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 Origins in the social sciences; since 1995, we have been entering into STM publishing

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?

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

 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

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Feedback on SAGE’s offer

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

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

Feedback on SAGE’s offer

Negatives:

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Dual platform complication

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Different from standard big deal model

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

SAGE’s offer for 2006

Three options:  SAGE Premier  SAGE Full-Text Collections  SAGE Collections Plus

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

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

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

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

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!