New publisher for 2002

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(2002), "New publisher for 2002", Aslib Proceedings, Vol. 54 No. 1. https://doi.org/10.1108/ap.2002.27654aaa.001

New publisher for 2002

New publisher for 2002

Aslib Proceedings: New Information Perspectives is now published by Emerald.

Emerald is delighted to welcome readers to the first issue of the 2002 volume. Emerald acquired Aslib Proceedings and seven other titles from Aslib, The Association for Information Management in December 2001. With 24 information management titles, Emerald is now the premier world-wide publisher of library and information science journals. The other titles acquired from Aslib are:

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  Aslib Book Guide;

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  Current Awareness Abstracts;

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  Forthcoming International Scientific & Technical Conferences;

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  Journal of Documentation;

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  Online & CD Notes;

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  Performance Measurement and Metrics: The International Journal for Library and Information Services;

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  Program: electronic library and information systems;

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  Records Management Journal.

We are proud to include Aslib Proceedings in our LIS portfolio and are excited about the benefits Emerald can bring now and in the future. As the Editor Professor David Nicholas said:

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  Emerald will enable us to reach a larger, wider, global audience. Aslib Proceedings is an interdisciplinary journal that covers a topic of world-wide interest – information and its various characteristics and facets. It is also a journal full of new, innovative, exciting and fresh thinking. Emerald is perfectly suited for the distribution of such thinking/ideas. We want to build a platform for a new kind of information journal for the new digital age and Emerald will help us do this.

The new ownership brings many access benefits to subscribers, including:

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   Internet online publishing and archiving – in addition to the printed journal your subscription includes Internet access via Emerald Fulltext to information as it becomes available online and to material from past volumes. Using the powerful search engine, users can search the database by author, article title, journal title, keywords and fulltext. Browsing is also available, as well as an advanced search engine.

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   Institution wide licence – our liberal licence allows everyone within your institution to access the journal via the Internet. It has been designed to provide a comprehensive, simple system with minimum administration. Access can be granted by IP range or user name and password.

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   Emerald Alert – provides personal e-mail notification of new articles published online, ensuring that users are kept up to date with the latest research. Emerald Alert includes:

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     TOC (Table of Contents) of any chosen journal;

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     weekly/monthly digests;

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     saved search alert options.

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   Reference linking – direct links from the journal article references to abstracts of the most influential articles cited. Where possible, this link is to the fulltext of the article.

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   Automatic permission to make up to 25 copies of individual articles – for teaching purposes, training courses, meetings and seminars etc. (This only applies to articles of which Emerald/MCB own copyright).

In 2002, Aslib Proceedings will continue to publish articles that report the current research, issues and debates of interest to the information profession. The quality and quantity of the articles will be maintained throughout the volume and in consultation with the Editor issues will now be published six times per year.

Aslib Proceedings is published in association with Aslib, The Association for Information Management. Emerald is working in partnership with Aslib to continue providing its members with journals as a benefit of their membership.

For more information about Emerald, please visit our Web site at: www.emeraldinsight.cominsight.com.