Drawing from the journals it publishes, SAGE has opened a curated collection of research related to monkeypox and orthopoxvirus (the genus that includes monkeypox) in an effort to support the global response to the disease. Find the full collection below, with articles curated into two lists, one focused on medical science and one focused on social and behavioral science and the lessons we have learned from other epidemics such as AIDS, COVID, and Zika.
Read MoreSAGE is pleased to announce a new webinar series focused on the academic publishing process. This monthly series will conduct a deeper dive into the journal world, providing expert advice to researchers and authors on how to get published in a peer-reviewed academic journal. The series will also explore other aspects of academic publishing, including how to find a mentor and any relevant costs associated with publishing, among other topics.
Read MoreSAGE’s Research Integrity Group, a global cross-departmental taskforce made up of experts from across the organization, is responsible for monitoring research integrity trends and developing our publication ethics and inclusivity policies, guidelines and workflows to help reduce the risk of bogus research entering the academic record. Tightening up policies and processes and adding in checks throughout the submission, peer review and production processes all help safeguard against attempts to get bogus research published.
In this blog post, Louise Skelding Tattle, Associate Director, Research, and Chair of SAGE’s Research Integrity Group outlines the steps taken by SAGE’s Research Integrity Group to protect the academic record from bogus research.
Read MoreLast year, the SAGE Journals team released a Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) pledge using a framework from the Royal Society of Chemistry’s joint commitment for action on inclusion and diversity. The pledge aims to ensure that SAGE’s identity, values, and animating principles such as our guaranteed independence and our mission of building bridges to knowledge, are incorporated into our DEI work. In this blog post, Martha Avtandilian, Publisher for SAGE's Social Science Journals division and lead of the Research Pillar's Application Stream, and Jessica Lipowski, Publishing Editor on the STM Journals Editorial team, reflect on our DEI pledge for SAGE Journals a year in and looks ahead to new goals to create more inclusive journals publishing at SAGE.
Read MoreAs we mark Autism Acceptance Month, explore our collection of free-to-read resources published by SAGE.
Read MoreWe believe that the social and behavioral sciences can play a key role in deepening our understanding of the present state of the world, including the history and current issues related to the war in Ukraine. Accordingly, we created a free-to-read collection that highlights research related to the Russia-Ukraine war. Topics touch on historical background; issues around information and media, race, ethnicity, and religion; the humanitarian crisis; geopolitics; economic sanctions; and how to move forward.
Read MoreBlack History Month — February in the U.S. — provides an opportunity to both celebrate the Black community’s past contributions and consider the issues and obstacles to equity of today and tomorrow. Research and scholarship is a vital component of this work and is instrumental to creating policies, practices, and procedures that improve lives.
Read MoreSince the digital revolution and the development of modern ground and air transport, Lunar New Year has also evolved with the times. From the digitization of the traditional red envelope of lucky money to the changes in Spring Festival migration caused by mass urbanization, we take a look at how Lunar New Year has changed in modern China.
Read MoreAs part of SAGE’s mission of building bridges to knowledge and commitment to fostering a more inclusive and diverse publishing community, SAGE Journals is adding Plain Language Summaries (PLS), or nontechnical abstracts, as an option authors can add to their articles for select journals participating in the pilot. The summaries will appear wherever abstracts are available (just below the abstract) and are open to all readers. As an initial priority, SAGE’s goal is to add the PLS function to a limited trial of journals that highlight research representing oppressed, marginalized or otherwise silenced communities.
Read MoreWomen’s Health (WHE) is an Open Access journal that publishes multidisciplinary research concerning a woman’s lifespan. The editors welcome health studies regarding races, ethnicities, and genders that have been left out of past medical research.
Read MoreThis collection of resources rounds up blog posts, research and resources related to the COVID-19 pandemic. It includes our Perspectives Blog, the Social Science Bites podcast, and Social Science Space, our online social network.
Read MoreThis collection of resources rounds up blog posts, research and resources related to how-to’s and advice for researchers from 2021. It includes our SAGE Perspectives Blog, webinars, Social Science Space and Methodspace, our online community for social and behavioral research methods.
Read MoreA new special issue in Security Dialogue [LINK] focuses on race and racism in critical security studies. The forum presents diverse contributions to scholarly debates around racism, antiracism and the historical structures of meaning in the field of international relations, security studies, critical security studies, and securitization theory.
Read MoreThis year’s theme highlights the recently released UNESCO Recommendation on Open Science, a call for equitable participation of all producers and consumers of knowledge, of which Open Access is a crucial component. The recommendation, based on recent discussions between the 193 member countries of UNESCO, focuses on the importance of diverse practices, workflows, languages, research topics and research outputs, to fulfil the needs of diverse research communities and to ensure a future of scholarship that is accessible to all.
Read MoreThe Journal of Black Studies (JBS), founded by Afrocentricity scholars Dr. Molefi Kete Asante and Dr. Robert Singleton, is the first journal of its kind to publish interdisciplinary research on the Black American experience. For decades, each JBS article has worked to displace Eurocentric systems of thought and instead emphasize Afrocentric and Pan-African research practices.
Read MoreThe idea of the Journal of Black Studies (JBS) was born in 1968 when a young academic named Molefi Kete Asante approached SAGE founder Sara Miller McCune with an idea for a journal that would respond to the Black studies movement as well as a public call for equality, justice, and nonviolence. At the time there was no comparable journal, and Sara saw this journal as a vital addition to social science scholarship. The first full volume was completed in 1971. (Read the full history of the journal at Social Science Space.)
50 years later, JBS continues to publish research that shapes not only the academic field, but ultimately lived experiences as it provides dynamic and creative analyses of many aspects of the Black experience.
“With the publication of JBS in September 1970, the academy and the field of social sciences had opened a new door into the lived experiences of Africans in America and indeed throughout the African diaspora,” commented Dr. Asante. “This was not to be a field defined simply by the discipline of history but we sought to sustain a ‘full analytical treatment’ of African people.”
We’re celebrating the anniversary with free-to-read JBS articles, a podcast, and video messages, and through the endowment of a new scholarship – the SAGE Asante Award – at Temple University.
Read MoreAt the 2020 Charleston Conference, a funder, publisher, and librarian came together to have a real discussion about the viability of a full – and sustainable – open access (OA) transition. Speakers included Ashley Farley, from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation; Stephen Barr from SAGE; and Elaine Westbrooks, from the University of Chapel Hill, North Carolina libraries. Watch the recording here.
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