Author Archives: Jayne Marks

About Jayne Marks

Jayne is the Vice President of Journals at SAGE in California.

Using social media to drive usage

The award-winning CQ Researcher and CQ Global Researcher have developed a Facebook application and expanded website to make their authoritative content more discoverable by students, faculty and other researchers. Responding to user feedback, these new features aim to improve access … Continue reading

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Announcing a new journal launch

It is not often these days that we are able to announce the launch of a new journal so we are particularly pleased that SAGE will be launching Public Relations Inquiry, edited by  Jacquie L’Etang, Jordi Xifra and Timothy Coombs, in 2012. … Continue reading

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Sociologists get their own SAGE site

We recently launched a new website for our sociology readers and authors, you can find it at: http://sociology.sagepub.com/. We publish more than 70 highly-read and cited journals in sociology and related fields, many of which are owned by societies and … Continue reading

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Working with our local university

  SAGE and Corwin staff recently spent a great day at Californian Lutheran University discussing all  things publishing.  We started the day with a key note talk from one of SAGE’s local authors.  Professor Michalle Mor Barak is at the … Continue reading

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New publication on social networks

Where else would you talk about a new encyclopedia on social networks but on a blog?  SAGE has just published a two-volume encyclopedia that provides a thorough introduction to the wide-ranging, fast-developing field of social networking, a much-needed resource at a time … Continue reading

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Calling for nominations for the Daniel Patrick Moynihan Prize

One of our partner’s the American Academy of Political and Social Science  makes an annual award to recognize the important role of social scientists in the public arena.  Here is their call for nominations for next year’s award: The American Academy of … Continue reading

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New Rules in Mobile Journal Website Design

Last month, we announced the pending release of mobile-optimized websites for all 600+ SAGE journals, with our platform partner, HighWire Press. We are now hard at work to design these sites in a way that will be easier to read … Continue reading

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Now you see it

Much has already been written about the impact of the internet on how we learn and work, but this interview in Inside Higher Education with Cathy N Davidson about her new book Now You See It: How the Brain Science of Attention Will Transform the … Continue reading

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Making search more effective

Searching across a journal platform that has over 600 journals in many different disciplines can be a daunting task.  When we re-launched the SAGE Journals Online (SJO) platform last year, we worked with users to improve our search functionality.  We … Continue reading

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Administrative Science Quarterly to join SAGE

We are very excited to have  been chosen by the Samuel Curtis Johnson Graduate School of Management, Cornell University to publish its journal,  Administrative Science Quarterly (ASQ), beginning this month. ASQ is a top-tier journal that has been on the … Continue reading

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