Emerald Publishing partners with Knowledge Unlatched for e-book collection

Emerald Publishing has partnered with Knowledge Unlatched (KU) to create and promote an Open Access e-book collection in business management and economics. 

The exclusive deal starts from 2023 and is the first Open Access partnership of its kind for the publisher within its e-books portfolio.  

All book titles in the "Emerald Publishing – Responsible Management and the SDGs" package will also focus on responding to and achieving the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), with a particular focus on SDGs on decent work and economic growth; industry, innovation and infrastructure; and responsible consumption and production. 

Titles will cover themes such as diversity, inclusion and gender and racial equity in the workplace, sustainable tourism and ending forced labour, and how businesses of all sizes are working towards SDGs. 

Sally Wilson, publishing director, said: “We are delighted to partner with KU on this new collection. In its commitment to helping solve global challenges, Emerald has focused its commissioning activities on interdisciplinary, mission-led research that is aligned to its core Emerald goals that correspond to overlapping SDGs of responsible management, healthier lives, quality education for all, and a fairer society. This collection will enable us to offer new OA book titles aligned to these core goals. 

“In 2021, Emerald also became a founding signatory of the UN’s SDGs Publishers Compact, which is designed to inspire action among publishers and accelerate progress to achieve the SDGs by 2030.” 

Sven Fund, managing director of Knowledge Unlatched, added: “This collection presents libraries with an outstanding opportunity to support development of business management and economics knowledge in response to multi or interdisciplinary SDG objectives. By pledging to this collection, libraries can help build the SDG blueprint of achieving a better and more sustainable future for all that is also Open Access to everyone.”