel Lodge, Director of CHEST, said "This is one of four products from MCB for which CHEST has negotiated terms which are fixed for five years. The products enable the academic community to have electronic access to an additional wealth of specialist fulltext article and abstract information in a number of subject areas. Institutions will be able to provide access to content with full search capability at the desktop." Mathew Wills, Emerald Brand Manager, said "This is a very significant agreement. Emerald Intelligence + Fulltext delivers comprehensive online and CD-ROM access to every article published since 1994 in more than 100 journals from the UK's leading academic management publisher. The combination of MCB University Press's high quality journal content and CHEST's ability to deliver excellent technical solutions and support, long-term price stability and organisation-wide access will give the Higher and Further Education Community in the UK, Ireland and the Netherlands valuable new ways to access management content." Emerald Intelligence + Fulltext delivers desktop access to a world leading library of management research journals. The service provides instant access to more than 20,000 management articles from more than 100 journals with a fulltext archive stretching back to 1994 (with abstracts to 1989). Areas of coverage include: operations and production management, economics, marketing and logistics, training and education, human resource management, library management, property management, information management, quality management and engineering. Further material is added on a monthly basis. Major service features are as follows: * three CD-ROMs per year with fulltext archive (1994 - date); * online database, updated monthly, with full database archive (1994 - date); * discounted hardcopy journals available as an optional extra; and * table of contents by email service. If you would like to know more about Emerald Intelligence + Fulltext or CHEST, please contact: Mark Hindwell Emerald Intelligence + Fulltext MCB University Press 60-62 Toller Lane Bradford West Yorkshire BD8 9BY Tel: 01274 777 700 Fax: 01274 785 201 Email: [log in to unmask] Web: http://www.mcb.co.uk/emerald or Emma Sudds CHEST University of Bath Claverton Down Bath BA2 7AY Tel: 01225 826982 Fax: 01225 826177 Email: [log in to unmask] http://www.chest.ac.uk/datasets/emerald/contents.html --- (This message has been sent to the [log in to unmask] list) %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%