Dear Librarian

Welcome to the Summer 2007 edition of the SAGE librarian newsletter. We have had a busy year so far, including establishing new partnerships with several prestigious societies to publish their journals. We’re delighted to share these developments and other news with you. 

This issue includes information about the following:

• 2008 Journal Pricing and Enhanced Subscription Options
• SAGE Partners with Hammill Institute on Disabilities to Publish 14 Journals in Special Education
• SAGE and Maney Publishing Exchange Journals
• SAGE and Brill Exchange Journals
• New Journals at SAGE
• SAGE Becomes Transfer Compliant
• Dramatic Growth of SAGE Market Share in 2006 Journal Citation Reports®
• Primary Sources in Counseling and Psychology: A New Online Database from SAGE and Alexander Street Press
• Awards News
• SAGE Library Advisory Board Meetings
• STM Spotlight
• SAGE Reference News
• Additional Resources

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.

Kind Regards,

Library Marketing
SAGE Publications

SAGE has announced journal pricing for 2008. Click here to see the price list for 2008 which includes pricing for the deep backfile* of SAGE journals.

The following subscription options are available to libraries for individual journals:

Combined – a Combined Institutional Subscription includes electronic access (which provides site-wide access to all content in the volume) and a print copy of each issue included in the volume for that title. This option includes temporary electronic access back to 1999.

Combined Plus Backfile – a Combined Plus Backfile Institutional Subscription includes electronic access (which provides sitewide access to all content in the volume) and a print copy of each issue included in the volume for that title. Temporary electronic access is provided to the journal backfile back to volume 1, issue 1.

E-Access – an E-Access Institutional Subscription (which provides site-wide access to all content in the volume) is offered at a 10% discount off the Combined Institutional Subscription rate and does not include copies of the print version of the journal. Temporary electronic access is provided to journal backfile back to 1999.

E-Access Plus Backfile – an E-Access Plus Backfile Institutional Subscription (which provides site-wide access to all content in the volume) is offered at a small increase to the E-Access Institutional Subscription rate and does not include copies of the print version of the journal. Temporary electronic access is provided to journal backfile back to volume 1, issue 1.

Print Only Institutional Subscription – the Print Only Institutional Subscription is offered at 2% off the Combined Institutional Subscription rate and includes temporary E-Access to the current year and previous year (while the subscription is maintained) – NEW!

View the individual journal price list for Combined, Combined Plus Backfile, E-Access, E-Access Plus Backfile, and Print Only subscriptions.

View pricing for the deep backfile of SAGE journals

Full Terms and Conditions of our Site License

*Deep backfile for the majority of SAGE's peer-reviewed scholarly journals in the humanities, social sciences, and scientific, technical, and medical fields is available for lease and purchase. Click here for more information.

SAGE is pleased to announce beginning January 1, 2008 it will act as the Hammill Institute on Disabilities’ representative regarding subscriptions, licensing, production, advertising, and online dissemination for their 14 journals in special education.

The Hammill Institute on Disabilities recently acquired the journals from previous publisher, PRO-ED, Inc. The Hammill Institute on Disabilities, a nonprofit corporation, will continue to own, publish, and manage the journals, including selection of editors and determining the overall editorial direction. This new strategic relationship between SAGE and the Hammill Institute on Disabilities significantly increases SAGE's presence in the field of special education and furthers the Hammill Institute on Disabilities’ educational and scientific charitable purposes.

Many of the 14 journals are affiliated with or sponsored by professional associations. The journals and their respective sponsoring associations are:

Subscriptions and Online Access
All of the journals have been added to SAGE’s recently released 2008 journal price list. As of today, institutions can order directly from SAGE or via a subscription agent.

Currently available electronically on Ingenta, beginning in early 2008 all of the titles will be hosted on SAGE Journals Online (SJO), SAGE’s online journal delivery platform. SAGE will also ensure backfile for each title is digitized and hosted in a timely manner. With this improved online availability, users will now be able to access the robust research published in the journals more easily using SJO’s advanced features to search, browse, alert and link scholarly articles.

“Our missions and the educational research we publish make our  strategic relationship with the Hammill Institute ideal,” commented Alison Mudditt, SAGE Executive Vice President.  “We look forward to working with the Institute to offer them superior services and support, as well as to increasing the journals’ online accessibility and usage.”

If your library subscribes to these journals and you have specific questions about the transition of these journals to SAGE, please contact your regional account representative in the SAGE Customer Service Department.

In order to complement their portfolios, SAGE and Maney Publishing have completed an exchange of three of their journals. In this unprecedented agreement, the Maney journals Chronic Illness and Journal of Endotoxin Research have been exchanged for the SAGE journal Comparative American Studies.

SAGE and Maney have reached an agreement that the SAGE journal Comparative American Studies would continue its inclusion in all consortial deals that had been signed for 2007. From the start of 2008, however, it would no longer be included. SAGE has provided Maney with a list of customers who are entitled to access Comparative American Studies.

All orders already sent have been transferred to the correct publisher to ensure that the exchange is seamless to our customers.

Online access to Comparative American Studies is now available on IngentaConnect at http://www.ingentaconnect.com/ and all subscribers have been informed of the transfer, including consortial customers entitled to access in 2007.

Online access for Journal of Endotoxin Research is now available on http://ini.sagepub.com/.

Online access for Chronic Illness is available on http://chi.sagepub.com/.

Please ensure your system is updated accordingly with this information and all orders and inquiries for these journals are sent to the appropriate office.

View complete press release

SAGE and Brill Exchange Journals

SAGE recently completed another strategic title exchange with Brill. From 2008, SAGE will publish Critical Sociology, and Brill will publish the Journal of Pentecostal Theology, Ecclesiology, Journal for the Study of the Historical Jesus, and the Journal of Moral Philosophy. SAGE is the market leader in sociology, publishing over 20 key titles including Sociological Methods & Research, Work and Occupations, and Sociology. We’re delighted to be working with Critical Sociology to continue its development and growth as part of this successful list.

View a complete list of resources in Sociology from SAGE

New Journals at SAGE

In addition to the titles mentioned above, SAGE is pleased to be publishing several other new journals in 2008. 

View a complete list of journals that will be published by SAGE in 2008

SAGE Becomes Transfer Compliant

SAGE has signed the UKSG Project Transfer Code of Practice. The Code sets out detailed guidelines for the transfer of journals between publishers. As a Transfer Compliant publisher, SAGE is committed to meeting an approved set of standards for any journal transfers after January 2008, including maintaining ongoing access to journal content after a journal has transferred and the timely provision of subscriber lists, title-related URLs and DOIs. Having recently launched the complete backfiles for the majority of our journals, SAGE is also committed to the transfer of rights and continued maintenance of backfile access, as well as all digital content.

Read the complete press release

Dramatic Growth of SAGE Market Share in 2006 Journal Citation Reports®

Continued high-quality growth in SAGE's journals program has served to dramatically increase the number of journals included in the Thomson Scientific 2006 Journal Citation Reports® (JCR). Between 2001 and 2006, SAGE has consistently increased its JCR coverage, with the number of ranked journals increasing by 39% in the Social Sciences edition and 127% in the Science edition. Over two-thirds (67%) of SAGE's ranked journals increased their Impact Factors in 2006.

To view highlights from specific disciplines, click on the links below:

Read the complete press release

NEW from SAGE and Alexander Street Press
Primary Sources in Counseling and Psychology: 1950 to Present
An online database of transcripts, primary accounts, and SAGE handbooks and reference works

SAGE and Alexander Street Press are pleased to announce the launch of a new online database, Primary Sources in Counseling and Psychology, 1950 to Present.  This database contains more than 2,000 transcripts of actual therapy sessions, along with almost 40,000 pages of first-person accounts and 25,000 pages of major reference works. Contents include diaries, letters, autobiographies, oral histories, and personal memoirs, along with the full text of therapy sessions.  All accounts are non-fiction, delivered in the first person and, where possible, contemporaneous.

Primary Sources in Counseling and Psychology, 1950 to Present will be available online, through one-time purchase of perpetual rights or by annual subscription. The database will grow to more than 100,000 pages by early 2008. Subscribers receive more than 30,000 pages of new material per year. Those who purchase perpetual rights will receive all updates through the end of 2008 and thereafter will pay a pro-rata update fee.

Read the complete press release

For more information visit www.alexanderstreetpress.com/products/psyc.htm.

To request a trial or for pricing information, contact librarysales@sagepub.com.

Awards News

UKeiG
For the second year, SAGE is sponsoring the UKeiG Tony Kent Strix Award and UKeiG Jason Farradane Awards, both prestigious accolades honouring achievement in information management. UKeiG is now seeking nominations for both awards, presented annually at the December Online information Meeting in London.

The UKeiG Tony Kent Strix Award is presented for an outstanding contribution to the narrower field of information retrieval, while the UKeiG Jason Farradane Award recognises brilliant work in information science. The deadline for both awards is Friday 14th September 2007 so don’t delay! Details of the individual awards together with the addresses to which nominations should be sent can be found at http://www.ukeig.org.uk/awards/index.html.

SAGE announces its sponsorship of two high profile awards

For the first time in 2007, we’re pleased to be sponsoring the Young Academic Author of the Year at The Times Higher Awards, and the Lecturer of the Year Award at The Science, Engineering and Technology (SET) Student of the Year Awards

Now in their third year, The Times Higher Awards aim to raise awareness and reward the contribution that British universities make to the economic and cultural health of Britain. SAGE is the first publishing company to join the Awards to celebrate the achievements of young academic authors across the United Kingdom.

The Science, Engineering and Technology (SET) Student of the Year Awards are Britain's most important awards for science and technology undergraduates.  Supported by British Industry and Britain's leading scientific and technical institutions, the SET awards are multidisciplinary to reflect the wide range of degrees UK universities have to offer.

We know these roles are critical to helping students achieve academic excellence, which is vital both to further knowledge and scholarly endeavour but also to provide the competitive edge that universities and economies alike need to succeed.

For more information about both awards visit www.sagepub.co.uk/awards

SAGE Library Advisory Board Meetings

We will be holding our Annual Library Advisory Board Meeting in London on the 10th September this year. Last year we had representatives from Sweden, France and the UK and this year we are expecting contacts from Sweden, Greece, Holland, Denmark, Germany, Switzerland and the UK, making it a truly international and collaborative meeting.

SAGE also held a Focus Group with eleven participating librarians in Philadelphia on May 18, 2007 in conjunction with the Medical Library Association Annual Meeting. The participants in this focus group represented health sciences libraries of all sizes, including university medical school libraries, teaching hospital libraries, a government funded medical centre library, pharmaceutical and biotechnology company libraries and cancer center.  The meeting was a great success.

The objectives for these advisory board meetings are as follows:

• To hear librarians’ impressions of SAGE as a publisher
• To learn about their procedures for selecting and purchasing new books and journals
• To gather feedback on SAGE's products and packages
• To gather suggestions on how SAGE should promote its publications
• To enable SAGE to stay in tune with the needs of our customers in the constantly changing library environment.

We enjoy the discussions that develop and are grateful to those who participate for their suggestions. We are constantly reviewing the overall suggestions of the groups, to see how SAGE can incorporate these suggestions into our business practices to ensure that we are fully meeting the needs of our customers.

If you are interested in becoming a future member of a SAGE Library Advisory Board or have any points you’d like to raise at our next meeting on 10th September, please contact the following SAGE representatives in your region:

STM SPOTLIGHT

Discover the 140+ Journals SAGE Publishes in Science, Technology, and Medicine (STM)

SAGE’s STM portfolio continues to expand and we currently publish over 140 journals in science, technology and medicine. We are pleased to update you on the latest developments to our STM journals program. We are now offering the following three packages to fit your needs:

Science, Technology, and Medicine: 143 journals
(View title list in PDF or Excel)

Health Sciences (incorporates the 48 titles in Clinical Medicine): 107 journals
(View title list in PDF or Excel)

Clinical Medicine: 48 journals
(View title list in PDF or Excel)

To request a trial or for pricing information, please contact librarysales@sagepub.com.

View the 2007 Science, Technology, and Medicine journals catalogue

Forthcoming Books in Healthcare and Medicine

The SAGE Sourcebook of Modern Biomedical Devices: Business Markets in the Global Environment is the first accessible, broadly available source of information that presents and quantifies the commercial success of numerous types of biomedical devices available in the global market.

The Encyclopedia of Cancer and Society is the first multi-volume resource to define the issues that surround cancer and its effects on society. With more than 750 entries, these three volumes help students, practitioners, and researchers navigate through the terminology and concepts to better understand how cancer affects us beyond the medical conditions that are regrettably more than obvious.

Select Medical Journals from SAGE available through SIMID® SMILE

SAGE and SIMID® SA have signed a licensing agreement whereby the metadata and the full-text articles of select SAGE medical journals will be included in the SIMID® SMILE database. SIMID launched SMILE, the Scientific Medical Information Library Europe, in 2005. SIMID® SMILE is a combination of a database and a library in which the metadata of medical journals and books are available, and users have full-text access.  The database covers 34 medical topics such as Oncology, Cardiology, and Psychiatry.

Journals Now Live on SAGE Journals Online (as of June 2007)

The following journals, including the six journals of the American Educational Research Association, are now available electronically on SAGE Journals Online. Please click on the journal titles to be directed to each journal's new homepage.

 For a list of all titles available on SAGE Journals Online, visit http://online.sagepub.com/.

Launch Journals Page Added to SAGE Librarians’ Site

In an effort to keep you updated on launch journals at SAGE, we have dedicated a page on our Librarians’ Website about new launch journals.  In 2007, SAGE is launching nine new journals in the disciplines of Communication, Education, Health Sciences, Medicine, Research Methods, and Sociology.  We are also planning three more launches for 2008.  For updates on our journal launch program, including free trial offers and promotional materials for your library, click here.
 

SAGE eReference—Sign Up Now for a Free Trial

SAGE is pleased to announce the launch of SAGE eReference with over 45 of our authoritative and award-winning encyclopedias now online.  To celebrate, we are offering free trials of our entire catalogue of online encyclopedias for a limited time. Email e-reference@sagepub.co.uk to set up a trial.  Once set up for a trial, you will be able to enjoy all our encyclopedias for 30 days!

Don’t forget, you can still order the Complete Catalogue of online encyclopedias at 40% off the print price. This offer includes 47 SAGE Reference encyclopedias for only £5,000. 
This offer has now been extended through December 2007, so order now!

2007 Frontlist Catalogue

Due to increasing demand, we are pleased to announce the release of the 2007 catalogue of encyclopedias; this package includes all 15 online encyclopedias publishing in 2007 for a special 20% discount off the print £2670 instead of the list price of £3345, a saving of £675! This offer is valid until December 2007.

View the list of 15 frontlist titles

Forthcoming Encyclopedias from SAGE Reference

Encyclopedia of Business Ethics  Edited by: Robert W. Kolb, University of Colorado September 2007; ISBN: 9781412916523; £300.00; 2,576 pages
Encyclopedia of Cancer and Society Edited by: Graham A. Colditz, Harvard Medical School September 2007; ISBN: 9781412949897; £180.00; 1,552 pages
Encyclopedia of Environment and Society Edited by: Paul Robbins, University of Arizona June 2007; ISBN: 9781412927611; £350.00; 2,736 pages
International Encyclopedia of Organization Studies Edited by: Steward R. Clegg, Sydney University of Technology; James R. Bailey, George Washington University July 2007; ISBN: 9781412915151; £300.00; 2,008 pages
Encyclopedia of Social Psychology Edited by: Roy F. Baumeister, Florida State University; Kathleen D. Vohs, University of Minnesota August 2007; ISBN: 9781412916707; £165.00; 1,248 pages

Forthcoming Handbooks

Handbook of Career Studies
Edited by: Hugh P. Gunz  University of Toronto; Maury A. Peiperl, IMD
July 2007; ISBN: 9780761930396; £85.00; 648 pages

Handbook of Clinical Interviewing With Adults
Edited by: Michel Hersen  School of Professional Psychology, Pacific University; Jay C. Thomas, Pacific University
August 2007; ISBN: 9781412917179; £85.00; 512 pages

Handbook of Clinical Interviewing With Children
Edited by: Michel Hersen  School of Professional Psychology, Pacific University; Jay C. Thomas, Pacific University
August 2007; ISBN: 9781412917186; £85.00; 496 pages

The Handbook of Mentoring at Work
Edited by: Belle Rose Ragins, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee; Kathy E. Kram, Boston University
October 2007; ISBN: 9781412916691; £85.00; 744 pages

Handbook of Metrics for Research in Operations Management
Edited by: Aleda Roth, Clemson University; Roger G. Schroeder, University of Minnesota; Xiaowen Huang, Miami University of Ohio; M. Murat Kristal, York University, Toronto
September 2007; ISBN: 9781412954518; £85.00; 776 pages

International Handbook of Organizational Crisis Management
Edited by: Christine M. Pearson, Thunderbird, The School of Global Management; Christophe Roux-Dufort, E. M. Lyon, France;   Judith A. Clair, Boston College
June 2007; ISBN: 9780761988519; £85.00; 368 pages

Get to Know Helen Cooke, Head of Journals Sales at SAGE London

Introducing Helen Cooke, our Head of Journals Sales at SAGE London. Helen looks after the European sales team selling into the European, Middle East and Africa regions.  Her responsibilities include looking after the team of 4 sales managers and 2 sales coordinators on a daily basis, whether negotiating site licences directly with consortia administrators, visiting libraries or working on pricing policy for future e-content models. 

During such an exciting time within academic publishing, work in all departments of a publisher is fast evolving – none more so than in the sales team.  Helen might be on the road one week attending a major library conference, such as UKSG or IFLA, working to feedback comments from librarians internally within SAGE which help inform and mould future pricing model decisions, or helping to speak to the sales piece of an important society tender to win rights to publish a journal.  Helen is also an active member, on behalf of SAGE, of the UKSG committee group. Life at SAGE is certainly never dull!

As journal products are ever expanding, there are always new things to discuss with the team and to promote to the library community.  At present the e-products portfolio at SAGE consists of SAGE Premier, deep Backfile, SAGE Full-Text Collections and SAGE eReference as well as other specific health and medical offerings for hospitals.  “The most important thing” says Helen “is that we are listening to our library customers - be they subject and serials librarians or consortia negotiators. That way we ensure we are developing products that the library community wants and including flexibility in our pricing models.”

Helen also works alongside the Asia-Pacific and Indian Journals sales teams based in Singapore and New Delhi, helping to train the sales teams and advise on policy decisions specific to their territories.

Helen has been working at SAGE for almost 3 years now, before that she worked at Blackwell Publishing where she managed Journals sales in Southern Europe and India as part of the Journals sales team.  It was here that Helen got to know many of the librarians across the region and developed her interest in the evolving and fascinating world of electronic journals and academic publishing.

Outside of work, Helen’s interests are diverse: she has a keen interest in music and has sung with various choirs, including the City of Oxford Choir and Blackburn Cathedral Youth Choir (where she met her now husband who was conductor there at the time!). She also enjoys aerobics, keeping up speaking French and Spanish where possible and exploring the fine country pubs of Berkshire where she lives.

Helen spoke in July at the ALPSP Publishing and the Library of the future seminar in Oxford and is going to be speaking at the UKSG Serials Practitioners seminar, Wed 3 Oct 2007 at Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists, London.

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 Africa contact your local representative below:

For quotes in Canada, South and Central America, please contact librarysales@sagepub.com.

For South Asia, please contact Sunanda Ghosh, SAGE Publications India Pvt. Ltd.

For East and Southeast Asia and Australasia, please contact Rosalia da Garcia, SAGE Publications, Asia-Pacific Pte. Ltd.

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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