Staying in touch with the business leaders of the future who have graduated from your university is an 
important challenge for any business school.
Your graduates are brand ambassadors for your school, providing referrals, signing up for further study, and making donations. Providing valuable alumni services must be towards the top of any business school dean’s agenda.
What is Emerald for Alumni?
Emerald can offer a value-added, turn-key service for your alumni, which is simple to administer and maintenance-free. As the world’s leading publisher of management research, Emerald will bring your graduates access to our online research library of management journals and books, featuring your school name.
Emerald for Alumni helps you stay close to your graduates, and fulfill lifelong learning aims. Any Emerald customer institution can bring our vast library of ‘research you can use’ to your graduates, wherever they are in the world.
Emerald for Alumni provides:
- A range of standard and customized services, all featuring your university’s name and/or logo.
- Access to our exclusive professional social network service, Emerald InTouch, allowing your staff and graduates to interact in online communities of practice
- Alumni can continue to gain access to Emerald journals and books in your library – as if they were still studying with you
- The facility to feed news and messages to graduates using Web 2.0 ‘push’ technologies – with no IT involvement or overhead
- Access to our library of reviews, interviews, case studies and management briefings for your graduates – all featuring your school’s name
- Your university name and service will be extended out into every workplace in which your graduates operate – a matchless marketing opportunity
How does Emerald for Alumni work?
- Graduates have a single login to Emerald inTouch, our state-of-the-art professional social network platform
- Emerald InTouch, customized with your university's name/logo and welcome messages, allows graduates to communicate with each other and with your school
- InTouch acts as an authenticated gateway into Emerald holdings, mirroring your current library holdings. It's like your graduates were still studying with you, and able to continue to learn and research out in their workplaces
- Our exclusive and unique library of abstracts, summaries, interviews and case studies provides manager-friendly information as well as an in-depth library of up to 120,000 research papers
- Emerald for Alumni can be completely private to you and your graduates, or messaging, blogging and similar services can be extended to a wider community.
No administrative overhead
Emerald alumni services require virtually no administration, will place no load on your IT departments, and are guaranteed to be simple and reliable for your alumni to access online.
Emerald for Alumni can be operated by your library or alumni office, under our user-friendly license arrangement, on payment terms to suit you.
Who should subscribe?
A number of the world’s leading business schools, including the UK Open University, the University of Phoenix, Leeds Metropolitan University and Cranfield University, already take Emerald for alumni.
You can join them, by contacting an Emerald representative on +44(0)1274 785280 or e-mail alumni@emeraldinsight.com