Welcome to the first issue of SAGE’s Librarians’ Newsletter in 2008.  This year has started off with an exciting announcement that SAGE’s online journal delivery platform, SAGE Journals Online (SJO) has won the 2007 PSP Award for Excellence for best platform in the electronic publication category. Also in the news, SAGE has signed a major nationwide agreement for the German academic sector bringing a broad range of high quality peer-reviewed journals – and over 177,000 articles – to the German research community.    

Back in the UK, SAGE will be exhibiting at the 2008 UKSG Annual Conference and Exhibition (http://www.uksg.org/event/conference08), 7-9 April 2008 at the Riviera International Conference Centre, Torquay. If you are attending the Conference please don’t forget to come and visit us on stands 53 & 54 and enter the prize draw to win an Apple iPod Touch.

We hope you find the information in this newsletter useful. If you have any comments, questions, or suggestions with regard to our Librarians’ Newsletters or other librarian promotions, please feel free to email us at any time at: LibrarianNewsletter@sagepub.com

We look forward to hearing from you!
Best wishes,

SAGE Library Team

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SAGE Journals Online Wins 2007 PSP Award for Excellence for Best Platform

Journal Transfers

In 2008, 26 journals are moving to SAGE and will be available electronically on SAGE Journals Online, SAGE’s online journal delivery platform.

If your library has access to one or more of these journals through your participation in a consortial network, please contact us at your earliest convenience so that we can ensure your access is uninterrupted. Please note that customers who have already subscribed to Premier 2008 do not need to fill in the form, as they will already be receiving 25 of the titles on the list. The only title which is not included in Premier 2008 is Promotion and Education.

To view a list of journals moving to SAGE in 2008 please visit http://secured.sagepub.com/consortiatitles.html and fill out the form to ensure your continued access. We will let you know once your online access has been activated and will contact you to discuss your subscription/access options now that these journals are published by SAGE.

If you have any queries regarding journal transfers please contact: journaltransfers@sagepub.co.uk

Enhancement to Usage Reporting Function on SAGE Journals Online

If you access usage reports from SAGE Journals Online you may be interested in the recent enhancement. Previously, when you clicked on usage reports the default setting was to produce a usage report for the current month.  The interface has now been improved so that when you click on the usage report link you will receive the "subscriptions I administer" page. This page now features the usage reports menu where you can choose which usage report you want for a specified time period.

In addition, there will be a checkbox to email the tab-delimited report regardless of how many subscriptions you have (Reports with more than 200 subscriptions will still be sent via email regardless of whether this box is checked). Additionally, you can enter the email address where the report should be sent.  It will default to the primary account administrator but can be changed to any email address.  This will enable you to delegate the report being sent to a different email address rather than your own if you wish.

We hope you will find this enhancement useful.

For further information on how to access usage reports on SAGE Journals Online:

http://www.sagepub.co.uk/librarians/zone/journals/subscription.sp

SAGE signs major nationwide agreements for the German academic sector

SAGE and the Bavarian State Library (Munich) on behalf of the German Research Foundation, Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG), have completed a three-year nationwide licensing agreement. SAGE content is now available to universities and other publicly-financed research institutions in Germany. This agreement is embedded in an initiative to improve access to specialized electronic resources for German universities, research institutes and academic libraries, financially supported by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft and coordinated by major research libraries like the Bavarian State Library.

Over 170 German academic institutions, governmental institutions and major research centres, including the Max Planck Society, can now access SAGE Premier – a leading collection of over 480 journals in business, humanities, social sciences, science, technology and medicine. The agreement also includes access to the SAGE Shallow Backfile (1999-2006).

This is part of a pilot project to provide nationwide access to current content collections with financial support from the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft. SAGE is a long-established leader in the social sciences, and has more recently developed a flourishing collection of science, technology and medical journals, bringing a broad range of high quality peer-reviewed journals – and over 177,000 articles – to the German research community. 

“This agreement with SAGE is an important and highly desired step in the evolution of our digital procurement strategy for the German research community,” stated Johannes Fournier, Programme Director Electronic Publications, DFG. “We are very pleased with the constructive manner in which the library and publishing communities worked together and helped us in achieving our goals.”

A further agreement has been made enabling an outright purchase of the SAGE Deep Backfile – 367 SAGE journal backfiles from volume 1 issue 1 to 1998, containing over 371,000 research articles.

“We’re delighted that SAGE content is now available to this research community,” commented Clive Parry, Sales and Marketing Director, SAGE. He continued,

“SAGE strives to make content as widely visible and accessible as possible, so that researchers can find the content they need quickly and efficiently. By facilitating access to both our current and backfile content, the DFG have enabled us to offer a significantly-enhanced service to the German research community.”

2008 SAGE Journals Catalogue Now Available Online!

Don't Forget That Deep Backfile of 350+ SAGE Journals is Available for Lease or Purchase…

Ensure that researchers and faculty at your library have perpetual access to the complete archive of SAGE journal content, back to volume 1, issue 1. Purchase the deep backfile today of the individual journals to which your library subscribes by contacting your subscription agent or ordering directly via SAGE at backfilesales@sagepub.co.uk
Benefits of purchasing the deep backfile of individual SAGE journals include the following:

• Online access to material which was previously available exclusively in print
• Electronic access to over 3.7 million pages of content, alleviating the problem of limited shelf space
• Perpetual access to purchased content
• Access to volume 1, issue 1, including content dating back to the 1800s
• Enhanced SAGE Journals Online features and functionality

The entire SAGE Deep Backfile package is also available for lease or purchase for libraries and consortia.  Contact journalsales@sagepub.co.uk for pricing information.

Top 10 Downloaded Journals in 2007

Below are the top 10 most-downloaded journals on SAGE Journals Online (based on full-text article downloads) from January to December 2007

1. The American Journal of Sports Medicine
2. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin
3. The Journal of Clinical Pharmacology
4. Theory, Culture & Society
5. Educational and Psychological Measurement
6. Human Relations
7. Sociology
8. The ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science
9. Journal of Travel Research
10. Nursing Science Quarterly
    

Toxicologic Pathology Now on SAGE Journals Online

Toxicologic Pathology is now published by SAGE on behalf of the Society for Toxicologic Pathology. The journal is now available on SAGE Journals Online at http://tpx.sagepub.com. All articles are free online one year after official publication.

Toxicologic Pathology focuses on the multidisciplinary elements that constitute toxicologic pathology, including spontaneous and experimentally induced morphological and functional changes, environmental exposures, case reports, and risk assessment and investigative techniques. The journal publishes original articles, symposia papers, brief communications, current topic reviews, current issues, and fast-track articles. 

2006 Impact Factor:  2.092

Rankings: 26/65 in Pathology and 30/76 in Toxicology

Title Update

All Recently Published Titles

All Forthcoming Titles

List of All Reference Titles

SAGE eReference available through a JISC licence agreement

SAGE is happy to announce that SAGE eReference is now available to UK universitylibraries through a JISC licence agreement.

SAGE eReference is an online collection of authoritative and award-winning encyclopedias. Fully searchable, with an easy-to-browse interface, it provides students and researchers with a wealth of knowledge right at their fingertips.

The JISC agreement offers greater flexibility for UK institutions through affordable pricing and special licensing terms which ensure that staff, researchers and students can make the best use of these high quality online resources.

Contact at e-reference@sagepub.co.uk quoting JISC08 for further information, to arrange a free trial or to order a SAGE eReference package today.

http://www.sage-ereference.com

Experience SAGE eReference

Coming soon …
In April 2008, for the first time, SAGE eReference will offer a platform-wide free trial for a month to anyone who wishes to experience our online encyclopedias.  Stay tuned for more information on how to participate in this exciting trial.

Contact e-reference@sagepub.co.uk for trials, consortia pricing and additional information about eReference

SAGE’s e-book programme

SAGE is pleased to announce that currently there are 400 titles with e-book aggregators which provide e-book content to libraries.  We have partnered with MyiLibrary, Ebrary, Dawsons and E-Books Corp who in addition to their library service also provides retail e-books through their site.  Further information about all the vendors is available on their sites:

Our e-book programme will be rapidly developing over the next year and the amount of content available to students and libraries around the world will improve vastly.  It’s an exciting project and one which is critical to meeting the needs of our customers.  For further information please contact Natasha.girundel@sagepub.co.uk

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Regional Sales Contacts for Online Products

Below are your regional sales contacts for licensing agreements (individual and multi-site institutions and consortia), including Sage Premier, Backfile purchases and leasing, renewals of the SAGE Full-Text Collections and eReference. For general enquiries, you may also send an email to journalsales@sagepub.co.uk For quotes within the UK, Europe and South Africacontact your local representative below:

Customer Service Account Managers for Library Consortia and Online Products

SAGE Account Managers work closely with our Customer Service and Sales team to ensure that you receive full support for our online services. This includes our Consortia and SAGE Full Text Collections offering, Backfile purchase, eReference and online technical support. Your Account Manager will be happy to assist you with any questions you may have about our online products. Please contact onlinesupport@sagepub.co.uk with any queries

Regional Sales Contacts for Books
For book enquiries for Europe, UK, the Middle East, Africa, and Asia Pacific please contact the appropriate representative below:

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