Italy’s Emilia Romagna healthcare consortium choosing Emerald

Italy’s hospital library consortium, Consorzio delle Biblioteche Mediche dell’Emilia Romagna, has awarded Emerald Group Publishing a three year deal. Users from five of the twelve hospitals of the consortium in the Emilia Romagna region of Italy will receive access to the Emerald Fulltext Plus database of electronic journals.

[UKPRwire, Tue Feb 28 2006] Italy’s hospital library consortium, Consorzio delle Biblioteche Mediche dell’Emilia Romagna, has awarded Emerald Group Publishing a three year deal. Users from five of the twelve hospitals of the consortium in the Emilia Romagna region of Italy will receive access to the Emerald Fulltext Plus database of electronic journals.

For over 35 years Emerald Group Publishing Limited has published specialist management, library & information science and engineering titles – focusing on niche as well as established areas of interest to an international audience including healthcare, general management, policing and strategy. Emerald Fulltext today has grown to an expanding collection of over 120 titles and a fast-increasing database of over 40,000 articles.

Eleonora Belletti, Head of Consorzio delle Biblioteche Mediche dell’Emilia Romagna, says, “This consortium aims to support the spread of evidence-based medicine and continuous education in medicine. We are particularly interested in Emerald’s healthcare management portfolio for use with our 2000+ users from clinicians to nurses and administrative staff. The resources from Emerald will help us to ensure the best possible diagnoses based on the latest scientific evidence available and will sit alongside our other electronic resources such as The Cochrane Library and The British Medical Journal.”

Emerald’s healthcare portfolio comprises:
• Clinical Governance: An International Journal
• Health Education
• International Journal of Health Care Quality Assurance
• Journal of Health Organization and Management
• Nutrition & Food Science

Jordi Caralt, Emerald’s Regional Manager for Southern Europe and Israel adds, “Our healthcare portfolio ranges from publications such as Clinical Governance which is a world-leading title for practising clinicians, to journals such as the International Journal of Health Care Quality Assurance focusing on specific aspects of modern healthcare management.”

Other customers of the Emerald healthcare portfolio include the National Health Services of Scotland and Wales.

About Emerald’s healthcare journals
Clinical Governance: An International Journal
Scope: Practical and clinically-based.
Frequency: Quarterly.
Readership: A wide range of professionals in primary, secondary and healthcare, including clinicians and audit managers.
Editors: Professor Jeff Lucas and Dr John Wright

Health Education
Scope: Evidence, research, information and ideas on modern health education.
Frequency: 6 times/year
Readership: Health educators in hospitals, local government, medical centres and schools.
Editor: Professor Katherine Weare

International Journal of Health Care Quality Assurance
Scope: The journal offers information and guidance on continuous improvement programmes to raise service and performance standards.
Frequency: 7 times/year
Readership: Nursing staff introducing quality management methodologies, professional managers in health services, healthcare managers in the private sector, academics.
Editor: Dr Keith Hurst

Journal of Health Organization and Management
Scope: Focuses on the main issues involved in management in medicine on an international scale: from care to quality, training, NHS and funding, marketing and structuring.
Frequency: 6 times/year
Readership: For doctors, healthcare managers and researchers, and academics.
Editors: Nancy Harding and Jackie Ford

Nutrition & Food Science
Scope: Contemporary thinking on current preoccupations from industry, health and public perspectives.
Frequency: 6 times/year
Readership: Food research institutes, food research institutes, healthcare professionals, nutritionists, dieticians and academics and researchers in the field.
Editor: Dr Mabel Blades

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