SAGE Open is a new open access publication from SAGE. It publishes peer-reviewed, original research and review articles in an interactive, open access format. Articles may span the full spectrum of the social and behavioral sciences and the humanities.

SAGE Open seeks to be the world’s premier open access outlet for academic research. As such, unlike traditional journals, SAGE Open does not limit content due to page budgets or thematic significance. Rather, SAGE Open evaluates the scientific and research methods of each article for validity and accepts articles solely on the basis of the research. This approach allows readers greater access and gives them the power to determine the significance of each article through SAGE Open’s interactive comments feature and article-level usage metrics. Likewise, by not restricting papers to a narrow discipline, SAGE Open facilitates the discovery of the connections between papers, whether within or between disciplines.

Why publish in SAGE Open:

1. Quick review and decision times for authors
2. Speedy, continuous-publication online format
3. Global distribution of your research via SAGE Journals Online, including enhanced online features such as: public usage metrics, comments features, subject categories, and article ranking and recommendations
4. Professional copyediting and typesetting of your article will ensure quality
5. $395 introductory author acceptance fee (discounted from the regular price of $695)

• Authors who want their articles to receive quality reviews and efficient production, ensuring the quickest publication time
• Authors who want their articles to receive free, broad, and global distribution on a powerful, highly discoverable publishing platform
• Authors who want their articles branded and marketed by a world-leading social science publisher
• Authors who want or need their articles to be open access because of university or government mandates

Manuscript submissions will be handled online through SAGE Track, SAGE’s web-based peer review and submission system, powered by ScholarOne Manuscripts^TM. Visit http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/sageopen for full manuscript submission guidelines.

Please direct any inquiries to sageopen@sagepub.com.