SAGE Celebrates Open Access Week 2021
Find a route to publishing Open Access with our flexible options
This year’s International Open Access Week to be held October 25-31 launches with the Theme “It Matters How We Open Knowledge: Building Structural Equity.”
This 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. See the full OA Week announcement.
SAGE celebrates Open Access Week 2021 and supports this urgent need for open research practices in scholarship through our continued work on providing tools and resources to guide and support the research community, providing transparent information on funding for authors as well as shining a spotlight on our flexible options for publishing Open Access.
We still have work to do to ensure OA routes to publishing are accessible to all and we are passionate about supporting Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion through our publishing activities, partnerships, and company projects.
How SAGE is supporting Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion:
Seeking to make it as simple and straightforward as possible for you to find a route to publishing Open Access with our flexible options on our homepage.
Publishing and amplifying content from diverse, global perspectives, including scholars of color, LGBTQIA+ people, and people with disabilities.
Advocating for social justice by championing emerging disciplines and publishing content that provides evidence of social, economic, health, environmental, and/or other forms of inequity.
Working to increase ethnic diversity and gender diversity on our editorial boards, in peer review and in our author base.
Ensuring that our content and digital platforms are inclusive and accessible, challenging bias and stereotypes.
Working in collaboration with other publishers and organizations such as C4DISC to create a more diverse, inclusive, and equitable academy and publishing industry.
SAGE also has several voluntary, regional, employee-led groups whose aim is to foster a diverse and inclusive workplace. Diversity is one of the cornerstones of a vibrant culture and we are undertaking work to build a SAGE that is more equitable and representative of the communities we serve and of which we are part.
We are here to support our authors advance their research findings through every step of the publishing process. Find out more about how you can access our author services.
We are committed to providing funding and waivers for our authors either as part of one of our Developing World Initiatives, APC discounting, or our Open Access Agreements. See our funding and waivers page for more information.
SAGE has been actively working with national consortia in Europe and elsewhere to develop national-level and institutional open access sales deals, which offer a valid transition to open access in the light of Plan S. Read on and regularly check back to find out if your institution is part of an Open Access agreement, and how this may enable you to publish Open Access.
The pandemic has transformed research dissemination, calling for access to research findings quickly, efficiently, and without pricing barriers. In response to COVID-19 we have created a free collection of the latest medical research from SAGE related to the virus as well as top social and behavioral research to help individuals, communities, and leaders make the best decisions on dealing with the outbreak and its consequences. You can access this content for free.
The work of social and behavioral scientists is crucial in helping to dismantle mechanisms of discrimination, oppression, and violence and create a radically improved society. Our Structural Racism collection shares freely accessible articles to support researchers in future scholarship and amplify their critical work; educators as they discuss the impacts of systemic racism with students; and policymakers and advocates in their fight to make sweeping reform.
More information
Routes to publishing Open Access with SAGE.
International Open Access Week. The official Twitter hashtag for the week is #OAWeek.