SAGE Publishing Partners with The Wikipedia Library to Grant Journal Access to Wikipedia Editors

SAGE Publishing is pleased to announce a partnership with The Wikipedia Library to provide Wikipedia editors full-text access to SAGE’s more than 1,100 journals beginning immediately. The partnership will connect peer-reviewed research to those outside of academia for greater societal understanding and increase research connections.

“We believe that the research in our journals provides the evidence and expertise needed to inform sound policy decisions among decision-makers and promote critical thinking for all,” said Bob Howard, Executive Vice President of Research at SAGE. “Knowing that Wikipedia is a first stop of discovery for the public, students, and even researchers, this partnership will extend the visibility and impact for the work in our journals, including in the social and behavioral sciences which have been at the core of our publishing program since our founding.”

The agreement provides experienced Wikipedia editors free and unlimited access to SAGE’s nearly 2 million peer-reviewed journal articles on its SAGE Journals Platform. The peer-reviewed scientific research can then be used as source material to improve Wikipedia articles across a wide array of topics, including social sciences, medicine, behavioral research, and humanities.

“Wikipedia relies on secondary sources to verify the information included in its articles. With access to peer-reviewed research from SAGE, Wikipedia editors will now be able to write, edit, and improve the world’s free knowledge resource with access to more up-to-date, peer-reviewed research,” said Sam Walton, Senior Product Manager, The Wikipedia Library, at the Wikimedia Foundation. “We welcome partnerships with publishers like SAGE that help enrich knowledge across the information landscape.” 

SAGE journals cover disciplines such as:

  • Arts & Humanities

  • Business Management  

  • Communication & Media Studies

  • Criminology & Criminal Justice   

  • Education

  • Engineering & Material Sciences

  • Health Science

  • Politics & International Relations

  • Psychology

  • Research Methods & Evaluation

  • Science, Technology, & Medicine

  • Sociology

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About SAGE Publishing

SAGE is a global academic publisher of books, journals, and a growing suite of library products and services.

Driven by the belief that social and behavioral science has the power to improve society, we focus on publishing impactful research and enabling robust research methodology. We produce high quality educational resources that support instructors to prepare the citizens, policymakers, educators, and researchers of the future. We publish more than 1,000 journals and 900 new books globally each year, as well as library products and services that include archives, data, case studies, and video. SAGE is majority owned by our founder, Sara Miller McCune, and after her lifetime will become owned by a charitable trust that secures the company’s continued independence. 

About The Wikipedia Library

The Wikipedia Library, a project of the Wikimedia Foundation, provides free access to research materials to improve editors’ ability to contribute content to Wikimedia projects.

The Wikimedia Foundation is the nonprofit organization that operates Wikipedia and the other Wikimedia free knowledge projects. Our vision is a world in which every single human can freely share in the sum of all knowledge. We believe that everyone has the potential to contribute something to shared knowledge, and that everyone should be able to access that knowledge freely.

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