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SAGE

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Company overview

SAGE Publications, a leading international publisher of books, journals, and electronic media, is a privately owned publishing company dedicated to the global dissemination of information.

Founded over 40 years ago with a mandate to make the best and most current scholarship accessible to a broad academic audience, SAGE recognizes that high quality scholarship requires dedication and commitment. SAGE works closely with authors and editors to produce the most outstanding work in the fields in which it publishes.

SAGE Publication acquires, develops, markets, and distributes knowledge. By disseminating scholarly and professional materials throughout the world, SAGE sets the standard for innovative, interdisciplinary, and international scholarship.

Focus

Since its inception in 1965, SAGE Publications has continued to enjoy tremendous growth. Originally focusing exclusively within the social sciences, SAGE now publishes across a variety of disciplines and professions. Constituents and authors include scholars, researchers, policymakers, professionals, and students of scientific and social sciences disciplines ranging from anthropology to women’s studies.

Sage Premier includes:

  • Access to 388 SAGE journal titles, comprising over 94,000 full text articles;
  • Access via SAGE Journals Online hosted by HighWire;
  • Access to the back file of each journal, dating back to 1999;
  • COUNTER compliant usage statistics;
  • Enhanced seach features;
  • CiteTrack email alerts. Track authors, articles or keywords;
  • Open URL linking.

The SAGE Premier deal includes leading international peer-reviewed titles, including high-impact research journals published on behalf of scholarly and professional societies. SAGE journals cover a wide range of subjects areas in the Arts and Humanities, Social and Behavioural Sciences and Scientific, Technical and Medical fields.

The agreement between eIFL and SAGE means that institutions and consortia in eIFL countries can access SAGE Premier for a three year period starting in 2006 until 2009 at greatly discounted rates.

If you are an institution in one of the eIFL countries and would either like to know whether your institution has access to SAGE Publications or how to gain access to them, please get in touch with your country coordinator.

Index of Journals offered
SAGE Premier provides access to eIFL member consortia to full text peer-review journals in the scientific and social sciences fields. These are:

Program management

The manager of eIFL Negotiations program is Susan Veldsman. If you have questions about Negotiations, please feel free to contact susan.veldsman[at]eifl.net

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