Emerald has highest number of participating sites through Eduserv CHEST

PRLog (Press Release) – Nov 03, 2006 – Eduserv CHEST is a not-for-profit organization, which negotiates agreements between commercial suppliers of electronic resources and education, academic and research communities throughout the UK and in many European locations. CHEST then manages the agreements, using its resultant ‘buying power’ and huge amount of experience for the benefit of all parties. Eduserv has built up a formidable reputation for delivering value for money, customer-driven innovative services to its academic, research and education partners since its foundation as a registered charity in 1988.

The discovery tools or databases which can be provided through CHEST, number over 300, in categories as diverse as Agriculture, Business Management, Engineering, Education and Law. Emerald’s journals, databases, and search tools are currently the largest participants in CHEST, and are the most popular datasets. Emerald currently has 124 datasets available through CHEST, which will increase to over 135 by the end of 2007. These datasets are provided through Emerald Abstracts, Emerald Fulltext, Emerald Management reviews and others.

Bill Russell, Director: Academic Market, from Emerald comments, “Emerald’s continued, successful relationships with innovative, highly respected organisations such as Eduserv reinforce its position as a leading publisher of academic and professional literature. The relationship with Eduserv clearly demonstrates Emerald’s wider strategy of offering highly original, valuable and innovative products to audiences both in the academic and practitioner worlds, whilst ensuring the widest possible dissemination of contributing authors’ work. This exciting news confirms that Emerald is successfully achieving its mission of being the publisher of choice for academics, researchers and professionals in the fields of management, information science and engineering.”

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