Sage signs with ingenta for delivery of electronic journals

[Ann Okerson <ann.okerson@yale.edu>]

>From Jane Makoff, Head of Journals Marketing at Sage Publications.
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Press Release  For immediate release: 9th March 2001

Sage Publications signs with ingenta for delivery of electronic journals

Sage Publications has reached an agreement with ingenta, the global
research gateway, to provide electronic access to over 230 Sage journals
published from their London and California offices.

Beginning 12th March 2001 ingenta will be able to provide institutional
subscribers with access to year 2000 back issues and to any newly
published 2001 issues for journals from Sage's London office. Access to
journals from Sage's California office will be available shortly.
 
"At Sage we are committed to providing the highest standards of access to
our journals.  ingenta is a key provider of electronic journal access with
a genuinely international reach and customer base. We believe that the
availability of Sage journals through ingenta offers users the combination
of critical mass and key content through a site of recognised excellence,"
says Stephen Barr, Managing Director, Sage Publications Ltd.

"Multi-disciplinary research is the nature of successful academic and
professional study,"  says Mark Rowse, CEO, ingenta. "We offer users
single-point online access to the best quality research content published
in the world, and publishers a direct channel to millions of potential
customers."

Since making their journals available electronically through OCLC
FirstSearch ECO in 1998, Sage has now reached agreements with five hosting
intermediaries (Ebsco Online, RoweCom Information Quest, SwetsnetNavigator
and now ingenta) ensuring their

journals are easily accessible to the library market through a route of
the library's own choice.

Sage provides online access to all institutional subscribers as part of
their subscription and access is available for all members of the
subscribing site. The subscription fee includes both permanent electronic
access rights to the volume subscribed and temporary rights to articles
from previous volumes (where available) as long as a current subscription
is maintained . The right for subscribing sites to download articles and
make copies for coursepacks and electronic reserve collections, without
payment of a fee or seeking prior permission, is also included as part of
the institutional subscription price.

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About Sage

Sage Publications, one of the world's leading international journal
publishers, is a privately-owned company dedicated to the global
dissemination of information. Sage currently publishes 260 journals across
a wide range of disciplines and professions from their London, California
and New Delhi offices and will be adding a further 24 journals to their
publishing programme over the next two years.

Websites: 
www.sagepub.co.uk
www.sagepub.com

About ingenta

ingenta is the global research gateway serving the online information
needs of over 1.4 million visitors a month. It provides a free online
search service of published content from reliable research sources not
freely searchable elsewhere on the Web and is one of the UK's top 20 Web
services. For publishers of professional and academic periodicals and
journals, it provides a suite of services including data conversion,
secure online hosting and distribution of this material to subscribers and
pay-per-view customers. As well as providing Web users with a broad based
article search and delivery service through www.ingenta.com, ingenta also
develops subject-focused e-communities, built in conjunction with
societies, publishers and university presses.

Website: www.ingenta.com/

For further information contact: 
Jane Makoff, Head of Journals Marketing,
Sage Publications, 6 Bonhill Street, London EC2A 4PU, UK 
Tel: +020 7374 0645 Fax: +020 7374 8741 
Email: jane.makoff@sagepub.co.uk 
Website: www.sagepub.co.uk