March 2016

SAGE Publishing and Transfer

SAGE Publishing is proud to endorse the Transfer Code of Practice to use commercially reasonable efforts to ensure that any journal transfers in which we are involved are consistent with the Code. We encourage all our librarian customers to sign up to the valuable Transfer Alerting Service (TAS) to receive journal transfer notifications from many publishers including SAGE.

For more information please visit here.

We are delighted that Choice, Booklist and the Reference and User Services Association (RUSA) recognized nine SAGE Publishing resources as ‘top resources of 2015’! The SAGE Encyclopedia of Alcohol: Social, Cultural, and Historical Perspectives by Scott C. Martin was honored by RUSA on its 2015 Outstanding Reference Sources list. Titles honored by Choice as Outstanding Academic Titles include:

• SAGE Research Methods Cases
• For Ethnography, by Paul Atkinson
• Encyclopedia of Transportation (CQ Press), by Mark Garrett
• Historical Guide to World Media Freedom, by Jenifer Whitten-Woodring and Douglas A. Van Belle
• The SAGE Handbook of Feminist Theory, by Mary Evans, Clare Hemmings, Marsha Henry, Hazel Johnstone, Sumi Madhok , Ania Plomien and Sadie Wearing
• The SAGE Encyclopedia of Intercultural Competence, by Janet M. Bennett
• The SAGE Encyclopedia of Theory in Counseling and Psychotherapy, by Edward S. Neukrug

The SAGE Encyclopedia of Transportation was further distinguished as a Top 25 title and The SAGE Encyclopedia of Intercultural Competencewas named by Choice as one of the top 75 resources for community colleges. The SAGE Encyclopedia of Intercultural Competence was also named on Booklist Editors’ Choice: Adult Books, 2015 list.

Click the hyperlinks above to read more about these award-winning titles.

Adam Matthew received a Platinum award for ‘Popular Medicine in America, 1800-1900' and Honorable Mention distinction for 'Popular Culture in Britain and America, 1950-1975' at the  LibraryWorks, Inc second annual Modern Library Awards (MLAs). The MLAs were created to recognize the top products in the library industry in a truly unbiased format. According to LibraryWorks, Inc, the MLAs are "a product-review program designed to recognise elite products in the market".

Find out more about the Adam Matthew’s Platinum award win here.

Technical and business innovation expert Timo Hannay, has joined SAGE Publishing’s Board of Directors as a non-executive Director.  Chaired by the company’s founder, Sara Miller McCune, the board is comprised of experts from university faculty, libraries and business who give strategic management advice to the owners of the company. Among his previous roles, Dr. Hannay was a founding Managing Director of Digital Science, a Publishing Director of nature.com, a management consultant, a writer for The Economist and a neurophysiologist at the University of Oxford and Waseda University in Tokyo. We can’t wait to see the innovation and flair he brings to the board as we continue to develop new products and invest in revolutionary ideas in the scholarly community!

Find out more about the announcement here.

Researchers often find and retrieve the content they need through carefully planned searches - but what about less structured, unexpected instances of scholarly discovery? SAGE Publishing has released a new two-part white paper that explores the common researcher experiences that lead to “chance” discoveries as well as opportunities for information professionals to support and encourage serendipity in academic research.

The first paper discusses findings from a global survey of 239 students and faculty combined with user experience research and interviews with publishing experts and technology suppliers, alongside an in-depth review of relevant literature. The second paper details how this research led to the development of SAGE Recommends, a new discovery tool launched in December 2015.

Read the full white paper here and if you have any questions about its content, please email PR@sagepub.co.uk.

Supporting (Big) Data Research - Presented by: SAGE, ER&L, and Library Journal
As scholars use new digital tools and resources to expand their scope of research and teaching, libraries are evolving to support them. This recorded webinar offers the chance for librarians to learn about the tools, resources, and services used to support curricular and research needs and engage in discussions with colleagues who are helping their libraries reimagine services and evolve to support for their communities. Watch the full recorded webinar here.  

Data Visualization - Presented by: SAGE, ER&L, and Library Journal
Data visualization labs have become a hot trend in academic libraries, helping scholars interpret, describe, and communicate complex data sets such as census data, image collections, maps, or molecular models. Over the past few years large, high resolution displays have been appearing in academic libraries. Now that these displays have been present in libraries for some time the question is how are they being used and who is using them? In this webinar, librarians from several academic institutions shared their experiences. Watch the full recorded webinar here.

Case Studies for Open Science - Presented by: SAGE, ER&L, and Library Journal
The Open Science initiative aims to make research and data accessible to and reusable by the broadest possible audience, encompassing such practices as open publication, open peer review, and open access; and, encourages the “open notebook” approach, in which the process of scientific research is openly shared, often in advance of a project’s completion. In this webinar current activities and trends outside of libraries are described, highlighted and connected to the roles librarians/libraries can play in helping to make these processes more readily available and adopted. Watch the full recorded webinar here.

Please note that you will need to register to view to archived webinars.

SAGE Business Cases brings business to life – inspiring students and researchers to develop their own best practices and prepare for professional success.The first significant, discipline-wide, digital collection tailored to library needs – SAGE Business Cases is highly-interactive, faculty-friendly, and allows for instant and lasting IP access rather than the usual per case purchase model.

Be one of the first libraries to enhance their business programs with this robust and truly global collection of business cases. Contact us now for more information about how SAGE Business Cases will help you foster highly employable graduates and future successful business people:

• 1,000 cases at launch, spanning a wide array of topics mapped to business curriculum and across all global regions
• Many cases include teaching notes, discussion questions, and learning objectives
• Various formats to suit a range of academic uses and levels of students

Get more information here and request a trial here.

SAGE Business Stats

In September 2015, SAGE Publishing announced the launch of SAGE Business Stats, a collection of more than 4,000 statistical data series for students and researchers working on business plan projects and market research assignments.

SAGE Business Stats offers historic, current, and projected demographic and industry data points down to the zip-code level and is the second in SAGE’s suite of resources that support business curricula and research and the third collection of data on the SAGE Stats platform.

Find out more about SAGE Business Stats here.

SAGE Knowledge redesign

In October 2015, SAGE Knowledge migrated to a new platform, providing a visually enhanced user experience allowing for more content discoverability and a better research experience. The new responsive design provides simultaneous, unlimited users a seamless experience on desktops, tablets, and other mobile devices. Now hosting more than 6,100 titles and videos, it includes an expansive range of SAGE eBook and eReference content including scholarly monographs, reference works, handbooks, series, professional development titles, and now SAGE Video. SAGE Knowledge will expand to include
SAGE Business Cases, a collection of case studies from real-world business situations, launching in 2016.

Through SAGE Recommends, a new SAGE discovery tool, users will have the ability to link to other SAGE content not currently on the platform, including SAGE Research Methods, SAGE Journals, U.S. Political Stats, SAGE Stats, and CQ Researcher. The feature brings together content from across the social sciences, allowing researchers to cross-search and seamlessly access a wide breadth of SAGE resources relevant to their work.

Library discovery indexing

We are excited to announce that all of our 2015 launch products listed below will soon be fully indexed in the four major library discovery services*. Click here for more information.  

2015 products:

• SAGE Video (2015 collections)
• SAGE Research Methods Cases
• SAGE Research Methods Datasets
• SAGE Business Researcher

*OCLC WorldCat Discovery, Ex Libris Primo Central, EBSCO Discovery Service (EDS) & ProQuest Summon

The SAGE Publishing Library team had a wonderful time at the ALA in Boston, in January 2016. In addition to our full array of library resources, we were excited to highlight the newest additions to our portfolio, SAGE Video and Business and Management products, including SAGE Business Researcher, SAGE Business Stats and the upcoming SAGE Business Cases.  We enjoyed meaningful interactions with more than 300 customers in the booth and were happy to see good participation in our in-booth and presentations demos, including “Student Use of Video on Campus,” “Supporting Entrepreneurship Across Campus,” and “How Are Research Methods Taught Within The Curriculum?”

Other highlights from the conference included an in-booth Graph Wall and the RUSA Awards. For the Graph Wall, we asked librarians about the most common learning style they see among their patrons. Participants answered the question by writing the name of their library on a post-it note and placing it over one of five given answers: Reading, Audio, Visual, By Repetition, and Learn by Doing. At the end of the conference, the majority selected Learn by Doing, with Visual coming in second. Also, we were pleased to learn that the SAGE Encyclopedia of Alcohol won an Outstanding Reference Source Award from RUSA.

Librarian Resource Center

Don’t forget to visit the librarian resource center where you can find marketing material for all of our digital products including the 2016 Digital Product Catalogue, promotional tools, product training information, SAGE white papers, details of developing world initiatives and much more.

SAGE Library News

Follow SAGE Library News to keep up to date on SAGE Publishing activities in the academic, public, and special library communities. Please get in touch with questions, queries or comments as we always welcome feedback. We look forward to engaging with you!

Keeping you updated on SAGE Connection – Insight

Our company blog, SAGE Connection-Insight, bridges the gap between scholars, practitioners, librarians, researchers, and students and the company that publishes the work that they value. See below for a list of recent posts we thought you might enjoy:

• Connecting with the Community: Marie Kennedy on supporting librarians as researchers
• Connecting with the Community: Bronwyn Cross-Denny on Reducing Research Anxiety for Students
• 6 Ways Libraries are Innovating for the Future
• Connecting with the Community: Roz Tedford on Librarians’ support of the Research Process
• Researching Researchers – Three Voices in Academic User Experience