Emerald - Scheduled maintenance taking place on Tuesday

Please note upcoming maintenance on Emerald’s research platform, Emerald Insight,  which is scheduled to take place on Tuesday 7 June 2016, beginning at 08:00 GMT -  lasting for up to 12 hours. During this time, the site will be placed into ‘read-only’ mode, making the following  functionality unavailable for the duration of the upgrade:

Activating access tokens Adding publications as favourites Alert subscriptions Any changes to ‘My Account’ and ‘Institutional Account’ E-commerce Registration Search

Should you access the website during this time, you will receive a notification that the  site functionality is temporary unavailable within your browser. Please note that this may  also affect some functionality on emeraldgrouppublishing.com. This essential website maintenance is part of Emerald’s customer focused development  initiative, which aims to deliver an enhanced user experience to customers. Many thanks for your patience and continued support. Andrew Basnett-Rix Chief Technology Officer

Emerald functionality - Tuesday 22nd March

There is maintenance on Emerald’s research platform, Emerald Insight, scheduled to take place on Tuesday 22 March 2016, beginning at 08:00 GMT - lasting for up to 12 hours. During this time, the site will be placed into ‘read-only’ mode, making the following functionality unavailable for the duration of the upgrade:

Activating access tokens Adding publications as favourites Alert subscriptions Any changes to ‘My Account’ and ‘Institutional Account’ E-commerce Registration Search

Should you access the website during this time, you will receive a notification that the site functionality is temporary unavailable within your browser. Please note that this may also affect some functionality on emeraldgrouppublishing.com.

Emerald Insight - top 20 journals being accessed in 2014

Emerald Insight is a global publisher containing the highest quality, peer-reviewed journals in the management field.  Aston University Library provides you with access to 111 of these titles in the areas of business, management, accounting, finance, information management, HR, organisational learning, marketing, logistics and engineering journals.

The top 20 journal titles currently being accessing by Aston University staff and students are:

1. Journal of Quality in Maintenance Engineering
2. On the Horizon
3. Leadership & Organization Development Journal
4. Journal of Small Business and Enterprise Development
5. Journal of Health Organization and Management
6. European Journal of Training and Development
7. International Journal of Bank Marketing
8. Campus-Wide Information Systems
9. Sensor Review
10. Employee Relations: The International Journal 
11. Balance Sheet
12. International Journal of Public Sector Management
13. Journal of Service Management
14. Engineering, Construction and Architectural Management
15. Journal of Educational Administration
16. International Journal of Clothing Science and Technology
17. Program: electronic library and information systems
18. Internet Research
19. Journal of Documentation
20. Sustainability Accounting, Management and Policy Journal

The Emerald Insight collection provides research articles covering a wide range of disciplines taught at Aston University and over a 100 of our academics have published in these journals.  You can  also read our very own Information Assistant Alison Lobo's article on "Measuring the quality, value and impact of academic libraries: the role of external standards"

Access Emerald Insight via our subject LibGuides and choosing the Journals tab

Emerald off-campus

The intermittent problems with searching Emerald off-campus should have been resolved now. If you continue to have problems, please either add a comment to this blog post or contact lis-enquiries@aston.ac.uk.

Problems logging in to electronic resources off-campus?

In the majority of cases, you should only need your Aston University network username and password (the same one you use to log on to PCs on campus and your email) to log in to electronic databases and journals. Very few resources require a separate username and password and a list of these with login details can be found in the Electronic Resources section of Library Matters on Blackboard.

For instructions on logging in to each database, go to Aston e-Library, search for the database in the Find Resource section and follow the instructions given in the "i" information icon next to each resource. For example, the instructions for accessing Science Direct read "For off-campus access click on Athens/Other Institution login; select UK Access Management Federation; then Aston University; enter your Aston University network username and password." Each database follows a slightly different access route.

You can also find instructions for logging on to each e-journal using Find e-Journal, searching for the journal you need and clicking on its title. Alternatively, if you are having problems logging into any specific resources, please add a comment to this post and we’ll give you instructions.