SAGE Publishing has opened resources from six titles that received 2020 Textbook Awards from the Textbook & Academic Authors Association (TAA). Materials from the winning texts (see the full list of titles below) support online teaching and learning and include videos, webinars, author interviews, and more. 

A new landing page with the featured resources joins SAGE's other various initiatives to provide free content for the teaching, learning, and research community during the COVID-19 pandemic, including free-to-access courseware, research, and digital textbooks. 

"The wide-spread shift to online courses accelerated by the COVID-19 pandemic has heightened the critical need for high quality digital course materials and customer support," says Michele Sordi, Senior Vice President and Head of US College at SAGE. "We are grateful for TAA's recognition of SAGE's long-standing commitment to high-quality content enhanced by easy-to-use technology, affordability, and accessibility, and a publishing culture that embraces authors and innovative, outcomes-based pedagogy." 

SAGE received four awards in 2018 and seven in 2019 and has received more awards than any other publisher three years in a row. TAA will be hosting a virtual award ceremony on Friday, June 12th to recognize this year's winners. To learn more about the TAA Awards, visit their website. 

The publisher is dedicated to assisting the higher academic community through this difficult time. Those with suggestions for additional ways to support can email them to info@sagepub.com. 

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SAGE's six winning titles are: 

• Textbook Excellence Award 

  • Child Development from Infancy to Adolescence: An Active Learning Approach by Laura E. Levine and Joyce Munsch

  • Introduction to Criminal Justice: Systems, Diversity, and Change by Callie Marie Rennison and Mary Dodge 

  • Business and Professional Communications: KEYS for Workplace Excellence by Kelly M. Quintanilla and Shawn T. Wahl 

• McGuffey Longevity Award 

  • Intelligence: From Secrets to Policy by Mark M. Lowenthal 

• Most Promising New Textbook Award

  • Human Resource Management: People, Data, and Analytics by Talya Bauer, Berrin Erdogan, David Caughlin, and Donald Truxillo 

  • Innovation in Mixed Methods Research: A Practical Guide to Integrative Thinking with Complexity by Cheryl N. Poth 

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Sara Miller McCune founded SAGE Publishing in 1965 to support the dissemination of usable knowledge and educate a global community. SAGE is a leading international provider of innovative, high-quality content publishing more than 1000 journals and over 800 new books each year, spanning a wide range of subject areas. A growing selection of library products includes archives, data, case studies and video. SAGE remains majority owned by our founder and after her lifetime will become owned by a charitable trust that secures the company's continued independence. Principal offices are located in Los Angeles, London, New Delhi, Singapore, Washington DC and Melbourne. www.sagepublishing.com 

The Textbook & Academic Authors Association (TAA) provides professional development resources, events, and networking opportunities for textbook authors and authors of scholarly journal articles and books. Established in 1987 by math author Mike Keedy, TAA is the only national, nonprofit membership association dedicated solely to assisting textbook and academic authors. TAA's name was changed from "Text and Academic Authors Association" to "Textbook & Academic Authors Association" in 2016 to offer a clearer identity for TAA in light of the new meaning of "texting" on smart devices today. 

TAA offers a wide array of resources and benefits to help you navigate your path to writing success. These benefits include publication grants, webinars, a templates and samples resources library, a quarterly print newsletter, and a variety of networking opportunities available through CONNECT, TAA's online member community. 

Contact (media inquiries only)

• PR Inbox: PR@sagepub.co.uk