Journals now forming part of SAePublications

Enterprise Risk is now part of the SAePublications journal collections from the June 2007 issue to present.

Scope of the publication :

Enterprise Risk provides essential information to executive management to assist in identifying and measuring risk.

This magazine bridges the divide between the risk manager and the boardroom to enable informed decisions preventing or insuring against enterprise exposure.

Publication details :
11 issues per year

The newest issue is Jan/Feb 2008:
1.Sugar and spice and all things nice : editor's note Authors: Van Reenen, Retha; Pages: 3

2.Corporate investment : is it worth the risk? Authors: Van Reenen, Retha Pages: 4-5, 7-9

3. Evaluating the next 5 years : internal auditing Pages: 10-11

4. Beware, risk ahead : insurance matters Authors: Van Reenen, Retha Pages: 12-13, 15-17

5. In the fine print : insurance matters Authors: Terrazas, Monique Pages: 18-19 Notes: Due to a large file size, this article (pdf) may take a while to download.

6. Business law in SA : how are we faring internationally? : legislation risk Authors: Van Reenen, Retha Pages: 20-23

7. Employment contract pitfalls : legal update Authors: Venter, A.J Pages: 24-25

8. Keep it rolling : business continuity Pages: 28-29

9. Estate duty implications for investors : investment column Authors: Goodall, Brian; Pages: 30-31, 33, 35

10. Unfolding the future : economic risk Authors: Terraraz, Monique

11.Investigating the USB flash drive : information technology Authors: Mudeliar, Thumeshni; Pages: 40-41, 43

12.Under the spotlight : disaster risk strategies : disaster management Authors: Terraraz, Monique Pages: 44-45

13.A cableless existence : case study Pages: 46-47

14.Improving on our successes : president's message Authors: Haman, Reginald Pages: 48 15.Fighting HIV / Aids internally : editor's comment Authors: Van Reenen, Retha Pages: 3 16.Risk absorption by medical aids : HIV / AIDS Authors: Van Reenen, RethaPages: 4-7

17.A reputable reputation : reputation risk Authors: Van Reenen, Retha Pages: 8-9

18.Can SA business combat HIV / AIDS? : business insight Authors: O'Sullivan, Steven Pages: 10-13

19.The ombudsman : your partner in need : insurance matters Authors: Van Reenen, Retha Pages: 14-17

20.Plotting your way through HIV / AIDS : business continuity Authors: Van Reenen, Retha Pages: 18-19, 21
21. Stay in business by adapting a learning culture Authors: Geyser, Yolande Pages: 22-23 22.How to manage outsourced resources effectively : cost-effective outsourcing Authors: Geyser, Yolande Pages: 24-25, 27

23.How to screen your directors : corporate governance Authors: Van Reenen, Retha Pages: 28-31

24.Edifying morality : corporate governance Authors: Furter, Edmond Pages: 32-35 25.HIV/AIDS battle strategy : corporate governance Authors: Furter, Edmund Pages: 37

26.In the dark : Eskom vs. Ekurhuleni : legal update Authors: Terrazas, MoniquePages: 38-40 27.Duties everywhere : legal update Authors: Vivian, Robert W. Pages: 42-45

28. A dog's breakfast : Royal Canin : case study on reputation risk Authors: Terrazas, Monique; Pages: 46-47

29. President's message : governance, ethics and risk Authors: Winks, Steve, Pages: 48

The Journal of Transport & Supply Chain Management also forms part of the SAePublications journal collection.

Scope of the publication :
The Journal of Transport and Supply Chain Management seeks to disseminate research results and to support high level learning, teaching and research in the areas of traffic and transportation (operations, policy, planning),customer service, warehousing, inventory management, procurement, packaging, materials handling, reverse logistics, demand forecasting, distribution communications and information technology.

Publication details :
1 issue per year

At the moment Volume 1(1) is available:

1.Editorial Authors: Kujawa, Beverley;Pages: i
2.Integrated supply chain risk management Authors: Bredell, Riaan; Walters, Jackie; Pages: 1-17
3. Supplier integration in product development : a matter of designing the project structure Authors: Danilovic, Mike; Pages: 18-37
4. A supply chain model for the South African recording industry Authors: De Wit, P.W.C.; Steyn, M.M Pages: 38-48
5.Impediments to the structural development of South African maritime supply chains Authors: Fourie, Yolanda; Pages: 49-64
6. The entrenchment strategy of logistics service providers : towards a sequential cooperation-competition process? Authors: Pache, Gilles; Medina, Pablo; Pages: 65-78

Sabinet Full Open Access Journal Collection

Welcome to the beta version of Sabinet's Full Open Access Journal Collection.

The collection currently comprises 44 South African journals and provides immediate access to the PDF versions of 6 000+ full-text articles.

The journals are individually searchable. The coverage per journal varies, with some journals having full-text issues available from 2000onwards.

Of the journals in the collection, 14 appear on the Approved South African Journals list, the ISI list, or the IBSS list. These include: Meditari, SAJIM and the South African Business Review.

New journal titles and issues are added to the collection on an ongoing basis.

Some journals also contain metadata records (including abstracts) for older articles where full text is not available.

Publishers who would like to make their journals available as Open Access journals, are welcome to contact Sabinet.

New Issue: Management Today

The new issue of Management Today is available via SAePublications:

1. The current economic situation : not all bad news Authors: Havenga, Richard
2. Power struggles and power supplies - time to take stock Authors: Westcott, Martin
3. The South African economy : will it survive 'the perfect storm?' Authors: Parsons, Raymond
4. The new innovation challenge Authors: Gibson, Rowan
5. Innovation to the Core
6. The future of management : innovation, the ultimate advantage Authors: Hamel, Gary
7. Winnovation : innovation to the core Authors: Gibson, Rowan
8. The future of quality Authors: Thabethe, Elizabeth
9. The power of quality teams Authors: Mallinson, Wayne
10. Partnering that creates quality schools Authors: Madison, Linda

11 Dr Joseph Juran 1904 - 2008 : obituary
12. Quality training courses

13.Hats off

14. Cyril Ramaphosa gets Leadership in Practice award from Unisa Authors: Havenga, Richard
15. Black diamonds : the new South African middle class Authors: Simpson, John; Dore
16. World renowned finance experts to visit South Africa
17. The challenge of leading strategic change Authors: Black, Stewart; Gregersen, Hal B

18.A strange solution to improve the productivity of knowledge workers Authors: Cloete, Gerrit

19. Retaining corporate memory Authors: Scheepbouwer, Marc
20. Talent management for turbulent times to be discussed
21. Corporate fraud : notice the red flags Authors: Botha, Carnel
22. Integrate marketing and operations for bottomline results Authors: Wright, Frances
23. Wireless communication : facilitating financial transactions Authors: Van Rooyen, Leunis
24. SMEs as job creators a global myth, says visiting researcher

Fastest Growing websites in SA

According to NielsonOnline Engineering News was the fastest growing website in South Africa over the last year, growing by 190% from 23,455 Unique Browsers in March 2007 to 67,924 in March 2008
The overall market has grown by 44% in the same period, 3.4 million to 4.9 million UBs
Creamer Media produces three of the four fastest growing sites – Engineering News, Mining Weekly and Polity

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According to Nielsen Online, the fastest growing websites in SA (for the period March 2007-March 2008) are:

1. Engineering Week
2. Mining Weekly
3. Carte Blanche
4. Polity
5. Mineweb
6. SuperSport
7. Sunday World
8. Sowetan
9. The Post
10. SuperSchools

Most Popular websites in SA
News24 remains the most popular South African website with over 1.1 million Unique Browsers in March 2008.
Of the 10 most popular websites with comparable data last year only SuperSport (103%) and Yellow Pages (51%) have a growth rate above overall market growth (44%).

The Most Popular websites in SA (for the period March 2008) are:

1. News24
2. Msn
3. Mweb
4. Webmail
5. Hotmail
6. iol
7. 24.com
8. CareerJunction
9. SuperSport
10. Yellow Page

New RefWorks features just released!

RefWorks has just released three new features:

1. Write-N-Cite III for Windows with Offline Capabilities
This means that you can not use W-N-C without being connected to the internet. Simply download your RefWorks database from within Write-N-Cite while online, then feel free to disconnect from the Internet.

Full Write-N-Cite functionality is available – inserting temporary citation placeholders, viewing reference information, using the citation editor – even formatting your paper in the output style you choose.

Download the new Write-N-Cite III for Windows from within your RefWorks account by selecting Tools, Write-N-Cite.

2. Write-N-Cite v2.5 for Mac
This Write-N-Cite for Mac version 2.5 works with Microsoft Word 2008 for Mac and the Leopard operating system and has the same features as the current Write-N-Cite for Mac (citation editing, two document format, etc.).

Download the new version from within your RefWorks account by selecting Tools, Write-N-Cite.

3. Attachment Feature
Now it’s even easier to store your research documents along with your references! RefWorks has made it’s attachment feature available to all users at UJ and each user receive 100 MB of default storage space each.
You can attach any type of file – the only requirement is that you have the software necessary to view the attachment.

For information on how to attach files to references, see the online help section Adding References Manually or review the RefWorks Basics tutorial section Entering References Manually.

New Books!

I've emailed you all the list of the newest books I've received for each department.

Due the large amount of new books I have received in the last few weeks, I will keep them at my desk only until Friday 9 May, where after they will be shelved.

If you would like to have a look at some of the books, please let me know and I will keep them for you at my desk.

Springer - New Books

New Print Book Releases Business / Management Science (general)

Information, Organization and Management Picot, Arnold; Reichwald, Ralf; Wigand, Rolf T.978-3-540-71394-4

Managing Global Innovation Boutellier, Roman; Gassmann, Oliver; Zedtwitz, Maximilian von978-3-540-25441-6
Lean Brain Management Dueck, Gunter978-3-540-71837-6

Higher Education News

Highlights of The Chronicle include:

Research & Books

PUBLIC RELATIONS FOR PEER REVIEW
The National Institutes of Health considers changing its policies to entice more senior scholars to evaluate grant applications.
TALES OF WESTERN ADVENTURE
The rigid standards of hiring and tenure are all that stand in the way of humanities professors as thriving public scholars.
PEER REVIEW: The Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study gets a permanent leader ... The University of California at Irvine's engineering school hires a climate expert as its new dean ... Bruce Shepard is the new president of Western Washington University ... A new chancellor steps in at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst.

HACKING BACK
College students learn real-life lessons in Internet security when they go up against hackers in the National Collegiate Cyber Defense Competition.

GOLD MINES OF INFORMATION
Vast education databases maintained by states can yield invaluable data, say education researchers, but concerns about privacy limit their development and use.
LINKED IN WITH: Kelly Sutton, a founder of a student-run blog about improving lives through technology.

WHERE THE MONEY GOES: Students are paying a growing share of higher-education costs, but institutions are spending less money on them in the classroom, a report says.
MOUNTAINS OF BLAME: Two administrators from West Virginia University have stepped down in the wake of a transcript scandal, but the president's job seems secure.
WHAT THEY THINK: Most college financial officers expect tuition increases to continue outpacing inflation.

Times Higher Education

Clocking on
Fee-paying students want more teaching contact hours for their money. But do the bald figures on how often they see their tutor tell the whole story?

Journals test software to catch cheats
Academic articles will, like student essays, be checked for plagiarism. Universities across the UK monitor students' work using Turnitin, a program that assesses the originality of assignments.
Now a new program based on the same technology is being developed to apply similar high-tech scrutiny to research papers.

Engaging with students’ spirituality
Students’ religious convictions need not hinder the learning environment; treated respectfully and inclusively, their presence may enhance the experience for all

On Leave

I will be on leave from the 25th of April to the 5th of May.

Enjoy the long weekend(s)!

Open Science Directory: new Open Access Initiative

EBSCO has recently joined forces with Hasselt University Library, Belgium, and the International Oceanographic Data and Information Exchange programme of the Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission of UNESCO to develop a global Open Science Directory which is available via the Internet at no charge.

The Open Science Directory provides developing regions with a comprehensive search tool for all open access and special programme journal titles.

The Open Science Directory offers immediate access to approximately 13,000 scientific journal titles, with an objective of 20,000 titles midway through development.
Access to scientific literature is very important for the scientific work in developing countries. As a result of different projects a large collection of e-journals is now available for researchers in developing countries. The number of Open Access Journals is growing steadily as we can see in the Directory of Open Access Journals. The Open Science Directory is creating a unique access point to all the journals contained in the different programs.

Searching Options:
From the home page, click on Open Science Directory . The Portal is an A-to-Z journals list (like UJ's A-to-Z list)

You can either search directly for specific journals

OR

* Select - Journal Collections
to view all Providers of the Journals, with links to the title lists
* Select - Subjects
to view the journals per specific subject area
* Select - Search
to view the Advanced search screen
* Select - Custom Google Search
to search either Scholar Google (academic articles) or Google Custom Search (Search in: DOAJ - OpenDOAR - HINARI - OARE - AGORA - INASP - eJDS - Ingenta Connect)
* Select - Links
to have access to journals portals, useful websites to different organisations
* Select - About the Site
to view more information about this site

Once you access the journal of interest, there is an option to search within this journal for articles.

New FREE database(s) from Ebsco

Everybody likes to get something for free and here at the Library we're no exception! That's why we're excited about Ebsco's free databases that are available

GreenFILE offers well-researched but accessible information covering all aspects of human impact on the environment. Its collection of scholarly, government and general-interest titles include content on the environmental effects of individuals, corporations and local/national governments, and what can be done on each level to minimize negative impact.

Topics include global warming, green building, pollution, sustainable agriculture, renewable energy, recycling, and more.

GreenFILE is multidisciplinary by nature and draws on the connections between the environment and a variety of disciplines such as agriculture, education, law, health and technology.

I've done a quick search for: wildlife management and found 5,000+ articles.

Library, Information Science & Technology Abstract (LISTA)

Topics includes online information retrieval, information management and more. Coverage in the database extends back as far as the mid-1960s. It is EBSCO Publishing’s intention to provide access to LISTA on a continual basis at www.libraryresearch.com. Customers currently subscribing to other EBSCOhost databases may elect to have LISTA added to their EBSCOhost profile.

Teacher Reference Center

This index of over 260 titles from the most popular teacher and administrator trade journals, periodicals, and books.

Topics include key education issues such as Assessment, Continuing Education, Current Pedagogical Research, Curriculum Development, Instructional Media, Language Arts, Literacy Standards, Science & Mathematics, and more for K-12 Teachers & Librarians.

This free database features:

• Index browse functionality


• Indexing and abstracts for more than 260 periodicals


• Indexing for 1,300 book chapters


• 96% of the journals indexed in TRC are peer-reviewed

New Copyright Blog @ UJ

Our copyright officer - Thapelo Mashishi - has just launched his new UJ Copyright Blog .

The blog will provide UJ academic staff with copyright & IP information as it relates to the University and educational environment in general.

You can already find links here to:

• Conference alerts
• Creative Commons
• Creative Commons South Africa
• IFLANET
• Open Review of the SA Copyright Act
• Science Commons

New feature of blog

Introducing Snap Shots from Snap.com
I just installed a nice little tool on this site called Snap Shots that enhances links with visual previews of the destination site, interactive excerpts of Wikipedia articles, MySpace profiles, IMDb profiles and Amazon products, display inline videos, RSS, MP3s, photos, stock charts and more.
Sometimes Snap Shots bring you the information you need, without your having to leave the site, while other times it lets you "look ahead," before deciding if you want to follow a link or not.

Should you decide this is not for you, just click the Options icon in the upper right corner of the Snap Shot and click on opt-out.

New interface for JSTOR

JSTOR has recently revamped their interface, added new features and updated existing ones.

New features:
MyJSTOR

"MyJSTOR" is the first step in providing greater personal customization for users throughout the site. With this first release, users can:

• manage citations over time by saving them to a MyJSTOR account, where they can be stored indefinitely.
• Users will need to create an account in order to save or send citations, as well as to save them to bibliographic software. Remember this if you use RefWorks
• accept JSTOR's Terms and Conditions of Use once, rather than being prompted to respond with each article print or download

See also: Tutorials, MyJSTOR Help

Searching JSTOR

Basic Search

Basic searches, which search the full-text of all journals, can be entered directly from the home page by authorized users. Basic searches can be limited by discipline.

Advanced Search

Searches can be limited by selecting discipline(s) or specific journal titles, or by directly entering a specific title into the form. Proximity search is now available in the Advanced Search form, using NEAR 5, NEAR 10, NEAR 25 operators in the Boolean pull-down menus.

Basic and Advanced Searches

Searches from an individual session are saved, and they can be rerun from a drop down menu at the bottom of each of these search forms. Users are able to search for both the singular and plural versions of a word by adding an ampersand (&) to the end of the singular form of the word. Plurals now identify both regular (cat/cats) and irregular (knife/knives) plural forms. Users have the option to apply stemming to their search by appending the "#" character at the end of their search term, e.g., "operate#". The "Images in JSTOR" and "Images in ARTstor" tabs appear in the results from all search forms.
Search Results

The "search within these results" feature allows users to run a new search that restricts the content being searched to the results of their most recent search. See: Searching Help

Article Page Viewing

Thumbnail images of articles make it easier to see articles at a glance and to select pages within articles.

Simplified Printing and Viewing of Article PDF Files

JSTOR now offers articles in a single, improved format of PDF for printing. The PDF versions of articles provide bookmarks for easier navigation, both throughout the article as well as the entire issue. NOTE: JPRINT, the printing application created specifically for printing JSTOR files, is no longer available or supported. See: Printing Help

Top 25 Hottest Articles - ScienceDirect

Business, Management & Accounting

October - December 2007

Every 3 months ScienceDirect distributes a list of the Top 25 Hottest articles published with in a specific subject area. Here is the newest list available for Business, Management & Accounting for the time period: Oct - Dec 2007.

Asymmetric stock market volatility and the cyclical behavior of expected returns • Article Journal of Financial Economics, Volume 86, Issue 2, 1 November 2007, Pages 446-478 Mele, A.

Productivity-based asset pricing: Theory and evidence • Article Journal of Financial Economics, Volume 86, Issue 2, 1 November 2007, Pages 405-445 Balvers, R.J.; Huang, D.

Technology acceptance model for internet banking: an invariance analysis • Article Information & Management, Volume 42, Issue 2, 1 January 2005, Pages 373-386 Lai, V.S.; Li, H.

Responsive supply chain: A competitive strategy in a networked economy • Article Omega, Volume 36, Issue 4, 1 August 2008, Pages 549-564 Gunasekaran, A.; Lai, K.-h.; Edwin Cheng, T.C.

A strategy for third-party logistics systems: A case analysis using the blue ocean strategy • Article Omega, Volume 36, Issue 4, 1 August 2008, Pages 522-534 Kim, C.; Yang, K.H.; Kim, J.

Network design for reverse logistics • Article Omega, Volume 36, Issue 4, 1 August 2008, Pages 535-548 Srivastava, S.K.

The use of information systems for logistics and supply chain management in South East Europe: Current status and future direction • Article Omega, Volume 36, Issue 4, 1 August 2008, Pages 592-599 Ketikidis, P.H.; Koh, S.C.L.; Dimitriadis, N.; Gunasekaran, A.; Kehajova, M.

Motivating knowledge sharing through a knowledge management system • Article Omega, Volume 36, Issue 1, 1 February 2008, Pages 131-146 King, W.R.; Marks, P.V.

Manufacturing strategies and financial performance-The effect of advanced information technology: CAD/CAM systems • Article Omega, Volume 36, Issue 1, 1 February 2008, Pages 107-121 Theodorou, P.; Florou, G.

Effects of knowledge management strategy on organizational performance: A complementarity theory-based approach • Article Omega, Volume 36, Issue 2, 1 April 2008, Pages 235-251 Choi, B.; Poon, S.K.; Davis, J.G.

The illusion of knowledge: When more information reduces accuracy and increases confidence • Article Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes Hall, C.C.; Ariss, L.; Todorov, A.

Firm-level correlates of emergent green supply chain management practices in the Chinese context • Article Omega, Volume 36, Issue 4, 1 August 2008, Pages 577-591 Zhu, Q.; Sarkis, J.; Cordeiro, J.J.; Lai, K.-H.

The role of management control systems in planned organizational change: An analysis of two organizations • Article Accounting, Organizations and Society, Volume 32, Issue 7-8, 1 October 2007, Pages 601-637 Chenhall, R.H.; Euske, K.J.

The value of human resource management for organizational performance • Article Business Horizons, Volume 50, Issue 6, 1 November 2007, Pages 503-511 Liu, Y.; Combs, J.G.; Ketchen, D.J.; Ireland, R.D.

Market efficiency, long-term returns, and behavioral finance • Article Journal of Financial Economics, Volume 49, Issue 3, 1 September 1998, Pages 283-306 Fama, E.F.

Trust in management and knowledge sharing: The mediating effects of fear and knowledge documentation • Article Omega, Volume 36, Issue 2, 1 April 2008, Pages 206-220 Renzl, B.

The theory and practice of corporate finance: evidence from the field • Article Journal of Financial Economics, Volume 60, Issue 2-3, 1 May 2001, Pages 187-243 Graham, J.R.; Harvey, C.R.

Corporate social reporting and stakeholder accountability: The missing link • Article Accounting, Organizations and Society, Volume 32, Issue 7-8, 1 October 2007, Pages 649-667 Cooper, S.M.; Owen, D.L.

Information asymmetry, corporate disclosure, and the capital markets: A review of the empirical disclosure literature • Article Journal of Accounting and Economics, Volume 31, Issue 1-3, 1 September 2001, Pages 405-440 Healy, P.M.; Palepu, K.G.

The influence of organizational identification on organizational knowledge management (KM) • Article Omega, Volume 36, Issue 2, 1 April 2008, Pages 221-234 Ravishankar, M.N.; Pan, S.L.

An integrated multi-objective decision-making process for multi-period lot-sizing with supplier selection • Article Omega, Volume 36, Issue 4, 1 August 2008, Pages 509-521Ustun, O.; Demirtas, E.A.

Inbound tourism policies in Japan from 1859 to 2003 • Article Annals of Tourism Research, Volume 32, Issue 4, 1 October 2005, Pages 1100-1120 Soshiroda, A.

IMPACT OF AN ECONOMIC CRISIS Evidence from Turkey • Article Annals of Tourism Research, Volume 32, Issue 4, 1 October 2005, Pages 942-961 Okumus, F.; Karamustafa, K.

Customer relationship management in retailing: A content analysis of retail trade journals • Article Journal of Retailing and Consumer Services, Volume 14, Issue 6, 1 November 2007, Pages 394-399 Anderson, J.L.; Jolly, L.D.; Fairhurst, A.E.

Sustainable supply chains: An introduction • Article Journal of Operations Management, Volume 25, Issue 6, 1 November 2007, Pages 1075-1082 Linton, J.D.; Klassen, R.; Jayaraman, V.

Thank you

Thank you to everyone attending the Emerald Author Workshop yesterday - I hope that it will serve as inspiration and stimulus for your own publishing career.

Welcome back!

Welcome back to you all - I trust that you have a restful recess and that the new semester will hold great promise!

Emerald Author Guidelines

Emerald offers a series of Author Guidelines (similar to the ones I've distributed at the Author Workshop on Monday 7th April) available online offering practical tips and guidance on how to get your work published and maximize dissemination from Emerald, the world's leading publisher of management research..

It is available to Emerald subscribers. To subscribe please register on the Emerald website once you've entered it via the Library's databases.

Here is what to expect as well as the links to the guidelines:

How to... write a case study
A case study involves focusing on a set of issues in some contemporary setting, usually but not exclusively an organization, or perhaps a department or sector of an organization. It may use just one case or a number of cases linked together by a theme. Because of its real-world setting, it is a powerful tool of analysis, and one that obviously chimes in with Emerald's concern to disseminate implications for practice. It is particularly good at addressing "how" and "why" questions.

How to... write for a practitioner audience
If you are an academic, then you have good job-related reasons to want to publish: your job and your promotion depends upon your keeping up your publishing profile in quality scholarly journals. If you are a practising manager, however, writing for publication is not part of your job and can seem much less important than keeping up with your targets and the inevitable fire-fighting. This guide aims to explain the benefits of publishing to practising managers and to give advice on how to publish successfully.

How to... write a literature review
A literature review is a description of the literature relevant to a particular field or topic. It gives an overview of what has been said, who the key writers are, what are the prevailing theories and hypotheses, what questions are being asked, and what methods and methodologies are appropriate and useful. As such, it is not in itself primary research, but rather it reports on other findings.

How to... find the right journal
Finding the right journal is as important to the publishing process as is having something original to say and saying it well. Many journal editors claim that a good proportion of their rejections happen not because manuscripts are of insufficient quality, but because they are inappropriate for the journal's objectives. As ever, it is easier (and usually leads to a more successful outcome) if you address these issues as early as possible.

How to... write an abstract
An abstract is a succinct summary of a longer piece of work, usually academic in nature, which is published in isolation from the main text and should therefore stand on its own and be understandable without reference to the longer piece. It should report the latter's essential facts, and should not exaggerate or contain material that is not there. Its purpose is to act as a reference tool (for example in a library abstracting service) and, more importantly, to enable the reader to decide whether or not to read the full text. It is your opportunity to gain readership and citation.

How to... use the Harvard reference system
The Harvard reference system, also known as the author-date system, is Emerald's approved system of citing other works. Articles submitted to Emerald are required to use this system. This guide explains how and where to use references within the text of your article and how to compile the reference list at the end. We also look at some of the software tools that are available to simplify these tasks.

How to... structure your article
According to one survey on why articles fail to get published in economics journals, there are two main reasons. Either the paper does not make, or does not demonstrate that it makes, a contribution to knowledge or the paper is badly organized, with the parts not fitting together to form a coherent whole. These two factors, which rated more highly in this survey than targeting the wrong journal, both relate to the paper's structure. Papers that are well structured will have a logical organization with a beginning, a middle and an end, and above all a sense of purpose which communicates itself to the reader, will motivate him or her to continue reading in the belief that the author is making a contribution to knowledge.

How to... write more simply
Reviewers of academic papers often point out that the language is unnecessarily obscure and obtuse. The reviewer or editor feels there is a good point in there somewhere, but it is not easy for the reader to find. In contrast, good English is economical and spares redundant words. In Lost for Words: The Use and Abuse of the English Language, John Humphrys describes the qualities of good English: "... clear, simple, plain and unambiguous ... free of jargon, although there will be exceptions. It should be easy to read and listen to rather than a chore. At the very least it should not make our tongues fur up". This guide provides suggestions on how you can make sure your style is as clear as possible.

How to... prepare papers if English is not your first language
Preparing and writing an academic article for publication in an English language journal is a daunting experience for anyone, but particularly so if your first language is not English. This guide gives you some support with preparing articles in a non-native tongue. It is not possible to give specific advice about English, because teaching English as a foreign language is a highly specialized area requiring a great deal of skill. However, we will provide general advice on writing articles and list some useful resources including editing services.

How to... proofread your work
As far as writing an article for publication is concerned, we are talking about authors proofreading before it goes to production. In many ways, it is more like copy-editing, which is about close attention to the detail of the script, reading at sentence level to make sure there is nothing that can detract from accuracy and clarity, be it errors of grammar, inconsistency, spelling, or punctuation. "If a paper is not carefully checked, then it looks not just sloppy, but as though the author does not care. So why should anyone else?" (John Peters, Emerald CEO and editor of Management Decision).

How to... survive peer review and revise your paper
What gives being published in a journal especial credibility is that other experts have read the work and deemed it acceptable. The peer review process is therefore what gives the journal in which you have chosen to place your article, and your paper if you have done the necessary revisions, a quality control stamp. This guide offers advice on minimizing the chances of having to revise your work by getting it right in the first place, to a practical example of carrying out your own peer review.

How to... collaborate on writing an article
Many Emerald articles result from collaboration. Reasons for this include the: increasing importance of publication for tenure, promotion and satisfying the UK Research Assessment Exercise; tendency towards large, multidisciplinary projects; nature of research funding; pressure for PhD students to get out publications even before their PhD is approved; and greater ease afforded by electronic means of communication. This guide focuses on authorship and dissemination issues arising from collaborative research (issues concerning setting up a large research project team are covered in our Research Zone). This guide is based on the experiences of several authors from three continents.

How to... promote your work
A good promotions strategy will increase the impact of your work by getting more people to read your article, improving your citation ratings, and ensuring that your work becomes more widely known both within your academic and practitioner community and outside it. It will also help disseminate the practical and policy-related implications of your work to those who can implement it. This guide concentrates on strategies that will help you and your colleagues make your articles, as well as the wider research on which they are based, better known. If you are working as part of a research centre or larger research programme with major funding, then you will need to talk to your partners and your funding body about developing a proper communications strategy.

How to... write a book review
Book reviews are a special form of academic writing. They have well-known structures with familiar components. Here, James Hartley of the School of Psychology, Keele University, UK, consults with academics on writing the perfect book review and presents a potential checklist for book reviewers.