Authors' Charter
Emerald – the international publisher of choice for researchers and practitioners
Emerald's mission is to be the international publisher of choice for researchers and practitioners in management, business, library sciences, engineering and related fields. We will do so by adding value throughout the publication process and investing in new technologies to increase dissemination of knowledge. We aim always to work in partnership with our contributing authors and promote their best interests.
Copyright principles
Emerald Group Publishing Limited seeks to retain copyright of the articles it publishes, without the author giving up their rights to use their own material. Authors are not required to seek Emerald's permission to re-use their own work. As an author with Emerald you can use your paper in part or in full, including figures and tables if you want to do so in a book, in another article written for us or another publisher, on your website, or any other use, without asking us first. We believe that this copyright policy benefits our authors by ensuring that we can:
- Develop our electronic publications and their delivery to meet customer needs and create maximum dissemination of authors' work.
- Protect authors' moral rights and their work from plagiarism, unlawful copying and any other infringement of copyright.
- Recoup copyright fees from reproduction rights organizations to reinvest in new initiatives and author/user services, such as the Research Fund Awards and the Outstanding Doctoral Research Awards.
- Provide an efficient service for permissions.
Our responsibility to you
Emerald takes its responsibilities to both its existing and potential authors very seriously. Every effort is made to provide the service that most fully meets your publishing requirements for:
- Quality journals
- Peer review, where stated
- Editorial excellence
- Due respect and credit for your work
- Global readership for your work.
Your rights as an author
Emerald believes that as an author you have the right to expect your publisher to deliver:
- An efficient and courteous publishing service at all times
- Prompt acknowledgement of correspondence and manuscripts received at Emerald
- Prompt notification of publication details
- A high professional standard of accuracy and clarity of presentation
- A complimentary journal issue in which your article appeared plus article reprints
- A premium service for permission and reprint requests.
Your moral rights as an author
Emerald represents and protects moral rights as follows:
- to be acknowledged as the author of your work and receive due respect and credit for it
- to be able to object to derogatory treatment of your work
- not to have your work plagiarized by others.
The Emerald Literati Network
The Emerald Literati Network is a unique service for authors which provides an international network of scholars and practitioners who write for our publications. Membership is a free and unique service for authors. It provides:
- A dedicated area of the Emerald website for authors
- Resources and support in publishing your research
- Free registration of yourself and your work, and access to the details of potential research partners in Emerald Research Connections
- The opportunity to post and receive relevant calls for papers
- Information on publishing developments
- Awards for outstanding scholarship
- Usage information on authors, themes, titles and regions
- Access to tips and tools on how to promote your work further.
Awards for Excellence
The Emerald Literati Network's renowned annual Awards for Excellence for the most outstanding papers published during the preceding year encourages editorial excellence and scholarship by public acknowledgement and reward of the effort, commitment to quality and high standards of the authors and editors who publish with us.
Wide dissemination
Emerald invests considerable time and resources to ensure that your work reaches an international audience and is published to a high standard of excellence, in both print and electronic format.
- Our journals are included in widely used citation indices, abstracting services and subscription agents' electronic access services
- We provide electronic access and search facilities to subscribers in the Emerald database, ensuring that your work is available to all our customers 24 hours a day
- We achieve wide dissemination of authors' work beyond distribution via subscription through licensing to reputable third parties.
While seeking to maximize dissemination of articles, Emerald is committed to providing readers with the correct attributions to papers:
- We will not under any circumstances republish papers without attribution in Emerald journals
- We would only republish with attribution with the written agreement of the Director responsible for editorial policy.
Promoting your rights
Assigning copyright of your work to Emerald allows us to act on your behalf to:
- promote your rights
- facilitate dissemination of your work by granting permissions for educational use or republication
- target other Emerald journals whose readership would benefit from access to your work
- endeavour to protect your work from any infringement of your rights which are brought to our attention.
It does NOT, in any way, restrict your right or academic freedom to contribute to the wider distribution and readership of your work. This includes the right to:
- Distribute photocopies of your own version of your article to students and colleagues for teaching/educational purposes within your university or externally. Please note, this does not refer to the Emerald branded, published version.
- Reproduce your own version of your article, including peer review/editorial changes, in another journal, as content in a book of which you are the author, in a thesis, dissertation or in any other record of study, in print or electronic format as required by your university or for your own career development.
- Deposit an electronic copy of your own final version of your article, pre- or post-print, on your own or institutional website. The electronic copy cannot be deposited at the stage of acceptance by the Editor.
Authors are requested to cite the original publication source of their work and link to the published version – but are NOT required to seek Emerald's permission with regard to the personal re-use of their work as described above. Emerald never charges its authors for re-use of any of their own published works. Emerald does not allow systematic archiving of works by third parties into an institutional or subject repository. Nor does it allow deposit or systematic archiving for commercial sites or repositories. Authors wishing to upload their article into a repository, who are unsure about whether it commercial in nature, please email permissions@emeraldinsight.com for advice.
In addition, the Premium Permissions Service for Emerald authors entitles you to make up to 25 photocopies of any single article published in an Emerald journal (to which Emerald holds the copyright) to assist your teaching, provided they are not for resale.
To assist us in publishing your work
In order to provide faster and more accurate processing of your manuscripts through the editorial, review and publishing process, we ask that you:
- Carefully read the author guidelines of the journal to which you submit your work
- Carefully check for spelling, grammar and syntax
- Ensure that your references are carefully and accurately cited in Harvard style (name, date)
- Ensure that the work is original and free from copyright encumbrances
- Promptly address any revisions as specified by editors and reviewers
- Submit your manuscript in the format specified by the editor or in the author guidelines
- Complete, sign and return the Journal Article Record (JAR) form and include any authorization for the inclusion of copyright materials in your article
- Keep us informed of any change in your contact details and areas of interest.
May 2008
To discuss any aspect of this Charter please contact:
Emerald Literati Network,
Emerald Group Publishing Limited, Howard House, Wagon Lane, Bingley, BD16 1WA, United Kingdom
Telephone +44 (0)1274 777700
E-mail: literatinetwork@emeraldinsight.com