** With apologies for cross posting ** New Access Options for Award-Winning SAGE Full-Text Collections Thousand Oaks, CA; London, UK; New Delhi, India; and Singapore (DATE) - SAGE Publications announced today it has developed new sales and additional online access options for its award winning, discipline specific research databases known as the SAGE Full-Text Collections. The details of these announcements are outlined below. SAGE Full-Text Collections on Highwire Press (SAGE Journals Online) and the CSA Illumina platform Starting January 1, 2007, SAGE will now offer its customers a new option for accessing the SAGE Full-Text Collections. Launched in 2003, the 10 discipline-specific SAGE Full-Text Collections have been available exclusively on the CSA Illumina platform. Starting January 1, 2007, SAGE customers will be able to access the SAGE Full-Text Collections on both the CSA Illumina and SAGE Journals Online platforms. To further ensure flexibility of access, the SAGE Full-Text Collections will remain available on the award winning CSA Illumina platform, which provides integrated searching and full-text retrieval amongst similar databases. SAGE and CSA have made special arrangements for an extended grace period for subscriptions due to renew in January 2007. "Flexibility of access options is important to our library customers and users," commented Tom Taylor, SAGE Vice President of Marketing and Sales, "thus we have made the SAGE Full-Text Collections available on SAGE Journals Online (powered by Highwire Press)." SAGE Sales Team In order to meet our customers needs more fully, starting in 2007 the SAGE library sales force, with Regional Managers around the world, will be responsible for selling the SAGE Full-Text Collections, as well as other SAGE online products. To contact the SAGE sales team, please send an e-mail to [log in to unmask] ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ----------------------- About SAGE: SAGE Publications is a leading international publisher of journals, books, and electronic media for academic, educational, and professional markets. Since 1965, SAGE has helped inform and educate a global community of scholars, practitioners, researchers, and students. SAGE Publications, a privately owned corporation, has principal offices in Thousand Oaks, California; London, United Kingdom; and New Delhi, India; and Singapore. www.sagepublications.com About CSA: Named as an EContent "Top 100" company for 2006, CSA specializes in publishing and distributing in print and electronically 100 bibliographic and full-text databases and journals in four primary editorial areas: natural sciences, social sciences, arts & humanities, and technology. MultiSearch, Ulrich's, COS Funding Opportunities, Community of Scholars, and PapersInvited are also available through CSA. CSA has been a leader in publishing and an innovator in the information field for over 30 years. www.csa.com Simon Haggis Senior Journals Marketing Manager - Online Content SAGE Publications 1 Oliver's Yard 55, City Road London EC1Y 1SP, UK Tel: +44 (0)20 7324 8500 Fax: +44 (0)20 7324 8600 SJO: http://online.sagepub.com <http://online.sagepub.com/> Email: [log in to unmask] The new SAGE Journals Online platform is now live - http://online.sagepub.com