Emerald Insight development highlights
Since launching our Emerald Insight platform in July 2019, we’ve continued to work hard on developing new features and functionality that will enhance the user experience. Here we share some of our highlights.
Forward-thinking design
Designed to make social sciences research easy and enjoyable to discover, our platform has been built from the ground up in collaboration with leading international academic institutions to ensure that every decision is carefully considered and validated by our users.
The forward-thinking design offers an engaging and rewarding user experience; showcasing researchers’ work, paving the way for rapid evolution and meeting future research needs.
2021 highlights
January, 2021
Voluntary Product Accessibility Template® (VPAT®) updated - in line with our commitment to ensure that our platform is accessible for all of our users, regardless of their ability or technology.
February, 2021
Enhancements to UX – designed to ‘deliver content to user quicker’.
Reducing the size of static images and icons and using a ‘lazy load’ technique for images has resulted in a significant reduction in page loading time.
Particularly impactful when viewing content on a laptop or mobile device; by reducing or automatically minimising ‘non content’ page surround, the user can view more content in one place and reduce scrolling.
February, 2021
eCases Browse – the first of the scheduled enhancements to this area is implemented. This allows users to filter Emerging Markets Case Studies content by date of publication.
2020 highlights
December, 2020
New 'Bulk citation' feature allows the user to select multiple pieces of content from the 'search results' page, then download all .RIS files into one combined file.
December, 2020
New ‘Keyword’ and ‘Country’ filters for Expert Briefings allows the user to discover the content they need quicker and provide inspiration for new searches based on related keywords.
Try out the new filters across all Expert Briefings content >
November, 2020
Faculty and students can sign up to receive an Expert Daily Briefings email alert that brings together all briefings published on a daily basis offering the latest analysis of global events as they happen.
Read the FAQs to find out more >
Share this guide to setting up Expert Daily Briefings email alerts with students & faculty >
October, 2020
New enhanced browse functionality. Accessed from the “Browse our Content” link on the top navigation bar, users can now browse all journals and books together on one page.
September, 2020
The Account Management Portal (AMP) allows the administrator at an institution to manage all their Emerald resources in one place, using their own user profile login.
September, 2020
Emerald Insight has been updated to advance our commitment to conform to level AA of the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 2.1 and Section 508 Standards of the U.S. Federal Accessibility Standard.
September, 2020
Improved "relevance" criteria returns results when you search on Emerald Insight. Better sorting methods include "oldest to newest" and "newest to oldest".
August, 2020
Expert Briefings cotnent is added to the TrendMD widget, further integrating this content and making it discoverable alongside journals, books and cases.
June, 2020
Enabled through their profile area, users can sign up to recieve content alerts for their chosen titles.
May, 2020
Search within a journal functionlaity allows users to surface content within a single title
April, 2020
Predictive search, accessed from the 'quick search' function will make recommendations for results whilst the user is typing.
March, 2020
Trend MD widget will recommend six pieces of related content to the reader, three pieces of content from emerald.com/insight and three from other publishers.
February, 2020
Updated the sitemap XML to ensure the content is grouped in the most efficient way to ensure Google crawlers can work more effectively and our content is more discoverable.
February, 2020
PDF and HTML links are reinstated on the search results page to facilitate content download.
February, 2020
Altmetric Badges displayed on individual journal article pages, further demonstrates Emerald's commitment to a more inclusive approach to research evaluation and impact
January, 2020
New browse option accessed from top navigaton bar users to browse content by journals, books, case studies, Expert Briefings and Open Access.