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SAGE has established a policy for launch journals in order to increase usage and interest in these new, unique titles.
For Individual Libraries
These journals will be freely available to libraries via an IP-registered trial for the first year of publication (volume 1). This will allow you to add the journals to your knowledgebase and make them available to users at your library via searches and your library catalog. This offer includes perpetual access to volume 1.
At SAGE, we take seriously our obligation to ensure readers get to the SAGE content they need as smoothly and effectively as possible wherever their starting point and regardless of their device. We tackle discoverability for our products in 4 key areas: open web discovery, institutional discovery, specialized database discovery, and across-SAGE discovery.
Authors can make their article open access either via the gold OA publishing or green OA archiving as described below.
A number of funders require research articles which have resulted from their funding to be made open access, including RCUK, NIH and Wellcome Trust. Sage helps authors comply with these mandates either via the gold open access publication route or green open access archiving.
Please check with your funders if there is a mandate to publish your research open access and the criteria for compliance. These resources may be helpful:
Open access publication is a means for researchers to be compliant with their funders’ mandates. Sage’s Open Access Prepaid Account (OAPA) allows institutions to support their faculty to publish research open access.
Find out more about Sage’s open access initiatives by browsing reports, blogposts and presentations listed below.
A long-term advocate of sustainable open research, we provide easy and innovative publishing routes for authors seeking to build momentum and increase their reach. Join the thousands of academics across the globe who choose us to share their research quickly and widely, and benefit from:
All licenses require that re-use complies with the following terms:
Author(s)
Article Title
Journal
DOI
Volume (if applicable)
Issue (if applicable)
Page numbers (if applicable)
Date of publication
SAGE as the original publisher
A link to the original article as published on SAGE Journals (where practicable)
Corresponding Authors who reside in the countries described by the Research4Life program (both Group A and Group B) publishing in one of Sage’s gold open access journals will automatically receive a full APC waiver without needing to take any action. The waiver will be applied based on the Corresponding Author affiliation in the Sage Open Access Portal.
A number of funders require research articles which have resulted from their funding to be made open access. Sage helps authors comply with these mandates either via the gold open access publication route or green open access archiving.
Please check with your funder if there is a mandate to publish your research open access and the criteria for compliance. There are other resources which may also be helpful:
Authors can make their articles Open Access by archiving their article at no charge via the Green route.
Authors who have published in a subscription journal can do this by depositing the version of the article accepted for publication (version 2) in their own institution’s repository.
The following is a complete list of SAGE journals listed by alphabetic order. Click on each letter then journal title to link to the individual rate card.