1967 country of origin united kingdom headquarters location bingley west yorkshire england key people dr keith howard ; chairman richard bevan ; ceo publication types academic journals books book series nonfiction topics management business social sciences library studies education health & social care engineering and more number of employees 400 official website www.emeraldgrouppublishing.com emerald group publishing limited is a scholarly publisher of academic journals and books in the fields of management business education library studies health care and engineering . it was founded in the united kingdom in 1967 and has its headquarters in bingley . the company manages a portfolio of more than 290 journals and over 2650 books and book series volumes . it operates worldwide with offices and associates in australia brazil china the czech republic dubai india indonesia japan lithuania malaysia mexico singapore south africa south korea turkey and the united states . the company is based in howard house on the outskirts of bingley west yorkshire . contents 1 history 2 products 3 emerald literati awards for excellence 4 republication issue 5 see also 6 references 7 external links history edit emerald was formed in 1967 as management consultants bradford mcb by a group of academics dissatisfied by the publishing outlets of the time . 1 it acquired its first journal management decision originally the british journal of management the following year for 1 . 2 one of the co founders barrie pettman served as its chairman . 3 fifty academics from the university of bradford management centre each paid 100 for a share in the company in 1969 to allow the company to buy a building on keighley road bradford west yorkshire . the first employee was hired in 1970 . 2 individual journals were managed as separate companies and mcb became a service company for the journal companies . in 1977 the individual journal companies were merged into one company mcb publications ltd. 2 by 1981 the company had grown to 20 employees and was publishing 15 journals . from 1982 through 1997 the company was the official publisher for an independent action learning business school international management centres . the year also saw the acquisition of anbar which later became emerald reviews . in 1984 company expansion resulted in a move to new premises on toller lane bradford . 4 by 1990 it was publishing 65 journals . 2 mcb was renamed emerald in 2001 . 2 in 1992 floppy anbar cd rom was launched . this was accompanied by literati a database and network of authors and editors . in 1994 the company began publishing some of its journals as the electronic management research library database emerald on cd rom . emerald fulltext journals became available in 1995 rebranded as emerald management xtra in 2004 . emerald launched the managementfirst website in 2000 it later became emerald managementfirst in 2007 aimed at corporate customers . by 2002 there were 153 employees and 1.5 m article downloads . in 2006 emerald announced a partnership with iparadigms the developers of the turnitin anti plagiarism detection product . 5 in 2007 emerald acquired a programme of management and social science book serials series and monographs from elsevier . 6 the acquisition of health and social care publisher pier professional limited took place in 2011 . 7 in 2014 emerald was one of several publishers to sign a deal to partner with kudos a service that helps increase the impact of published articles . 8 in quarter 3 of 2014 emerald insight was transferred to atypon s literatum platform . in 2015 emerald began preserving its e books with portico . emerald has been preserving its e journals with portico since 2009 . 9 in june 2015 the emerald acquisition of goodpractice was announced . goodpractice is a provider of support tools for leaders and senior managers . 10 in july 2015 emerald announced a green open access zero month embargo trial . 11 emerald partnered with clockss archive in 2015 to preserve ejournals and ebooks . 12 at the london book fair 2015 emerald publisher dr. martyn lawrence featured in the programme as a speaker in the session do you really need a phd to work in scholarly publishing the insiders guide to getting ahead in your career . 13 14 products edit emerald ejournals includes over 120 000 articles from nearly 290 journals . the ejournal product is a cross disciplinary journal database including peer reviewed international research in both established and emerging areas of interest . emerald s portfolio also contains over 2 650 books and book series volumes in specialist fields such as business & management education engineering library studies and marketing . emerald literati awards for excellence edit for 23 years the emerald literati awards for excellence have been distributed to recognize and reward the efforts of authors and editors . 15 each year emerald awards authors of 50 notable papers covered in its database with a citation of excellence award . 16 republication issue edit in 2004 extensive covert duplication of articles was found in emerald mcb university press journals including at least 409 examples of articles from sixty seven journals that were republished without notification that they were previously published . emerald undertook its own study and rectified the issue . see also edit program electronic library and information systems references edit about emerald history . retrieved 3 september 2007 . dead link a b c d e 40 years in publishing 1967 2007 . retrieved 3 september 2007 . professor and mrs pettman dare . dareyou.org.uk . http en.academic.ru dic.nsf enwiki 7220486 emerald partners with anti plagiarism database in publishing industry first . www.emeraldinsight.com . emerald group publishing . retrieved 5 august 2013 . http www.thebookseller.com news emerald acquires elsevier titles http www.thetelegraphandargus.co.uk business 8915496 . print press release kudos announces pilot results additional clients . kudos news . emerald group publishing to preserve e books with portico . portico . ithaka . research information . researchinformation.info . dead link emerald news . emeraldgrouppublishing.com . participating publishers clockss . www.clockss.org . retrieved 15 december 2015 . http www.londonbookfair.co.uk en contributors 570481 martyn lawrence https www.youtube.com watch v nbopwmedmrk http www.emeraldgrouppublishing.com about news story.htm id 6282 emerald management reviews the citations of excellence top 50 papers . emerald group publishing . retrieved 6 may 2014 . external links edit official website retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title emerald group publishing & oldid 738658557 categories publishing companies established in 1967companies based in bradfordpublishing companies of the united kingdombook publishing companies of the united kingdomacademic publishing companiescommercial digital libraries1967 establishments in the united 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