Sage Publishing

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Sage Publishing
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StatusActive
Founded1965 (1965)
Founder
Country of originUnited States
Headquarters location Thousand Oaks, California
DistributionWorldwide
Key people Tejeshwar Singh
Publication typesAcademic books, journals, reference and library products
Nonfiction topicsSocial science, science, medicine, humanities, technology
Imprints Corwin, CQ Press, Learning Matters, Talis Group, Lean Library and Adam Matthew
Official website sagepub.com OOjs UI icon edit-ltr-progressive.svg

Sage Publishing, formerly SAGE Publications, is an American independent academic publishing company, founded in 1965 in New York City by Sara Miller McCune and now based in the Newbury Park neighborhood of Thousand Oaks, California.

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Sage Publishing has offices located across North America, Europe, and the Asia Pacific region. In North America, Sage Publishing has offices in Los Angeles, Washington DC, and Toronto. The European operations are headquartered in London, United Kingdom. In the Asia Pacific region, Sage Publishing has established offices in Melbourne, Australia, India and Singapore.

It publishes more than 1,000 journals, more than 800 books a year, [1] reference works and electronic products covering business, humanities, social sciences, science, technology and medicine. SAGE also owns and publishes under the imprints of Corwin Press [2] (since 1990), CQ Press [3] (since 2008), Learning Matters [4] (since 2011), and Adam Matthew Digital (since 2012). [5]

History

World headquarters, Newbury Park neighborhood of Thousand Oaks, California Sage Publications Headquarters Newbury Park.jpg
World headquarters, Newbury Park neighborhood of Thousand Oaks, California

SAGE was founded in 1965 in New York City by Sara Miller (later Sara Miller McCune) [6] with Macmillan Inc. executive George D. McCune as a mentor; [7] the name of the company is an acronym formed from the first letters of their given names. [7] SAGE relocated to Southern California in 1966, after Miller and McCune married; McCune left Macmillan to formally join the company at that time. [7] Sara Miller McCune remained president for 18 years, shifting to board chairmen in 1984 (and still retains the title of executive chairman). The couple continued to develop the company together until George McCune's death in 1990. [8]

In 2008, SAGE along with two other companies, sued Georgia State University for alleged copyright infringement due to faculty providing excerpts of materials to students. [9] The case concluded in 2020 with the publishing companies losing. [9]

In 2018, SAGE reported a mean 2017 gender pay gap of 13.1% for its UK workforce, while the median was 10.3%. [10]

In 2018, SAGE acquired Lean Library, a browser extension and discovery service, [11] which then faced opposition by part of the academic community for being owned by a for-profit, as opposed to open data, open source and non-profit products like Unpaywall which facilitates usage of open access works. [12]

OASPA membership

SAGE Publishing was a founding member of the Open Access Scholarly Publishers Association (OASPA) when it was established in 2008. [13] In November 2013, OASPA reviewed SAGE's membership after the Journal of International Medical Research accepted a false and intentionally flawed paper created and submitted by a reporter for the journal Science as part of a "sting" to test the effectiveness of the peer-review processes of open access journals (see Who's Afraid of Peer Review? ). [14] SAGE's membership was reinstated at the end of the six month review period following changes to the journal's editorial processes. [15]

Lawsuits

In September 2024, Lucina Uddin, a neuroscience professor at UCLA, sued Sage Publishing along with five other academic journal publishers in a proposed class-action lawsuit, alleging that the publishers violated antitrust law by agreeing not to compete against each other for manuscripts and by denying scholars payment for peer review services. [16] [17]

Trading Name

Sage is a trading name of

Acquisitions

SAGE has acquired a number of other companies, including:

Publications

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References

  1. ↑ "Welcome to SAGE". UK.SagePub.com. SAGE Publications. Archived from the original on April 6, 2016. Retrieved April 2, 2016.
  2. ↑ "SAGE Imprints". SAGE Imprints Page. SAGE Publications. Archived from the original on 4 March 2007. Retrieved May 1, 2012.
  3. ↑ "Sage Publications USA acquires CQ Press from Times Publishing Co — May 30, 2008 - M&A Deal Snapshot". AlacraStore.com. Archived from the original on March 18, 2012. Retrieved August 8, 2010.
  4. ↑ "Sage acquires Learning Matters". The Bookseller. Archived from the original on January 7, 2014. Retrieved April 13, 2012.
  5. ↑ Verma, Henrietta (October 11, 2012). "SAGE Acquires Adam Matthew". Library Journal Reviews. Media Source Inc. Archived from the original on October 18, 2017. Retrieved November 19, 2018.
  6. ↑ "Sara Miller McCune: Executive Profile & Biography". Bloomberg.com. Archived from the original on November 17, 2018. Retrieved 2018-01-08.
  7. 1 2 3 "The SAGE Story" (PDF). StudySites.SAGEpub.com. SAGE Publishing. Archived (PDF) from the original on November 19, 2018. Retrieved November 19, 2018.
  8. ↑ "In Memoriam George D. McCune 1924–1990". Journal of Conflict Resolution. 34 (4): 587. December 1, 1990. doi:10.1177/0022002790034004001. S2CID   220985633.
  9. 1 2 Albanese, Andrew (2020-10-02). "Publishers Escape Fee Award as GSU E-Reserves Case Finally Ends". Publishers Weekly. Archived from the original on 2020-11-06. Retrieved 2021-07-02.
  10. ↑ Onwuemezi, Natasha (Mar 28, 2018). "Four more academic publishers reveal gender pay gaps". The Bookseller. Archived from the original on 2019-08-11. Retrieved 2019-08-11.
  11. ↑ Ferguson, Christine L. (2019). "Leaning Into Browser Extensions". Serials Review. 45 (1–2): 51–56. doi:10.1080/00987913.2019.1624909. S2CID   196180087. Archived from the original on 2023-01-27. Retrieved 2023-01-27.
  12. ↑ Angelaki, Maria (2019-10-21). "Searching Open Access: steps towards improving discovery of OA in a less than 100% OA world". Unlocking Research. Archived from the original on 2020-07-19. Retrieved 2020-04-25. One area of concern is the ownership of Lean by SAGE Publications, in contrast to the ownership say of Unpaywall as a project of the open-source ImpactStory, and what this means for users' privacy. The concerns are shared by other libraries implementing Lean.
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  14. ↑ Malakoff, David (November 11, 2013). "Open-Access Group Sanctions Three Publishers After Science 'Sting'". Science Insider . American Association for the Advancement of Science. Archived from the original on October 14, 2018. Retrieved April 23, 2014.
  15. ↑ Shaffi, Sarah (April 29, 2014). "OASPA reinstates Sage membership". The Bookseller . Archived from the original on October 14, 2018. Retrieved April 29, 2014.
  16. ↑ Scarcella, Mike (2024-09-13). "Academic publishers face class action over 'peer review' pay, other restrictions". Reuters . Archived from the original on 2024-09-14. Retrieved 2024-09-15.
  17. ↑ Abdur-Rahman, Sulaiman (2024-09-13). "'Illegal Conspiracy'?: EDNY Antitrust Class Action Challenges Publishers' Unpaid Peer Review Rule" . New York Law Journal . Archived from the original on 2024-09-13. Retrieved 2024-09-15.
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