SAGE Publications

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SAGE Publications

• Presentation to ICOLC
• 29 September 2005

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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

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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 wasnt SAGE doing deals?

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SAGEs 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

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• 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 AI
  information
• Now available in nine social science disciplines
  and in materials science

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Reputation and Relevancy of SAGE Content in
Criminology
SAGE 27
Percent of Titles ranked in JCR
Publishers
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Feedback on SAGEs offer

• Positives
• Option for discipline-by-discipline purchase
• Inclusion of deep back file in Collections
• Enhanced functionality in Collections

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Feedback on SAGEs 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

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Feedback on SAGEs offer

• Negatives
• Dual platform complication
• Different from standard big deal model

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Feedback on SAGEs 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

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SAGEs offer for 2006

• Three options
• SAGE Premier
• SAGE Full-Text Collections
• SAGE Collections Plus

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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!