SAGE Librarians’ Newsletter – November 2007

This final issue in 2007 of the SAGE Librarians’ Newsletter looks back at some of the new developments we undertook this past year and provides information that is relevant to you, your library and your users. We digitized our journal content back to volume 1, issue 1, and have made this content available for lease or purchase. We also enhanced SAGE Journals Online, our online journal delivery platformto ensure our users benefit from the best possible user experience. Our SAGE eReference platform was launched, making our award-winning encyclopedias available online. And most recently, we signed a major new agreement with the Hindawi Publishing Corporation to launch a suite of fully Open Access journals. Read on for more information about these developments and more:

• New journals and changes for 2008
• Updates on our 2008 journal packages, including the SAGE Deep Backfile Package
• Updates on our STM journals publishing programme
• An Update from Peter Shepherd on five years of Project COUNTER
• Enhanced Web 2.0 features on the SAGE Journals Online platform
• Discover all that you love about our print encyclopedias online, with SAGE eReference
• SAGE eReference receives rave reviews!

SAGE will be exhibiting at Online Information, 4-6 December 2007, Olympia, London, UK again this year. It is the world’s number 1 conference for the information industry and we hope to see you there.

Come to our stand (334) and enter a competition to guess how many Health Sciences Journals we publish and you may win a home cinema. Good luck!

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 working with you in 2008!

Best wishes,

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2008 New Journals and Changes

Now Published by SAGE* (2008)

For the following 4 MENC journals, please continue to send all orders until at least July 1, 2008 to:
EBSCO, MENC Subscription Office, PO Box 361, Birmingham AL 35201-0361 USA  [menc@ebsco.com]

No Longer Published by SAGE (2008)

The following 10 abstract journals have been sold to EBSCO.  Orders for these titles may be sent to SAGE
until December 31, 2007 but subsequent orders should be directed to EBSCO.

Click here for more information on frequency changes, title changes, and new journals and changes in 2007.

View the 2008 price list

*The publication of electronic content may vary from the print publication date.

Complete Your Archive by Purchasing the SAGE Deep Backfile to Volume 1, Issue 1

If your institution has a Combined or E-access subscription to individual SAGE journals, electronic access is available at your library to the current issue back to 1999.  As a result of the recent digitization project that SAGE undertook, online access to the majority of SAGE’s peer-reviewed, highly-ranked journals is now available back to volume 1, issue 1.  Electronic access is provided on SAGE Journals Online, SAGE’s online journal delivery platform.
Purchase the deep backfile today of the individual journals to which your library currently subscribes to ensure that researchers and faculty at your library have perpetual access to the complete archive of SAGE journal content.
Benefits of purchasing the deep backfile of SAGE journals include the following:

• Online access to material which was previously available exclusively in print
• Electronic availability of 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

SAGE Full-Text Collections www.sagefulltext.com

The SAGE Full-Text Collections are 10 award-winning, discipline-specific research databases including more than 250 journals, 240,000 articles, and backfiles back to volume 1, issue 1.

We are pleased to announce that 10 new titles will be added to several of the SAGE Full-Text Collections in 2008.  If your library currently subscribes to any of the following SAGE Full-Text Collections, you will automatically have access to these new titles as soon as they become available online.

New in 2008

Criminology Collection
Sexual Abuse

Education Collection
Gifted Child Quarterly
Journal of Early Intervention
Research Studies in Music Education

Management & Organization Studies Collection
Journal of Entrepreneurship
Journal of Human Values
Journal of Leadership & Organizational Studies

Political Science Collection
International Studies  
Journal of Developing Societies

Sociology Collection
Journal of Black Studies

Hindawi

We’re very pleased to announce a new partnership with the Hindawi Publishing Corporation to launch a suite of fully open access journals. All SAGE-Hindawi journal articles will be made freely available online via www.sage-hindawi.com, funded by author charges.

The partnership will see equal ownership between SAGE and Hindawi. SAGE will have sole responsibility for the editorial development, marketing, and promotion of the new journals, while Hindawi will provide the technology and expertise needed to run the publication process from the point of submission, through the peer-review process, to the point of final publication.

We’re committed to maintaining innovative publishing models for the benefit of our customers and publishing partners, and as such Hindawi is an ideal partner for SAGE, being able to offer a highly effective publishing system that will allow us to focus on our longstanding reputation for high quality marketing and editorial expertise, while offering a viable option for disseminating open, unrestricted access to research.

More information on the initiative is available online at www.sage-hindawi.com, and we will continue to keep you up to date as we launch new titles in 2008.

New Web 2.0 Features on the SAGE Journals Online Platform

We are delighted to announce that the following Web 2.0 social bookmarking features are now live on SAGE Journals Online: Connotea CiteULike Del.icio.us Digg Reddit Technorati   In addition, the new "Email this article to a friend" feature is now active.  You will find these features to the right of an article's abstract, enabling users to share articles of interest with their colleagues quickly and easily.

Visit the SAGE Journals Online platform at http://online.sagepub.com to browse these enhanced features.

Change to Institutional Usage Reporting on SAGE Journals Online

We are pleased inform you that there has been a change to the institutional usage reporting on SAGE Journals Online.  The change aims to improve the usability of the reports for you and your institution by removing the duplicate lines of usage for the same journal that you may have seen in your COUNTER reports to date.

Duplicate lines of usage arose on an account when Journal A was subscribed to individually, and Journal A was also subscribed to (on the same account number) as part of the SAGE Premier package or the SAGE Full-Text Collection packages.

A new de-duping code (implemented by HighWire Press on October 15) will ensure that usage to a journal is counted and reported just once regardless of the number of SAGE packages that grant access to it on the same account number.

Please note that you may still see a journal’s usage reported on different accounts attached to your administrator email address.

We hope you find this change an improvement in the usability of SAGE usage reports.

SAGE Journals Online is hosted by HighWire Press who are rolling out this change across all publishers on their portal. Should you have any questions or concerns about this change and your reports please visit http://highwire.stanford.edu/cgi/feedback.

COUNTER – 5 years on

It is now 5 years since the formation of COUNTER and 4 years since the launch of the first COUNTER Code of Practice in 2003 enabled libraries around the world to compare and contrast the usage for different journals and databases across different subjects from different publishers. There are now over 60 vendors providing COUNTER compliant usage reports for over 10000 full-text journals, as well as for a growing number of online databases, books and reference works. A new discipline of usage bibliometrics has developed and a great deal of work is underway to try to establish ‘value metrics’ associated with usage, in which the COUNTER compliant statistics play an increasingly important role.

COUNTER does more than just set the standards for usage reports; we are cooperating with a number of organizations to develop a range of usage-related research and services.  In 2006 COUNTER carried out research, sponsored by JISC (the UK Joint Information Systems Committee) on the effects of publisher platforms on usage and we are currently collaborating with the UK Serials Group on the possible development of a new Journal Usage Factor metric. COUNTER has also worked with NISO on SUSHI (Standardized Usage Harvesting Initiative) to develop a protocol to facilitate the automated harvesting and consolidation of usage statistics from different vendors. This protocol may be found on the NISO website at http://www.niso.org/schemas/sushi/index.html#COUNTER

While COUNTER has greatly improved the reliability and usability of online vendor usage statistics, there is still much for us to do, not only to help vendors further improve their usage reports and to help librarians to make sense of them, but also to keep the COUNTER codes up to date with changes in the online delivery of information. Our future objectives fall into three broad categories:

• to improve further the reliability of the core COUNTER data and extend scope of the Code of Practice beyond journals, databases and books
• to continue to increase the number of COUNTER compliant vendors
• to work with other industry organizations to facilitate the implementation of COUNTER and develop metrics based on the COUNTER data that are of practical value to both librarians and vendors. 

For further information and to apply to become a member of COUNTER please visit the COUNTER website: http://www.projectcounter.org/member.html.

SAGE eReference Receives Rave Reviews!

SAGE eReference includes over 60 of SAGE's authoritative and award-winning encyclopedias available online. Key features and functionalities include the following:

• Serves unlimited users
• Perpetual access to purchased content – purchase price includes 5 years of hosting
• Browse by Readers Guide, Entries, A to Z list, and Index
• Supports MARC Records
• SAGE provides MARC records through OCLC at no charge
• Provides printable pages that can also be copied and pasted, as well as “email this entry” or “cite this entry” (citations in three common formats) options
• Supports simple searches for any word or phrase in the encyclopedia as well as Fielded Boolean searches
• Offers access from your browser – no downloads or special readers needed

Since launching SAGE e-Reference this year, we’ve received rave reviews on the usability and content. Read on for some of the highlights!

“…the Reference Staff at Sawyer Library eagerly seeks out useful online reference collections we can make available to our users. We've just purchased a very valuable one called Sage eReference…we hope you'll find this new electronic reference shelf as useful as we do!”
—Kathi Maio, Mildred F. Sawyer Library, Suffolk University

“Will librarians and users hold the electronic version in the same high regard as the print collection? Yes, most definitely, given the content’s quality and the smooth interface.  This user-friendly database presented none of the glitches that can accompany the initial use of a new product…This excellent reference resource includes a brief tutorial.”
—L. Lord, University of Kansas, CHOICE

“This product is wholeheartedly recommended for public, academic, school, and special libraries supporting research in the social sciences from high school level onward.”
—Cheryl LaGuardia, Library Journal

“To meet the needs of students, who consistently say ‘Where am I?’ while searching, SAGE has designed its interface with several visual cues, including a unique top banner for each reference-book title.  This banner, a montage of the book cover design, is present on every page and changes according to the title being viewed.  It is visually pleasing, stylish, and useful for reminding users where they are.”
—Sue Polanka, Booklist

“Another distinctive aspect of SAGE eReference is the Reader’s Guide, a feature found in all SAGE print encyclopedias and a dynamic navigation tool online.”
—Sue Polanka, Booklist

Special Offer – SAVE with eReference

Purchase SAGE’s eReference Collection by December 31, 2007 to receive a special discount!*

View our eReference Collection packages:

Contact your regional Library/Consortia Sales Manager for more information on this limited-time offer and for pricing information.

*Price increases for 2008 take effect January 1, 2008

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Request a Trial to SAGE’s Science, Technology, and Medicine Packages

SAGE’s STM portfolio continues to expand, and we currently publish over 150 journals in science, technology and medicine, many of which are ranked in the Thomson Scientific 2006 Journal Citation Reports®.  We are now offering our STM titles in three separate packages in the fields of clinical medicine, health sciences, and science, technology and medicine, with backfile to 1999

Science, Technology, and Medicine – 150 journals including the following:

• Two #1 ranked journals in the Thomson Scientific 2006 Journal Citation Reports®
• The International Journal of Robotics Research

2006 Impact Factor: 1.591
Ranked 1/12 Robotics

• Neurorehabilitation & Neural Repair

2006 Impact Factor: 2.403
Ranked 1/27 in Rehabilitation
Ranked 51/146 in Clinical Neurology

• Journal of Composite Materials, Journal of Biomolecular Screening, and Reproductive Sciences

Health Sciences – 115 journals including

• The Diabetes Educator

Official Journal of the American Association of Diabetes Educators
Increased its Impact Factor by 400% since 2003

• Evaluation & the Health Professions

Increased its Impact Factor by 228% since 2001
With an Immediacy Index of 2.263, Evaluation & the Health Professions is at the top of its category for publishing articles of immediate importance.

• Health Education & Behavior, Medical Decision Making, and Western Journal of Nursing Research

Clinical Medicine – 57 journals including the following:

• The Journal of Clinical Pharmacology
  Official Journal of the American College of Clinical Pharmacology
  Increased its Impact Factor by 57% over the last 3 years
  2006 Impact Factor: 3.058
  53/199 in Pharmacology & Pharmacy
• Journal of Cardiovascular Pharmacology and Therapeutics
  Ranked for the first time in the JCR!
  2006 Impact Factor: 1.000
  59/74 in Cardiac and Cardiovascular Systems
  156/199 in Pharmacology & Pharmacy
• The Neuroscientist

Increased its Impact Factor by 302% since 2001!
2006 Impact Factor: 5.710
5/146 in Clinical Neurology
20/199 in Neurosciences

The American Journal of Sports Medicine, Angiology, and Clinical Pediatrics

Counseling and Psychotherapy Transcripts, Client Narratives, and Reference Works

How will hospitals use this product? This product will be a helpful and practical tool for staff psychologists, psychiatrists and psychiatric nurses, as well as residents in training at medical schools and university training hospitals.  The database includes the following:  2,000+ previously unpublished transcripts of therapy sessions edited to preserve anonymity. Users will find transcripts of treatment sessions dealing with post-traumatic stress disorder, schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, childhood trauma, sexual abuse, eating disorders, and many other conditions. 40,000+ first person accounts, which allow users to understand, appreciate, and feel empathy for those with disorders 25,000+ pages of SAGE handbooks and reference works that complement and provide context to the first person accounts

How will hospitals use this product?
This product will be a helpful and practical tool for staff psychologists, psychiatrists and psychiatric nurses, as well as residents in training at medical schools and university training hospitals.  The database includes the following: 

• 2,000+ previously unpublished transcripts of therapy sessions edited to preserve anonymity. Users will find transcripts of treatment sessions dealing with post-traumatic stress disorder, schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, childhood trauma, sexual abuse, eating disorders, and many other conditions.
• 40,000+ first person accounts, which allow users to understand, appreciate, and feel empathy for those with disorders
• 25,000+ pages of SAGE handbooks and reference works that complement and provide context to the first person accounts

What are the benefits to hospital staff?
The unique content in the database can be used as a training tool in hospitals. The transcripts offer an opportunity to increase the accuracy and speed of psychiatric evaluations, by allowing the appropriate hospital staff to be able to research subjects they are dealing with and apply the related experiences to their case.  Furthermore, by reading transcripts of actual therapy sessions, hospital staff will gain a better understanding of the conditions of the patients they are treating. It is difficult for someone in training to treat a patient who has been suffering from a condition for several years: This database offers an opportunity for insight into the suffering of patients.

In addition to the transcripts and primary accounts, the product contains 36 SAGE handbooks and encyclopedias covering topics, including addictions, child maltreatment, cognitive behavior therapy, counseling psychology, stress, and coping.  These books offer encyclopedia entries, case studies, and how-to materials.

All three types of material in the database can be browsed in a variety of ways, including by author, practitioner, the symptoms discussed, diagnosis of disorders, or therapeutic approach used in the treatment.

Visit www.alexanderstreet.com/products/psyc.htm for more information.

Sign Up for a Free Trial to SAGE’s STM Launch Journals

SAGE is rapidly growing it’s portfolio of titles in science, technology and medicine. In 2007, we launched the following four new STM journals:

Visit www.sagepub.co.uk/launches for more information or to sign up for free online trials to SAGE’s launch journals:

SAGE Launches New Medical Journal Series

In September 2007, SAGE announced the launch of a new journal series dedicated to the latest therapies for major world wide diseases.

The series, encompassing the highest quality peer-reviewed scholarly content, focuses on groundbreaking studies of diseases and emerging pharmacology and medicine. The first journal in the series, Therapeutic Advances in Cardiovascular Disease, was launched on September 2 at the European Society of Cardiology Annual Congress in Vienna, Austria. The first issue is available online at http://tac.sagepub.com. The second journal, Therapeutic Advances in Respiratory Disease followed on September 15 at the European Respiratory Society Annual Congress in Stockholm, Sweden. The first issue is also now available online at
http://tar.sagepub.com.

Published bimonthly starting with Volume 2 in February 2008, the journals are aimed at clinicians and researchers in the fields of cardiovascular and respiratory diseases and will be a forum for all views in these disciplines. Future launches in the series include Therapeutic Advances in Urology & Nephrology, Gastroenterology & Hepatology, Neurological Disorders, with more to be announced.

Free online trials to Volume 1 of both journals are available until December 31, 2007. To register for the Therapeutic Advances in Cardiovascular Disease trial, go to https://online.sagepub.com/cgi/register?registration=TAK.  To register for the Therapeutic Advances in Respiratory Disease trial, go to https://online.sagepub.com/cgi/register?registration=tar.

SAGE sponsors the 2007 SAGE Lecturer of the Year at the Science Engineering and Technology Student of the Year Awards

SAGE is delighted to have sponsored for the first time this year the 2007 SAGE Lecturer of the Year at the Science Engineering and Technology Student of the Year Awards.  (SET Awards)  Speaking at an “Oscar-like” awards ceremony in September at London’s Alexandra Palace, Ziyad Marar, SAGE's Deputy Managing Director and Publisher congratulated lecturers as the unrecognized heroes in the science and engineering community.

“Better funding and greater support for lecturers and teaching staff are crucial in the battle to engage and attract young people into science and engineering careers,” he said.  This claim is made at a time when a shortage of science graduates risks threatening the future of British industry.  The SET Student of the Year Awards are designed to raise the profile of science and technology education in Britain.  They are judged by professional SET bodies and sponsored by global industrial and pharmaceutical companies.

“We’re particularly pleased to be the first academic and professional publisher to sponsor the SAGELecturer of the Year Award and delighted that Dr. Andrew Owen from the Pharmacology Department at the University of Liverpool has won the Award.  It recognizes his key role in personally inspiring and nurturing the talent and drive of the young students at Liverpool today.”  For further information, go to www.sagepub.co.uk/awards .

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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 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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