A Look Back at 2006. . .

We are pleased to provide you with the first Librarians’ Newsletter of the new year. Looking back, 2006 was quite a busy and exciting year for SAGE. We are committed to actively responding to the needs of our customers and this led to many new and important initiatives in 2006. We strengthened our offerings for libraries and consortia by:

• creating new journal packages
• digitizing our journal backfiles
• making the SAGE Full-Text Collections accessible on the SAGE Journals Online platform
• developing our new eReference platform
• adding 61 journals to our list (most significant annual growth in titles in SAGE's history)

In addition, our partnerships with several key consortia, the incorporation of our SAGE India office, and the addition of our Asia-Pacific office in Singapore (with sales operations across the region) were significant milestones in increasing our global sales presence and dissemination of our quality content around the world. We recognized the need to work more closely with our library customers and, to that end, established a dedicated library sales team. Beverly Geer, Library/Consortia Sales Manager for the central U.S. territory, is part of this team and is profiled in this edition of the Newsletter.

As SAGE continues to grow in size and reach, we look forward to our ongoing communications and collaboration with the library community, so together we can explore new ways and technologies to improve access to research. We hope you enjoy this winter 2007 edition of the SAGE Librarians’ Newsletter and, as always, look forward to any feedback you may have.

We hope you enjoyed the 2007 American Library Association Midwinter meeting in Seattle, and we thank you for visiting us at the SAGE booth. We also thank all who entered our drawing to win five online journal subscriptions and an encyclopedia or handbook for your institution.

We are pleased to announce the winning institution is Southern Illinois University! Congratulations to Meseret Gebremichael, Business Reference Librarian, for winning on behalf of his institution.

SAGE is committed to supporting the librarian community in various ways. In 2006, SAGE became an official ALA Library Champion. Library Champions are among the American Library Association (ALA)'s greatest corporate supporters, with over 90% of their dues going to support library advocacy. SAGE's publishing philosophy is that engaged scholarship lies at the heart of any healthy society, and we are honored to further this vision as a Library Champion.

SAGE also sponsors several library events, conferences, and divisions of library associations. Some of these have included:

• ACRL Oregon & Washington Joint Fall Conference
• Amigos Member Conference
• California State University Northridge Faculty Retreat
• Electronic Resources and Libraries Conference
• HELIN Consortium Annual Conference
• Michigan Library Association Annual Conference
• PALINET Consortium Vendor Fair
• SCELC Vendor Fair
• Special Library Association's Biomedical and Life Sciences Division
• Transborder Library Forum

In addition, we provide six annual travel grants through the Association for Library Collections and Technical Services (ALCTS), a division of ALA, making it possible for library support staff to attend the ALA Annual Conference each summer. The grants, up to $1,000 each, help cover related expenses, including airfare, three nights of hotel lodging, and conference registration for each recipient.

In January 2007, SAGE showed its commitment to the strategic importance of Asia as a major component of its global academic and professional publishing business by inaugurating its India office into the global group and opening its new Singapore office, making it the Asia-Pacific headquarters. For more detailed information, the original press release can be read here.

In addition, SAGE has partnered with EMpact Sales™ (EMpact), the publisher representation group within the EBSCO Information Services division. Under the agreement, EMpact will represent SAGE electronic products to libraries in Latin America, the Caribbean, Australia, New Zealand, South Korea, Taiwan, and Hong Kong. EMpact will work with libraries in these countries to promote SAGE online product offerings, including SAGE Premier; SAGE Scientific, Technical, and Medical Packages; the award-winning SAGE Full-Text Collections; and the new SAGE Deep Backfile Package. To learn more about SAGE’s partnership with EMpact, read the complete press release.

• Electronic Resources & Libraries Conference—Atlanta, GA (February 22-24, 2007)
• Bibliostar—Milan, Italy (March 15-16, 2007)
• Leipzig Bibliothekarstag—Leipzig, Germany (March 19-21, 2007)
• Association of College & Research Libraries—Baltimore, MD (March 29-April 1, 2007)
• Texas Library Association Conference—San Antonio, TX (April 11-14, 2007)
• United Kingdom Serials Group—University of Warwick, UK (April 16-18, 2007)
• INFO 2007—Tel-Aviv, Israel (April 30-May 2, 2007)

In order to fully meet the various content needs of different types of libraries, SAGE is now offering new journal packages. The following packages are now available and the journals within them are accessible on the SAGE Journals Online platform, with backfile to 1999.

SAGE Humanities and Social Science Package
Consists of 366 journals in the humanities and social science fields.

SAGE Scientific, Technical, and Medical Packages
SAGE publishes over 140 journals in Science, Technology, and Medicine. The following packages are now available:

• Science, Technology, and Medicine (all SAGE STM titles): 143 journals
• Health Sciences and Nursing (incorporates the 48 titles in Clinical Medicine below): 107 journals
• Clinical Medicine: 48 journals

 For more information, visit www.sagepub.com/librarians.

The SAGE Full-Text Collections, SAGE’s award-winning, discipline-specific research databases, are now available on SAGE Journals Online, SAGE’s online journal delivery platform. The press release with more information can be read here.

Libraries currently subscribing to the SAGE Full-Text Collections on the CSA Illumina platform are invited to have trial access to the SAGE Full-Text Collections on the SAGE Journal Online platform for three months. If you are interested in a trial of the SAGE Full-Text Collections on the SAGE Journals Online platform, please contact your SAGE regional account representative.

For more information:
Read the original press release.
See a demo.
Visit the Frequently Asked Questions page.

If your library does not subscribe to the SAGE Full-Text Collections and you would like more information, click here to view the brochure or email sagecollections@sagepub.com for pricing information.

Education: A SAGE Full-Text Collection—a discipline-specific, research database from SAGE and participating societies—has been included in the Choice 2006 Outstanding Academic Titles list. The Collection, which includes 33 peer-reviewed journals, many of which are ranked in the Thomson Scientific Journal Citation Reports®, offers access to deep backfile back to volume 1, issue 1. Among the prestigious journals included in this Collection are the six journals of the American Educational Research Association. The Collection is available on SAGE Journals Online and on the CSA Illumina platform.

To see a list of journals included in this Collection, visit www.sagefulltext.com/education.

For general information about the SAGE Full-Text Collections, visit www.sagefulltext.com.

If you are interested in pricing information or a trial, please email sagecollections@sagepub.com.

As of January 1, 2007, the following western U.S. library consortia now have access to over 400 SAGE journals via SAGE Premier:

• Greater Western Library Alliance (GWLA)
• Orbis Cascade Alliance
• Statewide California Electronic Library Consortium (SCELC)
• Systemwide Electronic Information Resources (SEIR)
• Utah Academic Library Consortium (UALC)

To learn about our offerings to library consortia, visit www.sagepub.com/consortia.

SAGE is pleased to announce that, to date, over 309,000 articles have been digitized as part of our SAGE Deep Backfile Digitization Project. SAGE began digitizing journals back to volume 1, issue 1, in March 2006 and the project is currently 85% complete.

We are currently offering the deep backfile for lease or purchase on a title-by-title basis. As SAGE anticipates the digitization process will not be fully complete until spring 2007, early adopters of the backfile lease option for individual titles will be offered a special introductory discount rate. For more information, visit www.sagepub.com/backfile. For pricing information, please email backfilesales@sagepub.com.

The entire SAGE Deep Backfile Package of 301 journals is also available for lease or purchase. In addition, the deep backfile is being added to the SAGE Full-Text Collections, SAGE’s discipline-specific research databases, which are available on SAGE Journals Online and on the CSA Illumina platform.

Below are the top 20 most-downloaded journals on SAGE Journals Online (based on full-text article downloads) from January to December 2006.

1. The American Journal of Sports Medicine
2. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin
3. Journal of Interpersonal Violence
4. Nursing Science Quarterly
5. Human Relations
6. The Journal of Clinical Pharmacology
7. Qualitative Health Research
8. Journal of Travel Research
9. Theory, Culture & Society
10. Media, Culture & Society
11. The Diabetes Educator
12. Communication Research
13. Violence Against Women
14. American Behavioral Scientist
15. Western Journal of Nursing Research
16. Journal of Transcultural Nursing
17. The ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science
18. Journal of Human Lactation
19. International Journal of Offender Therapy and Comparative Criminology
20. Sociology

We are pleased to provide you with our new online 2007 Catalog of Journals. SAGE now publishes over 470 journals across the social and behavioral sciences, humanities, and in science, technology, and medicine. To view the catalog online, click here.

To find information about changes to our journals program, including the addition of 28 new titles in 2007, please click here or visit our Subscription Administration page on the SAGE Librarians’ Site.

We are pleased to introduce Beverley Geer, who joined SAGE as Library/Consortia Sales Manager for the Central Territory in May 2006. Her responsibilities include selling products such as SAGE Premier, SAGE Full-Text Collections, eReference, and Backfile to libraries and consortia, working closely with librarians, and keeping them informed of new and improved offerings and services.

Based in San Antonio, Texas, Beverley brings a wealth of library and serials experience to SAGE. Prior to joining SAGE, she spent three years as Collection Development Manager (South) for YBP Library Services where she was responsible for sales activity for products/services including approval plans, continuation services, monographs, technical service workflow solutions and electronic services. Prior to YBP, Beverley was the Marketing and Sales Representative for BioOne, an aggregator of bioscience research journals, as well as Project Manager for both Questia Media and Endeavor Information Systems. She also possesses 25 years of extensive experience working within the academic library profession. Positions Beverley has held include Associate University Librarian for Technical Services at the University of Texas-El Paso, Head Cataloger at Trinity University, and Head of the Copy Cataloging Section at The Ohio State University. Beverley is a member of the American Library Association, ALA's Association for Library Collections and Technical Services division (where she served as chair of the Serials Section in 2000), and the North American Serials Interest Group, where she served as president in 1997-1998. She is the author of numerous publications and has delivered many presentations and workshops of interest to the research library community. She earned both her B.A. (English) and Master's in Library Science at the University of Oklahoma. Lastly, she has served as Associate Editor of Serials Review since 1997.

Any success I have in sales can be attributed to my background in library technical services where our goal was to provide service and materials to our customers—the university faculty, staff, and students," says Beverley. "I believe that we in sales are consultants, advisors, and partners to librarians. As Alison Roth aptly put it in a previous edition of the Newsletter, my library visits concentrate on determining what a library needs in the way of content and services.

"I am very impressed with SAGE’s enthusiasm for and commitment to providing excellent content and good service to libraries. Working with Mark Kendall, the rest of the Sales Team, Marketing, and our library colleagues, I hope we can devise even better and more innovative ways to market, package, and sell content."

SAGE is pleased to announce the launch of SAGE eReference in January 2007.
To celebrate, we are offering free trials of our new online encyclopedias for a limited time. Email librarysales@sagepub.com with your choice of one of the following titles that are available for a trial:

• Encyclopedia of Public Relations
• Encyclopedia of Juvenile Justice
• Encyclopedia of Health Care Management

Once set up for a trial, you will be able to enjoy this free online encyclopedia for one full year!

The following encyclopedias will be available in print and via SAGE eReference:

Encyclopedia of Law and Society: American and Global Perspectives   
Authored by: David Clark, Willamette University 
April 2007; ISBN: 0-7619-2387-X; $395.00; 1,400 pages

Encyclopedia of Activism and Social Justice
Edited by:
Gary L. Anderson, New York University 
Kathryn G. Herr, Montclair State University
April 2007; ISBN: 1-4129-1812-X; $495.00; 1,500 pages  

Encyclopedia of Health and Aging
Edited by: Kyriakos S. Markides 
April 2007; ISBN: 1-4129-0949-X; $150.00; 584 pages

JUST PUBLISHED!
The SAGE Handbook of Research in International Education
Edited by:
Mary Hayden, University of Bath
John Jeff Thompson, IB Research Unit, University of Bath
Jack Levy, George Mason University
January 2007; ISBN: 978-1-4129-1971-5; $130.00; 520 pages

COMING IN APRIL
Handbook of Ethnography
Edited by:
Paul A. Atkinson, Cardiff University
Sara Delamont, Cardiff University
Amanda Jane Coffey, Cardiff University
John Lofland, University of California, Davis
Lyn H. Lofland, University of California, Davis
April 2007; ISBN: 978-1-4129-4606-3; $56.95; 510 pages

COMING IN MAY
Handbook of Organizational and Managerial Wisdom
Edited by:
Eric H. Kessler, Pace University
James R. Bailey, George Washington University
May 2007; ISBN: 978-1-4129-1561-8; $125.00; 624 pages

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:

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

Below are your regional sales contacts for licensing agreements (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 contact your local representative below:

For quotes in Canada, South and Central America, please contact Mark Kendall, Executive Director of Library and Consortia Sales.

For Asia and Australasia, please contact Rosalia de Garcia, Director of Consortial/Library Sales & Marketing, Asia-Pacific.

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