Publishing Program for Societies and Associations

Reach New Heights
 

Unparalleled Online Visibility

Increased online accessibility and visibility are critical to the future success of your journal. Our journals are hosted on the award-winning SAGE Journals Online, developed in association with HighWire Press.

Join an online community of more than 1,100 journals—Your journal will be connected to more than 500 SAGE journals plus 615 non-SAGE titles on HighWire Press, which hosts many of the world’s most-cited journals. Your journal will receive exposure through free reference linking to the full text of these 1,100 journals, which will give your publication unparalleled profile and visibility.

Drive online usage with cutting-edge features—With HighWire, we continually develop unique features on SAGE Journals Online that maximise the user experience and help us to significantly increase usage. In 2007, we increased article downloads by more than 80% across our platform.

Visit SAGE Journals Online to see the first-rate research published by SAGE and our partnering societies. For a complete list of all journals available on the HighWire Press platform, visit http://highwire.stanford.edu.
 
Innovative features on SAGE Journals Online:

  • RSS feeds
  • PDA downloading
  • Streaming video
  • Podcasting
  • Email article to a friend
  • Social bookmarking to sites such as Digg and Del.icio.us
  • Enhanced search and navigation
PSP Award 

Intelligent Sales & Marketing

Your journal will grow in reach and influence as a result of SAGE’s global sales and marketing capabilities. We understand that different journals have different needs and that market environments are dynamic and constantly changing. Managed from our offices in North America, Europe, India, and Asia-Pacific, local market intelligence informs our global efforts. You will benefit from SAGE’s experienced and focused sales and marketing teams who will deliver well thought out strategies that exploit the best opportunities. Through our targeted efforts, we will

  • Optimise impact and worldwide visibility of your journal and organisation
  • Maximise revenues through subscriptions, consortia sales, and licensing
  • Increase worldwide access and usage of your journal’s content
  • Attract high-quality content from the best authors 
To achieve these goals, we harness a full suite of sales and marketing tools, including email and web marketing, direct mail, conference displays, publicity, and telemarketing.
 

Complementary Custom Publishing

In addition to publishing peer-reviewed journals, we also work with societies to create made-to-order controlled circulation magazines and member newsletters. We continually study publications in the market, as well as trends in design, and we assess how other organisations present themselves so we can offer you a distinctive product that complements your ideas and goals. Our mission is to help reinforce your brand and identity and develop additional revenue streams.
 

World-Class Editorial Expertise

We are a leader in providing superior tools and services to editors and editorial staff. We want your editors and authors to truly feel SAGE is their natural home. With our editorial services, you will benefit from the following:

  • Collaboration with your editorial teams to publish the best possible content, optimising readership and citations.
  • Intuitive editorial and production systems, including online manuscript submission and peer review via SAGETRACK (powered by ScholarOneTM's Manuscript CentralTM), which offers editors and authors a seamless process from paper submission to print and online publishing.
  • Author Gateway, which provides current and prospective authors with article submission guidelines, permissions information, resources for promoting their research to maximise readership, and much more.

Industry-Leading Production & Manufacturing

We have developed a highly refined and flexible editorial production process that incorporates multiple quality control checks, including high-quality copyediting and proofreading. Our processes are streamlined to ensure efficiency, and we publish on schedule 100 percent of the time when content arrives on schedule. You can be assured you will work with experienced Production Editors that are dedicated to delivering fast, high-quality publications.