SAGE Publishing founder and owner Sara Miller McCune has signed over her voting shares and control of the company to the independent SAGE-SMM Trust. The move takes an irrevocable step towards her long-standing estate plan goal of ensuring SAGE remains an independent company focused on its mission to build bridges to knowledge through educational and research publishing.
Read MoreLean Library, a ‘Technology from SAGE’ company, today releases “Librarian Futures,” a white paper based on a large-scale survey of 4,000 librarians and patrons that examines librarian-patron workflows and relationships. The report finds that while patrons are unaware of the full extent of librarian support (with 77% beginning research discovery outside of the library), more than 80% greatly appreciate librarians and would want the library more deeply embedded in their natural workflows.
Read MoreLean Library, a browser extension from SAGE Publishing that delivers library services into the patron’s workflow, is partnering with TDNet, provider of TDNet Discover, a unified library discovery and content management solution. Together, Lean Library and TDNet will provide libraries with the ability to deliver their library search results to patrons ‘in their workflow’ on academic resources and websites such as Google and Wikipedia.
The partnership will include a direct integration with TDNet Discover to make library search available to users through the Lean Library browser extension, showing relevant search returns from their library wherever they start their search. For example, when a patron is using Google, Google Scholar, publisher sites, or Wikipedia, the extension will also surface relevant results from their library.
Read MoreSAGE Publishing will endow a $100,000 Africology and African American Studies graduate research scholarship to Temple University’s College of Liberal Arts. Known as the SAGE Asante Award, the scholarship will honor Journal of Black Studies’ (JBS) 50 years shaping the scholarly discourse on the Black experience.
Read MoreSponsored by SAGE Publishing, AACSB Report Presents a Roadmap for Impactful Research
AACSB International (the Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business, or AACSB) has released, “Research That Matters: An Action Plan for Creating Business School Research That Positively Impacts Society”. Sponsored by SAGE Publishing, the thought paper includes three common components of impactful research and a five-part plan that business schools can use to produce research that leads to a positive societal impact.
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