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About SAGE Publications

Founded in 1965, SAGE is the world’s leading independent academic and professional publisher. Known for our commitment to quality and innovation, SAGE has helped inform and educate a global community of scholars, practitioners, researchers, and students across a broad range of subject areas. With over 1200 employees globally from principal offices in Los Angeles, London, New Delhi, Singapore, and Washington DC, our publishing programme includes more than 640 journals and over 800 books, reference works and databases a year in business, humanities, social sciences, science, technology and medicine. Believing passionately that engaged scholarship lies at the heart of any healthy society and that education is intrinsically valuable, SAGE aims to be the world’s leading independent academic and professional publisher. This means playing a creative role in society by disseminating teaching and research on a global scale, the cornerstones of which are good, long-term relationships, a focus on our markets, and an ability to combine quality and innovation. Leading authors, editors and societies should feel that SAGE is their natural home: we believe in meeting the range of their needs, and in publishing the best of their work. We are a growing company, and our financial success comes from thinking creatively about our markets and actively responding to the needs of our customers.

SAGE Open: Celebrating 2 years of open access publishing in the Social Sciences

Guest post by Lucy Robinson, Executive Publisher, SAGE UK Last month we celebrated the second birthday of SAGE Open, the world’s first broad-spectrum open access journal for the humanities and social sciences. This coincided with a breakout session I convened … Continue reading

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‘Deliberately formal, purposefully obtuse, and decidedly difficult’: what essays should not be (Part 3)

Guest post by Alex Osmond, author of “Academic Writing and Grammar for Students” In this three part series, Alex Osmond, author of Academic Writing and Grammar for Students), discusses three common issues faced by students in academic writing. Providing helpful … Continue reading

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“Horizon 2020” – EU’s funding mechanism for research and innovation – Where are we now?

Guest post by Michael Galsworthy, Department of Applied Health Research, University College London. Last month the Journal of Health Services Research & Policy published an academic paper regarding the Horizon 2020 programme, the European Commission’s science funding programme, due to … Continue reading

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The Journal of Urban History Celebrates 40 Years of Success

Jessica Costello, Marketing, SAGE US   I recently had the privilege to listen to the current editor of the Journal of Urban History (JUH), David Goldfield, as he shared his journey of starting an academic journal from the ground up … Continue reading

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Announcing Some Changes for SAGE Connection

In 2009 we launched the SAGE Connection blog with the mission to keep you connected with the world of scholarship and give you an insider’s view into the world of academic publishing. We are happy to report that since its launch, … Continue reading

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Early career researcher? Don’t miss our peer review workshop, organized by Sense about Science

By Mithu Lucraft, PR Manager SAGE passionately supports the advancement of scholarship. Since 1965 when our founder Sara Miller McCune signed our first journal, Urban Affairs Review, we have built publishing partnerships with many of the world’s leading scholarly societies, … Continue reading

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Primary Sources Appear with a Click

By Melissa Crowley, Journals Marketing Manager It wasn’t that long ago that if you wanted to use primary sources in your research, your choices were largely limited to fighting with the microfiche machine or traveling to far corners of the globe to … Continue reading

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“It’s true that some people’s reading habits are changing, though nothing beats the simple beauty and utility of a book for me”

To mark the first birthday of the LSE Impact Blog, the LSE Review of Books is holding an awards ceremony on 16 May 2013 to recognise the hard work of our contributors and to thank all parties involved in helping … Continue reading

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‘Deliberately formal, purposefully obtuse, and decidedly difficult’: what essays should not be (Part 2)

Guest post by Alex Osmond, author of “Academic Writing and Grammar for Students” In this three part series, Alex Osmond, author of Academic Writing and Grammar for Students, discusses three common issues faced by students in academic writing. Providing helpful … Continue reading

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Welcome International Journal!

We are delighted to announce that we have been selected by the Canadian International Council (CIC) and the Bill Graham Centre for Contemporary International History (CCIH) to publish Canada’s pre-eminent journal of global policy analysis, International Journal. SAGE has a well … Continue reading

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