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SAGE Publications

SAGE Publications. Presentation to ICOLC 29 September 2005. About SAGE. Founded 1965 by Sara Miller McCune Independent and privately owned Committed to long term 100% dedicated to scholarly and educational publishing Now publishing over 400 journal titles per annum and 500 new books

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SAGE Publications

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  1. SAGE Publications Presentation to ICOLC 29 September 2005

  2. About SAGE • Founded 1965 by Sara Miller McCune • Independent and privately owned • Committed to long term • 100% dedicated to scholarly and educational publishing • Now publishing over 400 journal titles per annum and 500 new books • Origins in the social sciences; since 1995, we have been entering into STM publishing

  3. Background • From 1998: emerging consortial models for purchasing journal content • The Big Deal: publishers deliver added content and accept pricing restrictions; libraries accept limitations on cancellation plus pay upsell for extra content • Why wasn’t SAGE doing deals?

  4. SAGE’s strategy • 1999: all refereed journals available electronically, initially through Ingenta • 2003: launch of SAGE Full-Text Collections, in conjunction with CSA • 2004: initial offers of SAGE Full-Text Collections to consortia • 2004: launch of SAGE Journals Online in conjunction with HighWire Press • 2004-5: offer of combined ‘Collections Plus’ deal to consortia

  5. Discipline-specific databases, including deep backfiles that extend for up to 57 years and with full current content • High quality functionality in terms of indexing, searching, thesaurus and integration with A&I information • Now available in nine social science disciplines and in materials science

  6. Reputation and Relevancy of SAGE Content in Criminology SAGE = 27% Percent of Titles ranked in JCR Publishers

  7. Feedback on SAGE’s offer Positives: • Option for discipline-by-discipline purchase • Inclusion of deep back file in Collections • Enhanced functionality in Collections

  8. Feedback on SAGE’s offer • “Right from the beginning, our usage statistics have indicated that all four of the Collections are being used more heavily than many of the other databases we have.” A librarian • “Criminology...: A SAGE Full-Text Collection is an excellent, easy-to-use resource for students or professionals involved with criminology. The ease of searching, combined with the quality of the search results, make this resource a must-have for academic institutions.” Choice

  9. Feedback on SAGE’s offer Negatives: • Dual platform complication • Different from standard big deal model

  10. Feedback on SAGE’s offer • “the sort of agreement that we would be looking for from SAGE would be for access to all SAGE titles on HighWire” A librarian • “We saw no point in considering individual Collections because this university covers all of the subjects concerned and it would be invidious to favour some and not others”. A librarian

  11. SAGE’s offer for 2006 Three options: • SAGE Premier • SAGE Full-Text Collections • SAGE Collections Plus

  12. SAGE Premier • Electronic access to all 400 SAGE journal titles from SAGE Journals Online (hosted by HighWire) • Disciplines span social sciences, humanities, medicine, engineering, and physical and life sciences • Includes backfile to 1999

  13. SAGE Full-Text Collections • Discipline-specific databases hosted on the CSA Illumina platform • Including backfiles that extend for up to 57 years • Choice of 10 disciplines

  14. SAGE Collections Plus • Includes all 10 SAGE Full-Text Collections hosted on CSA Illumina • Plus all other SAGE titles not included in Collections, delivered through SAGE Journals Online • Includes deep back file in Collections and back file to 1999 for other titles

  15. Sales process • 2003-4: Consortial relations handled by CSA • 2004-5: initial SAGE journal sales team working with CSA • 2005-6: Parallel track: SAGE journal sales team to talk direct to consortia for big deal-based options; CSA sales team deal with consortia for Collections-based consortial deals as well as selling Collections to individual libraries • 2007 onwards: further expansion of SAGE journal sales team

  16. The future • 2006: continued deepening of back file availability included in the Collections • 2007: deeper back file options also to be available for access from SAGE Journals Online • What other options should SAGE offer? • You tell us!

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