SAGE Journals Online Wins PSP Award for Best Platform

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

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SAGE Journals Online Wins 2007 PSP Award for Excellence for Best 
Platform

Los Angeles, London, New Delhi, and Singapore (February 11, 2008) 
- SAGE and the Professional and Scholarly Publishing (PSP) 
division of the Association of American Publishers are pleased to 
announce that the SAGE Journals Online (SJO) platform has won a 
2007 PSP Award for Excellence for best platform in the electronic 
publication category.

Judged by peer publishers, librarians, and medical professionals, 
the PSP Award for Excellence recognizes the very best in 
professional and scholarly publishing by bringing attention to 
distinguished books, journals, and electronic content. Each year, 
publishers and authors are recognized at the annual PSP 
conference in Washington for their commitment to pioneering works 
of research and for contributing to the conception, production, 
and design of landmark works in their fields.

SAGE Journals Online, SAGE's online journal delivery platform, 
provides access to more than 480 SAGE journals in the Social 
Sciences and Scientific, Technical, and Medical fields. Developed 
in association with Stanford University's HighWire Press, SJO 
provides premier search technology and enhanced subscription 
options for journal collections.

"Building SJO has been a great opportunity to create an 
abstracting and indexing layer to further customize searches, and 
we've incorporated the extensive taxonomic indexing that SAGE 
provides into the search and browse tools," commented John Sack, 
Director of HighWire Press. "SAGE and HighWire continue to expand 
their partnership in new ways, adding value for the user and the 
librarian."

"SAGE and HighWire have continued to develop SJO since its 
initial launch, adding enhanced, user-friendly features based on 
feedback from faculty, students, and librarians," added John 
Shaw, Director of Publishing Technologies at SAGE. "We 
continually work to provide the best possible user experience, 
and we're so pleased that our efforts have been recognized by 
PSP's award committee."

SAGE received a plaque commemorating the award at a special 
luncheon last week during the PSP Annual Conference in 
Washington, DC.

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SAGE 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. A privately owned corporation, SAGE has principal 
offices in Los Angeles, London, New Delhi, and Singapore. 
www.sagepub.com

HighWire Press, a division of the Stanford University Libraries, 
provides online site development and hosting solutions to the 
scholarly publishing community. Producing the definitive online 
versions of high-impact, peer-reviewed journals and other 
scholarly content in many disciplines since 1995, HighWire has 
partnered with influential societies, university presses and 
other publishers to create a vast database of the finest, fully 
searchable, medical and social science research and literature 
available on the Internet. http://highwire.stanford.edu

The Professional and Scholarly Publishing's (PSP) Awards for 
Excellence recognize the very best in professional and scholarly 
publishing by bringing attention to distinguished books, 
journals, and electronic content, published annually in 28 
disciplines. www.pspcentral.org

For more information, please contact:

Mary Kay Jezzini
SAGE Publicist
212-352-1404
publicity@sagepub.com

Bonnie Zavon
Public Relations Coordinator
HighWire Press-Stanford University
1454 Page Mill Rd. Palo Alto, CA 94304

Valerie Johns
SAGE Journals Marketing
valerie.johns@sagepub.com