Transcript SAGE Publications
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
Reputation and Relevancy of SAGE Content in Criminology SAGE = 27% 30% 25% 27% 20% 15% 10% 5% 5% 5% 5% 5% 9% 9% 5% 5% 5% 9% 5% 5% 5% 0% A m er S oc C C A an ri us m ad tr in al ia ol ia n C og n A y rim ca in d al Pr J es us s tic e A ss Ta oc yl or Em & er F ra K al d nc lu w is er G A ro up ca de K m ic rim P in ub al is l tik N V or er th w la Pe g es te rg O rn xf am U or on ni d -E v U ni ls v ev Pr ie es r S s ci en ce L td Sw SA ee G t M E ax U w ni el v l L C hi td ca go P re ss U S C ou rt s Publishers
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:
Dual platform complication
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!