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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
SAGE Journals Online Usage Reports Compliant With Release 2 of COUNTER
Thousand Oaks, California, London, United Kingdom, and New Delhi, India
(May 30, 2006) - SAGE Publications, publisher of over 400+ scholarly
journals in the social sciences and science, technology, and medicine,
announced today that its online journal delivery platform, SAGE Journals
Online is fully compliant with Release 2, the latest version of the
International COUNTER Code of Practice for Journals and Databases. With
this announcement, librarians can be assured that SAGE is providing
journal usage reports that follow the standards set by the COUNTER Code
of Practice.
An international organization of librarians, publishers, and societies,
the COUNTER provides library administrators, publishers and customers at
subscribing institutions access to credible, regular and consistently
measured usage reports for online content, such as the SAGE Journals
Online platform. The reports conform to an agreed-upon international set
of standards and protocols governing the recording and exchange of
online usage data. Full details on Release 2 of the COUNTER Code of
Practice are available on the COUNTER web site located at
www.projectcounter.org/code_practice.html.
"As a major provider of electronic journals content, SAGE understands
the librarian's need for reliable and robust usage statistics for the
online content they purchase, and knowing how our journals are accessed
also helps us to continually improve our platform's features and
functionality," commented John Shaw, SAGE's Director of Publishing
Technologies. "The COUNTER Code is mutually beneficial for libraries and
publishers, and we are committed to maintaining compliance so our usage
reports always meet the needs of our library and consortia customers."
SAGE Journals Online (http://online.sagepub.com) is powered by HighWire
Press, which offers COUNTER compliant usage reporting. Additionally,
SAGE and HighWire Press are both official members of COUNTER.
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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 spanning
a wide range of subject areas including business, humanities, social
sciences, and science, technology and medicine. SAGE Publications, a
privately owned corporation, has principal offices in Thousand Oaks,
California, London, United Kingdom, and New Delhi, India.
www.sagepublications.com
About COUNTER
COUNTER (counting Online Usage of Networked Electronic Resources) is a
multi-agency, not-for-profit organization whose objective is to develop
and maintain a single, internationally accepted, extendible Code of
Practice that allows the usage of online information products and
services to be measured more consistently. The definitive Register of
COUNTER-compliant vendors is available at the COUNTER website. Only
vendors and usage reports included on this list should be regarded as
being COUNTER compliant.
www.projectcounter.org
About HighWire Press
HighWire Press, a not-for-profit organization that is a division of the
Stanford University Libraries, provides online journal site development
and hosting solutions to the scholarly publishing community. Over the
past eleven years, HighWire has partnered with
over 140 societies, associations, university presses and other scholarly
publishers, to produce the 940+ journal sites currently found on the
HighWire portal.
http://highwire.stanford.edu
CONTACT:
John Shaw
Director of Publishing Technologies
SAGE Publications, Inc.
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