FW: Statement from Sage Rick Anderson 07 Aug 2002 16:17 UTC
Carol Richman at Sage asked that I forward the following note to SERIALST. ------------- Rick Anderson Director of Resource Acquisition The University Libraries University of Nevada, Reno "I'm not against the modern 1664 No. Virginia St. world. I just don't think Reno, NV 89557 everything's for sale." PH (775) 784-6500 x273 -- Elvis Costello FX (775) 784-1328 rickand@unr.edu -----Original Message----- From: Richman, Carol [mailto:Carol.Richman@sagepub.com] Sent: Tuesday, July 30, 2002 3:12 PM To: 'Rick Anderson' Subject: RE: Statement from Sage Hi Rick, I was wondering if you would mind posting another message for SAGE publications on SERIALST. Here is the information: SAGE Publications would like to further clarify its position on its online publishing program: The following is a summary of facts relating to Sage's recent decision with respect to future participation in the ProQuest Information and Learning databases and the EBSCOhost database. 1. SAGE's database licensing contracts with both ProQuest and EBSCO expire at the end of 2002, and we have informed both firms that we will not renew these agreements. We have for several years been concerned about the impact of database aggregations on our subscription business, and recent research confirmed that we should plan now to discontinue participating in them. Because of this long held concern, our agreements with ProQuest and EBSCO have for several years been one-year, renewable contracts. 2. Although we have notified both firms of our election not to renew, our agreements allow both firms to continue to sell our content until the end of 2002, and to fulfill any active subscriptions until the end of 2003. In short, Sage has taken no action that has any immediate effect on access to its content. 3. ProQuest is honoring the intent of Sage's agreement with them, and has announced that Sage journals will continue to be available in the ProQuest databases through 2003. ProQuest has also announced that it will continue to index and abstract Sage journals beyond December 2003, in recognition of the journals' importance in their respective subject areas. 4. EBSCO has placed information on its Website indicating that Sage journals are "dropped" from EBSCOhost products. We have advised EBSCO's senior management of our concerns with respect to this information and related communications with our customers, and have been advised in response that they are researching the facts surrounding the concerns we have expressed. 5. As Sage has already assured its customers, electronic access to Sage journals will continue via our existing arrangements with Ingenta, Swets-Blackwell, Divine, Hans Huber, Minerva, OCLC, HighWire, and EBSCO Online. Thus, institutions subscribing to Sage journals will continue to have electronic access, as we recognize that the availability of electronic content is critical to the academic community. 6. Additionally, we have recently announced an exciting new online product for Sage journals, The Sage Full-Text Collections, to be released in January 2003. The Collections will be subject-specific databases in the areas of Communication Studies, Criminology, Sociology, and Politics and International Relations. Each Collection will contain the full text of journals we publish in that discipline, including a current subscription and up to 20 years of back files with full linking backward and forward. Each Collection will be hosted on a platform enabling key word search functionality, browsing functionality, and reference and citation linking capability. The Collections are designed to be dynamic research tools for students and faculty members in the social sciences. Sage currently plans to release new Collections in new disciplines each year. 7. Sage has not withdrawn its content from the ProQuest or EBSCO databases at this time. Our content will not, however, be available in those databases beyond the end of 2003. > For further information, contact Carol Richman: carol.richman@sagepub.com. > > --- > > > Thanks and best regards, Carol Carol Richman Director of Licensing & Electronic Publishing SAGE Publications 410-327-6808 carol.richman@sagepub.com www.sagepub.com