Category Archives: SAGE Connection

The Value in SAGE Major Reference Collections

Posted on June 4, 2013 by SAGE Publications

Guest post by Salvatore Babones, University of Sydney In a world in which nearly all journals are available online, what value is there in buying a hard-bound collection of journal articles? The answer is that the SAGE major works are … Continue reading →

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SAGE’s Global Giving scheme donates to the Good Earth Trust

Posted on May 30, 2013 by SAGE Publications

Following on from the recent SAGE Connection post about SAGE’s donation to the Amani Children’s Home in Tanzania through Global Giving, our annual scheme which supports educational and developmental charities and organisations in the developing world, Barbara Levinson, Personal Assistant … Continue reading →

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Peer Review Best Practices Part IV: Allowing authors to suggest potential reviewers

Posted on May 29, 2013 by SAGE Publications

By Gabriella Massari, Peer Review Editorial Assistant, SAGE US Finding reviewers to review a manuscript that has been submitted to a journal is often a challenging task. Many reviewers refuse because of busy schedules or because they are already in … Continue reading →

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

Posted on May 23, 2013 by SAGE Publications

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)

Posted on May 21, 2013 by SAGE Publications

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?

Posted on May 20, 2013 by SAGE Publications

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

Posted on May 17, 2013 by SAGE Publications

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

Posted on May 17, 2013 by SAGE Publications

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

Posted on May 16, 2013 by SAGE Publications

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

Posted on May 16, 2013 by SAGE Publications

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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