EMERALD. Access Emerald from Athens and log in using the logins you have been allocated.

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1 HOW TO USE THE DATABASES EMERALD Read How to devise a search strategy before using this guide. Emerald contains articles from 113 peer-reviewed journals on management topics, including a number specifically on hospitality and tourism management. It also offers case studies and chapters from books published by Emerald. KEYWORD SEARCH Access Emerald from Athens and log in using the logins you have been allocated. Click on Advanced search in the left column under Search for, to go to the advanced search screen. It is easier to formulate a complex search using this screen. Use the Search help feature at the top right side of the screen, to discover the search tricks supported by this database, to make your search as effective and efficient as possible. 1

2 From the advanced search screen, enter your concepts in the search slots /lines, being careful to use one line for each separate concept. Use search tricks like truncation symbols, and Boolean operators, for a more efficient search. In Emerald, instead of using quotation marks around a phrase, click on the circle beside Phrase below the search slot. To retrieve the most relevant results, open the pull-down menu beside each search slot and highlight Content item title. That way, your search terms have to appear in the title of any article that is retrieved. If you don t make this change, articles will be retrieved that contain your search terms in their full text, and this often means they are not focused on your topic. You can further narrow your search by using the filtering mechanisms below the search slots (see the screen shot above). All journals included in Emerald are peer-reviewed so there is no need to limit your search this way. However, do be aware that not all the articles in the peer-reviewed journals are themselves peer-reviewed. Click on the circle beside Within: My subscribed content if you do not want to see citations for articles without full text in this database. If you are doing an extensive search for a major assignment, it is inadvisable to exclude articles without full text. Although you may not find the article in Emerald, the citation may help you find it in another database. If you can t find it in any of the Academy s databases, ask a librarian to find it for you. If you want only recent articles, or an article from a particular time period, set the date range using the drop down menus beside Items published between and Click on Search to conduct your search. 2

3 If you get a screen like the one below, first check your spelling / typing. If all is correct, then your search is too narrow for this database. Go back to the Advanced search screen by clicking the back arrow and adjust your search. If you do get results, the display will look like the screen below. The results of your search are divided into categories (books, journals, bibliographic databases, case studies). Each category has its own results list. Simply select the type of content you wish to view by clicking on the grey tabs at the top of the results display. The number of results will be given for each category. 3

4 Scan the results to find the most relevant for your purpose. Only journal articles were retrieved from this search; there were no book chapters (see bottom). Look at number 3 below. The first line is the title of the article. Under article title is the author or authors. Note that authors names are always written in direct order in Emerald, so you have to invert them to create APA references. Right after the authors names is the title of the journal, followed by the volume and issue number. Year is at the end. Under the bibliographic information about the article you will see various links, including Abstract & purchase, View HTML and View PDF. If Abstract & purchase is the only active link (as in number 1 above), then there is no full text in this database for the article. Make a note of the details so you can search in the other databases, or ask a librarian to get it through inter-library loan. If both HTML and PDF versions are available (as in number 4 above), always prefer PDF format because this will give you a full scanned version of the original print document, including page numbers. Page numbers are important for APA in-text references. To see the full text, click on View PDF. 4

5 To print the article, click on the printer icon at the top left. Save a copy to your P drive by clicking the save icon also at the top left. Send the article by to your own address or that of someone else, by clicking the link beside the printer icon. 5

6 PUBLICATION SEARCH Emerald can also be used as if its periodicals were on a library shelf. You can browse a range of issues for one title, or find a specific issue. Click on Books & journals under Browse in the left column. Narrow the list down by clicking on Just journals at the top. Scan down through the alphabetical listing or click on the first letter of the first word of the title, in the right column. Click on the title of a journal to see all the volumes and issues that are in the database. Click on an issue to browse its table of contents or to find a specific article. 6

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