Academic publisher Emerald Publishing has launched Emerald Reach, a new open access programme designed to deliver rigorous high-quality open access content, support authors and extend their impact.
Recognising that being open access alone does not necessarily mean content is more discoverable, Emerald Reach works harder on behalf of authors to drive discoverability. The aim of the programme is to ensure the widest possible dissemination of research and maximize its potential to deliver impact.
All open access content will be accessible in a dedicated section of the leading research platform, EmeraldInsight.com, and Emerald Reach will provide additional author services to increase engagement. In addition, enhanced metadata will ensure open access content is comprehensively and accurately indexed in discovery systems.
As a key benefit, Emerald Reach also says 'it's easy being green' by introducing a liberal new green open access policy. Effective from 27 September 2017, Emerald has removed embargoes across all journals, providing authors with the option to make their accepted manuscript openly available, free from payment and embargo periods.
Emerald has been busy expanding its portfolio of open access content, and now publishes more than 20 fully open access journals, including the newly flipped Impact Factor-ranked International Journal of Climate Change Strategies and Management (IJCCSM). They also offer a range of open access options to book authors and their sponsoring bodies across all formats – monographs, handbooks, short form and professional content.
To celebrate the launch of Emerald Reach - and to support their commitment to extend impact within and beyond academia - Emerald will publish 12 special open access issues in support of the UN Sustainable Development Goals over the next year. All costs associated with making the issues open access will be covered by Emerald, with no additional charge to the authors.
Brought to you by Scope e-Knowledge Center, a trusted global partner for digital content transformation solutions - Abstracting & Indexing (A&I), Knowledge Modeling (Taxonomies, Thesauri and Ontologies), and Metadata Enrichment & Entity Extraction.
