SAGE SPOTLIGHT
ANNOUNCEMENTS |
SAGE Congratulates Its ALA Midwinter Meeting Raffle Winner
We hope you enjoyed the 2006 American Library Association Midwinter meeting in San Antonio, Texas, and we thank you for visiting us at the SAGE booth. We will be contacting you in the coming days in response to your inquiries and requests.
We also thank all who entered our raffle to win five online journal subscriptions and an encyclopedia or handbook for your institution. We are pleased to announce the winning institution is Texas Woman's University—Congratulations to John Hepner, Reference Librarian, for winning on behalf of his institution.
Once again, we were pleased with your interest in our electronic products and we hope you benefited from the online demonstrations of the SAGE Full-Text Collections and SAGE Journals Online.
To register for a free trial or to subscribe to the SAGE Full-Text Collections, contact CSA at sagecollections@csa.com.
To purchase single title institutional journal subscriptions directly through
SAGE, please contact:
In the Americas, Caribbean, and Asia Pacific: journals@sagepub.com
In the United Kingdom, Europe, Middle-East, Africa and Australasia: subscriptions@sagepub.co.uk
SAGE Announces New Offering to NESli2 Institutions for 2006
SAGE is pleased to announce a new offer for NESli2 institutions in 2006. The offer, which is open to all UK research institutes and institutes of further education, has been developed in direct response to the dialogue that SAGE continues to have with librarians and faculty at UK academic institutions. The new offering from SAGE is called SAGE Premier, and provides a single, easy route for institutions to 389 full-text titles, all via the SAGE Journals Online platform hosted by HighWire. Currently, 11 UK institutions have already opted to purchase SAGE Premier via NESLi2 for 2006. The new NESli2 offer for SAGE Premier will initially run from January to December 2006, with a view to expanding it to longer term, multi-year deals.
View the full list of the titles available via SAGE Premier or read the complete press release.
JOURNALS |
New and Forthcoming Journals from SAGE
We are pleased to announce that the following journals will be published by SAGE in 2006 and 2007. All of these journals will be available on SAGE Journals Online (http://online.sagepub.com) upon publication of their first SAGE issue.
New in 2006
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Society |
ISSN |
eISSN |
First SAGE Issue |
The Accounting and Finance Association of Australia and New Zealand |
1032-3732 |
TBA |
Vol 11(1), Feb 2006 |
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1746-8477 |
1746-8485 |
Vol 1(1), Jul 2006 |
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1354-8565 |
1748-7382 |
Vol 12(1), Mar 2006 |
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1746-1979 |
1746-1987 |
Vol 1(1), Mar 2006 |
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International Institute for Environment and Development |
0956-2478 |
1746-0301 |
Vol 18(1), Apr 2006 |
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Division on Women and Crime of the American Society of Criminology |
1557-0851 |
1557-086x |
Vol 1(1), Jan 2006 |
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1555-4120 |
1555-4139 |
Vol 1(1), Jan 2006 |
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0017-8969 |
TBA |
Vol 65(1), Mar 2006 |
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International Society for the Study of Behavioural Development |
0165-0254 |
1464-0651 |
Vol 30(1), Jan 2006 |
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0973-2586 |
0973-2594 |
Vol 1(1), Mar 2006 |
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Industrial Relations Society of Australia |
0019-8692 |
1472-9296 |
Vol 48(1), Feb 2006 |
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0734-2829 |
1557-5144 |
Vol 24(1), Mar 2006 |
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Royal Society for the Promotion of Health |
1466-4240 |
1476-9042 |
Vol 126(1), Jan 2006 |
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0973-1741 |
0973-1733 |
Vol 1(1), Apr 2006 |
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1744-9359 |
1744-9367 |
Vol 1(1), Feb 2006 |
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National Association of Secondary School Principals |
0192-6365 |
TBA |
Vol 90(1), Mar 2006 |
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National Association for Youth Justice |
1473-2254 |
1747-6283 |
Vol 6(1), Apr 2006 |
Coming in 2007
Journal Title |
Society |
ISSN |
First SAGE Issue |
American Journal of Lifestyle Medicine |
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1559-8276 |
Vol 1(1), Jan/Feb 2007 |
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1557-9883 |
Vol 1(1), Jan 2007 |
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International Sociological Association |
1749-9755 |
Vol 1(1), Mar 2007 |
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1558-6898 |
Vol 1(1), Jan 2007 |
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Personality & Social Psychology Review |
Society for Personality and Social Psychology |
1088-8683 |
TBA |
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0952-0767 |
TBA |
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SAGE SPOTLIGHT |
Independent Study of Orthopaedic Journals Ranks The American Journal of Sports Medicine as Highest Quality
In an article recently published in the American edition of The Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery (Volume 87, December 2005), The American Journal of Sports Medicine (AJSM) was recognized for publishing the most articles based on studies with higher “level-of-evidence” ratings.
According to Obremskey, Pappas, Attallah-Wasif, Tornetta, and Bhandari's article "Level of Evidence in Orthopaedic Journals" in The Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery, "studies with higher level-of-evidence ratings (Level I or II) are generally more reproducible for general application to patient care than are those with lower ratings" (2005, p. 2632). Randomized controlled trials are categorized as Level I or II.
The authors studied nine major orthopaedic surgery journals and found that AJSM “had the highest percentage (31.4%) of Level-I or II articles” and the highest impact factor. They also found that the “percentage of articles that were rated Level I or II increased in accordance with the 2003 journal impact factors for the individual journals [studied]” (p. 2634).
They added that “the frequency with which a particular journal publishes studies with high level evidence correlates with the size of that journal's readership and the overall perception of its quality” (p. 2637).
The authors evaluated articles published between January and June 2003. AJSM 's impact factor in 2003 was 2.063. In 2004, it rose to 2.402.
For more information on The American Journal of Sports Medicine, visit www.ajsm.org.
New to SAGE Journals Online (as of December 2005)
The following journals are now available electronically on SAGE Journals Online. Please click on the journal titles to be directed to each journal's new website.
(ISSN: 1557-0851) |
(eISSN: 1557-086X) |
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(ISSN: 1555-4120) |
(eISSN: 1555-4139) |
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(ISSN: 0019-8692) |
(eISSN: 1472-9296) |
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(ISSN: 1744-9359) |
(eISSN: 1744-9367) |
Free Access Available for New Journals (no registration required)
To help familiarize you, your faculty, and your students with our new journal titles, we offer free online access for a limited time to all our new journals launched on SAGE Journals Online—no registration is required! The following journals currently have free access:
International Journal of Behavioral Development (free
access ends March 31, 2006)
Journal of Industrial Relations (free
access ends March 8, 2006)
Management and Organizational History (free
access ends March 8, 2006)
Throughout the year, SAGE also offers various free online trials which are open to both individuals and libraries. View the complete list of free trials (registration required).
RSS Available on SAGE Journals Online
SAGE is pleased to announce that RSS feeds of tables of contents are now available for the journals listed below. RSS feeds will be available for other SAGE journals over the coming months.
The ANNALS of the American Academy of Political
and Social Science
Health Education and Behavior
Health Promotion Practice
Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin
What is RSS?
RSS stands for Really Simple Syndication (also known as Rich Site
Summary) and is an XML specification that allows content providers (such as
SAGE) to provide a portion or all of their content via text files that can
be easily re-formatted by others. RSS facilitates the ability for services
to pull content from a variety of different content providers and provide that
content to users via email (source: squeet.com). RSS feeds send headlines with
links and brief descriptions directly to users' desktops as soon as the desired
content is available.
What does this mean for you?
As a librarian, RSS feeds allow you to easily pull the fed metadata
through to your web portals and to share valuable content and news with your
faculty and students.
Top 20 Downloaded Journals in 2005
Below are the top 20 most-downloaded journals on SAGE Journals Online (based on full-text article downloads) from January to December 2005.
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FREE
Article Download from IFLA Journal
As a valued patron, we are pleased to offer you the following article free of charge.
Managing the Electronic
Collection with Cost per Use Data
Brinley Franklin, University of Connecticut Libraries
This paper reviews some of the early efforts to develop cost per use data
for electronic collections and discusses some of the ways libraries, consortia,
and publishers currently use unit cost information to make management decisions.
Emerging trends in the standardization of electronic usage statistics and concurrent
utilization of cost per use data to manage electronic collections hold tremendous
potential for libraries and library consortia to increasingly employ reliable
cost and use data to support collection development and management decisions.
The author, Brinley Franklin, is Vice Provost for Libraries at the University
of Connecticut, USA. He is involved nationally and internationally in the assessment
of academic library performance. Brinley has chaired the Association of Research
Libraries' Statistics and Measurement Committee since 2003 and also serves
on the IFLA Standing Committee on Statistics and Evaluation, the National Center
for Education Statistics – Academic Libraries Statistics Advisory Committee,
and the Association of College and Research Libraries Statistics Committee.
IFLA Journal is published in association with the International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions.
View
the new SAGE Full-Text Collections Brochure
Library Consortia
If you are interested in SAGE's new offerings for library consortia, view our new brochure.
SAGE REFERENCE & BOOKS |
Forthcoming Titles from SAGE Reference
Encyclopedia of World
Poverty
Edited by: Mehmet Odekon, Skidmore College
May 2006, ISBN: 1-4129-1807-3, $395.00
Encyclopedia of Career
Development
Edited by: Jeffrey H. Greenhaus, Drexel University
Gerard A. Callanan, West Chester University
May 2006, ISBN: 1-4129-0537-0, $325.00
Encyclopedia of Immigration
and Migration in the American West
Edited by: Gordon Morris Bakken, California State University,
Fullerton
Alexandra Kindell, Iowa State University
March 2006, ISBN: 1-4129-0550-8, $295.00
Encyclopedia of Educational
Leadership and Administration
Edited by: Fenwick W. English, University of North Carolina at
Chapel Hill
February 2006, ISBN: 0-7619-3087-6, $325.00
Encyclopedia of Multicultural
Psychology
Edited by: Yolanda Kaye Jackson, University of Kansas
August 2006, ISBN: 1-4129-0948-1, $175.00
Encyclopedia of Industrial
and Organizational Psychology
Edited by: Steven G. Rogelberg, University of North Carolina
at Charlotte
July 2006, ISBN: 1-4129-2470-7, $375.00
Encyclopedia of Human
Geography
Edited by: Barney Warf, Florida State University
May 2006, ISBN: 0-7619-8858-0, $150.00
Forthcoming Handbooks from SAGE
Handbook of Gender and
Women's Studies
Edited by: Kathy Davis, University of Utrecht
Mary Evans, University of Kent at Canterbury
Judith Lorber, City University of New York
The Handbook of Gender and Women's Studies presents a comprehensive and engaging review of the most recent developments within the field, including the study of masculinity, the feminist implications of postmodernism, the “cultural turn” and globalization.
April 2006, 512 pages
ISBN: 0-7619-4390-0, $125.00
The SAGE Handbook of
Fieldwork
Edited by: Dick Hobbs, London School of
Economics
Richard Wright, University of Missouri-St. Louis
The SAGE Handbook of Fieldwork presents the first major overview of this method in all its variety, introducing the reader to the strengths, weaknesses, and 'real world' applications of fieldwork techniques.
January 2006, 416 pages
ISBN: 0-7619-7445-8, $130.00
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