SAGE Librarians' Newletter - December 2007

This final 2007 issue of the SAGE Librarians’ Newsletter looks back at some of the new developments we undertook this year. Some of these important projects include digitizing our journal content back to volume 1, issue 1, which is now available for lease or purchase. We also enhanced SAGE Journals Online, our online journal delivery platform with a more user-friendly design and search features.  In addition, we launched the SAGE eReference platform making our over 60 award-winning encyclopedias available online. Read on for more information about our products and services including the following:

• New journals and changes for 2008
• Updates on our 2008 journal packages, including the SAGE Deep Backfile Package
• Updates on our STM journals publishing program
• 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

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.

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2008 New Journals and Changes

Launch Journals* (2008)

Now Published by SAGE* (2008)

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.

Further information on journals which have previously left SAGE may be found at http://online.sagepub.com/moved.

View the 2008 price list

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, 350,000 articles, and backfiles back to volume 1, issue 1.

We are pleased to announce that 10 new titles will be added to 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

To request a trial for any of SAGE’s electronic journal packages, please contact your regional Library/Consortia Sales Manager.

For more information about SAGE’s electronic journal packages, click here.

Complete Your Archive of SAGE Journal Content by Purchasing Deep Backfile

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. 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 individual 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
  
  

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 will be 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.

SAGE eReference Receives Rave Reviews!

Special Offer - SAVE with eReference

Discover all that you love about our print encyclopedias online, with SAGE eReference.  Purchase by December 31, 2007 and save hundreds of dollars!

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

Learn more about the eReference platform…
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

Purchase SAGE’s eReference Collection by December 31, 2007 to receive a special discount!*
Contact your regional Library/Consortia Sales Manager for pricing information.

*Price increases for 2008 take effect January 1, 2008

Buy the online version of the SAGE Sourcebook of Modern Biomedical Devices for $895 and get the print set for FREE!

Take advantage of this special offer before the end of the year, and save $600!*

For more information, please contact librarysales@sagepub.com.

*Offer expires December 31, 2007

SAGE Continues Its Ongoing Partnership
with the Academic Community through Its SAGE Center for the Study of the Mind Lecture Series

Eminent scholars will be visiting to lecture on a variety of topics such as

January 24, 2008: TBA
Susan Carey, The Henry A. Morss, Jr., and Elizabeth W. Morss Professor of Psychology

February 21, 2008: “Stress, Personality and Health: Studies of Wild Baboons”
Robert Sapolsky, Professor of Biological Sciences and Neurology and Neurological Sciences, Stanford University

March 6, 2008: “Functional Specificity in the Cortex: Selectivity, Experience, & Generality”
Nancy Kanwisher, Ellen Swallow Richards Professor of Cognitive Neuroscience, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

April 24, 2008: “Envy”
Aldo Rustichini, Professor of Economics, University of Minnesota

May 22, 2008: “Do Robots Have a Mind?”
Daniela Rus, Professor, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Co-Director, Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory Center for Robotics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

As the US gears up for the next presidential election, we all speculate on who will win—and why. Does it matter if the candidate is male or female, minority or majority, attractive or not?  SAGE, in conjunction with the Foundation for the Advancement of Behavioral and Brain Sciences (FABBS), sponsored a thought-provoking Science Café on October 24, 2007 at Washington DC’s National Press Club to discuss those issues.

The Café presented two dynamic and entertaining speakers. Eugene Borgida, PhD, of the University of Minnesota, discussed variables identified by political psychologists, such as gender, race, and experience that influence who we decide to vote for. Alexander Todorov, PhD, of Princeton, focused on the appearance of the candidates and how people form personality impressions from facial appearance. Applying this research to elections, he showed how judgments of competence—based on facial appearance—predict the outcomes of elections. Afterwards, a substantial question-and-answer period brought the audience into the discussion.

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 following:

• 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
  
  
  
  

  Contact librarysales@sagepub.com to request a trial today!

How will hospital staff 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+ pages of first person accounts, which allow users to understand, appreciate, and feel empathy for the patients they are treating. 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 cases.  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.

Click here to request a trial. For information on pricing, please contact librarysales@sagepub.com.

Video Journal of Orthopaedics–Now Available to Libraries on DVD, in Streaming Video or Both!

The Video Journal of Orthopaedics (VJO) puts the viewer in the operating room with noted surgeons from around the world. They will discover ways to use new technology, new techniques and expand their field of knowledge. And unlike simply reading about new ideas, VJO lets the user experience the latest techniques first hand through high-quality, professionally-edited digital video. Original peer-reviewed videos examine established surgical techniques, as well as introduce informative and innovative methods valuable to the orthopaedic surgeon.

• 12 new videos a year
• Archive of over 350 procedures
• Many derived from peer-reviewed journal articles from leading surgeon authors
• Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery (JBJS) Video
• Supplements
• Professionally edited, broadcast quality video
• Detail from best angles
• Experience in OR protocols
• Surgeon insights and tips

To subscribe or request a price quote, email librarysales@sagepub.com.

SAGE is rapidly growing its portfolio of titles in science, technology and medicine. In 2007, we launched the following four new STM journals and are planning to launch one more in 2008 (Foot & Ankle Specialist):

American Journal of Lifestyle Medicine

American Journal of Men's Health

Therapeutic Advances in Cardiovascular Disease

Therapeutic Advances in Respiratory Disease

Foot & Ankle Specialist

Visit www.sagepub.com/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.

“We’re very excited by the launch of the Therapeutic Advances journals,” commented Ziyad Marar, SAGE Deputy Managing Director and Publishing Director. “Our investment in the series reflects SAGE’s continued commitment to our STM publishing program, complementing our established reputation as the market leader in the social sciences.”

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.

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 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 SAGE Lecturer 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.

SAGE Account Representatives are aligned with our Sales team to coordinate all aspects of your experience with SAGE. They are specifically assigned to individual institutions and library consortia by region. Your Account Representative will be glad to assist you with questions concerning individual journal subscriptions and E-access issues, as well as pricing for individual journals, backfile purchases and leasing, renewals of the SAGE Full-Text Collections, eReference queries, and any questions that might be specific to your institution. Please find your local representative listed below:

For technical support for SAGE’s electronic products, please contact Chuck Sterling, Technical Support Representative, at chuck.sterling@sagepub.com.

Regional Sales Contacts for Online Products

Below are your regional sales contacts (individual and multi-site institutions and consortia) for electronic databases and eReference. For general inquiries, you may also send an email to librarysales@sagepub.com.

For quotes within the United States, Canada, and the Americas contact your local representative below: