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Interested in saving valuable time and expense while clearing permissions for third-party content you include in your article? The STM Permissions Guidelines may just help! SAGE is a member of the International Association of STM publishers. This membership allows SAGE authors free reuse of content published by other signatories, within certain parameters.
Read MoreWe are pleased to announce that SAGE is hosting a new How to Get Published Webinar in March. Hosted by SAGE’s Jessica Lipowski and featuring a Q&A session with some of our journals’ most prestigious Editors, the webinar will provide essential guidance for anyone hoping to get published in an academic journal.
Read MoreOver the course of 2019, SAGE has worked to develop a user-friendly Hub platform to display the breadth of our publishing across 17 of our key subject areas. The objective was to create a digital Hub to encourage our customers to find and explore new content across our journals, books, and digital products and services in one place, allowing you to view all of our offerings in a specific discipline. We are incredibly excited to announce that each of our new Discipline Hubs are now live and free to browse here!
Read MoreTo celebrate the launch of our new Journals Blog earlier this year, we are pleased to highlight the Editorial Team’s favourite blog posts from 2019. These popular posts showcase interesting SAGE published research, tips for authors and researchers, as well as industry-focused news and debate
Read MoreFollowing the launch of our new Journals Blog earlier this year, we are pleased to highlight the top 10 posts for 2019. We present these popular posts showcasing topical and impactful SAGE published research, tips for authors and researchers, as well as industry-focused news and debate:
Read MoreGoogle, Google Scholar, and other search engines are the principal ways in which people will find your article online today. The search engine is now the first port of call for researchers and it is of paramount importance for them to be able to find your article in search engines. While SAGE already undertakes many measures to ensure that your work is indexed in all the major search engines, the starting point is the content that you write.
Read MoreThe imminent start of a new year is the ideal time to reflect on the past and set goals for the future. One thing journals should always be tracking is audience engagement. For societies, members are the foundation of the journal audience, and it is essential to strengthen this base over time.
Read MoreAs 2019 comes to a close, now is the perfect time to reflect on what we are grateful for. Many of the tasks related to publishing heavily rely on building successful partnerships, both internally and externally. Naturally, certain goals can be achieved individually, but growing a successful journal does not happen overnight, nor does it fall on the shoulders of just one person. It takes a village.
Read MorePublishing a paper can be confusing and overwhelming, especially if this is your first paper. Don’t worry – here is a guide on what to expect!
Read MoreMany journals are facing a chronic shortage of experts willing to review submissions, and early-career researchers are often seen as an easy solution to this problem. But for researchers at the start of their careers, it can be difficult to know what journals expect from a reviewer.
Read MoreCode has become an integral part of the scientific publishing process, but what happens to it once an article is published? The answer is often “not much.” This is a problem for reproducibility: it can be impossible to replicate a study if you can’t run it in the same way as the original.
Read MoreSecuring a good quality review is now a huge challenge for Editors. With the rise in manuscript submissions, academics are receiving more invitations to review than ever before. As such, it can sometimes take 10 or more invites to even secure one quality review for a manuscript. It can begin to feel like a never-ending cycle of rejection.
Read MoreAbout to submit a research article? Here’s a list of the ethics-related requirements for your manuscript.
Including this information at submission stage is important for maintaining a transparent and well-managed peer review process.
Read MoreNow in its fifth year, Peer Review Week is an annual event that showcases the essential role that reviewers play in the curation and dissemination of academic research. Each year has a theme and this year’s is “Quality in Peer Review”. With research output hitting an all-time high in 2018 the demand on reviewers is more significant than ever. It is therefore vital that the right training, recognition and rewards are in place to ensure that meaningful and helpful peer reviews can be shared with authors.
Read MoreAugust 31st marks the one year anniversary of Advance: a SAGE preprints community and, since the day we launched, preprints have continued to see tremendous growth across the scholarly community. Growth, not just in sheer volume of posted preprints, but also in the understanding of the benefits preprints can have in the scholarly community.
Read MoreSAGE are proud to announce the launch of our new Discipline Hubs!
Read MoreCongratulations, you’ve published your paper! As focus on science communication (scicomm) continues to rise in the academic community, social media is a natural fit for promoting work to the media, public, or policy makers. It also provides a space for open, two-way dialogue. This post will give you a great jump-start in learning to utilize social media to engage the public in your research.
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