A note from the Managing Editor

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(2001), "A note from the Managing Editor", Education + Training, Vol. 43 No. 8/9. https://doi.org/10.1108/et.2001.00443haa.002

A note from the Managing Editor

Emerald, the new name and vision for MCB UP Ltd

From 2002, the publishers of this journal will be changing their trading name from MCB UP Ltd to Emerald. In doing so, we shall be building on the success of the Emerald Fulltext database – the on-line database which contains the current and archival content of Education + Training and many other journals besides. You will see some very clear changes in 2002: this journal will feature a new logo and an entirely new cover design, both reflecting the Emerald brand.

It is very likely that you already know the Emerald name because electronic usage of our journal content has doubled every year since 1996 and the trend continues. Here are some interesting statistics about the Emerald database:

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  There were nearly 1 million user sessions in 2000.

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  Over 5.5 million articles were delivered to users in 2001 (more than 16,000 per day)

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  Between January 2000 and May 2001, the number of academic institutions with access to Emerald Fulltext more than tripled.

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  A total of 92 per cent of the world's top business schools choose Emerald journals and 93 per cent of them have contributed articles to Emerald journals ("top" business schools based on Financial Times business school rankings 2000).

Why is this such important news for all potential authors amongst this journal's readership? Simply because any paper published in this peer-reviewed journal in 2002 will ultimately be disseminated to a vast, global audience of both academics and practitioners. What better incentive could there be for submitting your work to Education + Training in 2002?

Key events for your diary

The following events will be of interest to readers of Education + Training.

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  13th Annual Conference of the European Association for International Education: International Education: Realizing Human Potential. Tampere, Finland. December 6-8, 2001. Details from the EAIE Secretariat, PO Box 11189, 1001 GD Amsterdam, The Netherlands. Tel: +31 20 525 4999; Fax: 31 20 525 4998.

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  Quality assurance: which way now? An evaluation of the impact of QA and the future implications for HEIs. British Library Conference Centre, London, UK. December 7, 2001. See http://www2.open.ac.uk/cheri

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  Third Conference on HRD Research and Practice Across Europe (2002), sponsored by the University Forum for HRD, EURESFORM and the Academy of HRD. Point Hotel, 34 Bread St. Edinburgh, Scotland, UK. January 25-26, 2002. See http://www.lums.lancs.ac.uk/ufhrd/events/euroconf3.htm for further information.

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  Academy of Human Resource Development (AHRD) International Research Conference. Radisson Hotel Waikiki, Honolulu, Hawaii, USA. February 27-March 3, 2002. See http://www.ahrd.org/events/events_main.html for further information.

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  6th ILM Conference 2002: Employment, Unemployment and Under-employmentJune 2002. Centre for International Labour Market Studies, Robert Gordon University, Aberdeen. See http://www2.rgu.ac.uk/subj/las/cilms/home.htm

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  Academy of Management 2002 Conference: Building effective networks.August 9-14, 2002. Denver, Colorado, USA. See http://www.aom.pace.edu/meetings/ for further information.

Conference reports from readers on any of these events would be welcome (contact pfernandez@emeraldinsight.com).