SAGE Announces Additional Options for Consortia

["Johns, Valerie" <Valerie.Johns@sagepub.com>]

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

CONTACT:
Tom Taylor
Vice President of Marketing and Sales
SAGE Publications, Inc.
tom.taylor@sagepub.com

SAGE ANNOUNCES ADDITIONAL OPTIONS FOR CONSORTIA

Thousand Oaks, California, and London, United Kingdom (September 26, 2005)
- SAGE listens to its customers, which is one reason why it has enjoyed
four decades of success. Once again, in response to research and feedback
from our market, including discussions with the library community, SAGE is
expanding its offerings to consortia customers.

Expanded and Refined Options:

SAGE has expanded and refined its library consortia offerings, providing
even more choices for SAGE journals content. Designed to provide both
small and large consortia with the content needed to meet each of their
individual libraries' needs, SAGE will now offer all of the following
purchasing options:

* SAGE Premier Collection provides access to the 400+ SAGE journal titles
in the social sciences, humanities, medicine, engineering, and physical
and life sciences, with a backfile to 1999 (for consortia wanting access
to all of SAGE's peer-reviewed journals). The SAGE Premier Collection will
be available only on the HighWire platform.

* SAGE Full-Text Collections, the ten popular discipline-specific
databases, include backfiles extending up to 57 years. The SAGE Full-Text
Collections are available only on the CSA Illumina platform.

* SAGE Collections Plus includes all ten SAGE Full-Text Collections plus
the SAGE titles not included in the Collections (for consortia research
libraries requiring the Collections' deep backfiles as well as complete
SAGE journals offering). SAGE Collections Plus is a cross-platform
offering with the Full-Text Collections portion available via CSA Illumina
and the additional SAGE titles on HighWire.

"As the world of online journals continues to evolve," says Blaise Simqu,
President and CEO of SAGE, about the changes, "we remain firmly committed
to listening to librarians and consortia to ensure our products and
services meet their needs. These changes reflect that commitment."

About SAGE:

SAGE Publications is a leading international publisher of journals, books
and electronic media for scholarly, educational and professional markets.
Since 1965, SAGE (http://www.sagepublications.com) has helped inform and
educate a global community of scholars, practitioners, researchers and
students. SAGE actively supports Book Aid International, the Journal
Donation Project, the World Health Organization HINARI initiative, and the
International Network for the Availability of Scientific Publications. To
register for the SAGE Librarian E-Newsletter, visit the SAGE Librarian
Site at http://www.sagepub.com/librarians.

About CSA:

CSA (http://www.csa.com) is a worldwide information company that publishes
and distributes 100 bibliographic and full-text databases and journals in
four primary editorial areas: natural sciences, social sciences, arts &
humanities, and technology.