Emerald Publishing Services
Partner with us for support with publishing your open access journal.
Do you have an open access journal you'd like support with?
With over 50 years' experience as a global academic publisher, we have the knowledge and experience to help you elevate your journal. Whether your journal is well-established or brand new, we are here to support you at every stop.
Discover how Emerald Publishing Services benefit our partner journals by browsing these case studies.
What's included in our publishing service?
Partnering with Emerald Publishing Services means your journal will be integrated into our content management system, Emerald Insight. Our in-house creative team will design a front cover for your journal, and it’ll have a dedicated home page on the Emerald website where we’ll feature important information such as scope, author guideline, details about the editorial team and journal news. We’ll also arrange the set-up of your journal’s online ScholarOne manuscripts and deliver training sessions to your editorial team on the ScholarOne system.
As soon as your partnership with Emerald Publishing Services begins, you will receive continuous support from your dedicated Publishing Services Manager, as well as our wider team of experts. You’ll receive monthly updates from your Publishing Services Manager as well as quarterly and annual performance reports to assess the development of your journal.
Your editorial team will receive guidance on research integrity, publication ethics and peer review best practice. We’ll conduct an annual review of your journal where we will assess paper mill and ethical misconduct activities as well as an assessment of peer review and editorial practices. Your journal is in safe-hands - Emerald Publishing is a long-standing member of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE).
As your journal will be open access under a CC BY 4.0 license, it can be read, shared and cited by everyone. To enhance discoverability, your journal will be available on multiple research databases, such as ProQuest and EBSCO, as well as our own international content hosting platform, Emerald Insight. Your Publishing Services Manager will provide advice on indexing applications and in-depth metrics regarding the performance of your journal.
How Emerald Publishing Services benefit your journal
In our latest webinar our Publishing Services Manager, Judy Yeh, talks to Dr Stefan Hartman the co-editor of Journal of Tourism Futures about how using Emerald Publishing Services has increased the journal's global reach and discoverability over the last seven years.
Emerald Publishing Services: step-by-step guide
View our step-by-step guide to learn more about the services we offer to support your journal. From onboarding to promotion, we’ve got you covered.
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1. Meet the Emerald team
Before we get started on publishing your journal, you are introduced to your dedicated Publishing Services Manager (PSM) and content team who will support you throughout the end to end publishing process and the development of the title.
2. Onboarding
Our robust and personal onboarding process allows you to familiarise yourself quickly with Emerald’s workflows, peer review and ethics guidelines, while the journal is getting integrated into Emerald’s content management system and website.
3. Getting your journal ready for submissions
Through a one to one session, we will tailor your journal’s ScholarOne online submission system so that it fits the journal’s editorial structure and workflows. You will be trained on the journal’s submission system, which integrates:
- Web of Science Reviewer Locator
- Publons Reviewer recognition
- iThenticate (plagiarism checking software)
4. Publishing your journal
The journal content is published on Emerald Insight , Emerald’s hosting platform after 20 working days (subject to permissions and proofing stage). The content is specifically typeset, lightly proofread, and enriched through smart metadata tagging for better discoverability. Articles and issues are approved by both the authors and editorial team.
5. Making your journal discoverable
We work with industry partners to make it easy for authors, readers and librarians to access your journal’s content through discovery platforms and full-text indexing. Our partners include Google and Google Scholar, EBSCO and ProQuest in addition to subject-specific abstracting and indexing services, such as RePEc
6. Developing your journal
Your dedicated PSM will bring their expertise to drive growth in submissions, article downloads and citations, and help you prepare the journal for indexing in major citation/indexing databases, such as the Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ), Clarivate Analytics (ESCI, SSCI/SCIE) and Scopus.
7. Broadening the reach of your journal
You will be able to invest in additional services in order to further increase the quality and visibility of your journal, such as marketing activities and advanced sub-editing credits. Upon request, articles receive Altmetric badges to help showcase the wider influence of your journal’s content.
8. Ongoing support & guidance
You will receive ongoing support and advice on different areas of publishing, for instance through drop-in sessions on ScholarOne, through the journal’s membership with the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE), or through valuable journal statistics. This equips you with the tools and expertise needed to strengthen your journal’s position.
Take a look at the journals we’ve published
Our platinum journals are published in partnership with organisations and institutions cover a range of themes.
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