Tuesday 8 March 2011

Emerald takes over Social Sciences publisher


Emerald Publishing has just announced its’ takeover of Pier Professional, a UK based publisher of Health and Social Care journals, thereby adding 23 new journals to its social sciences section. These journals will gradually be added to the Emerald platform and will be accessible through the library’s subscription to Emerald Management Xtra. In the meantime they can be accessed immediately from http://www.pierprofessional.metapress.com.
Some of the journals may be of interest to the School of Media and also to Management staff and students. These include:

International Journal of Leadership in Public Services
Journal of Aggression, Conflict and Peace Research.
Ethnicity and Inequalities in Health and Social Care
International Journal of Migration, Health and Social Care.