SAGE Publications and CSA sign agreement with Canadian Research Knowledge Network

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SAGE Publications and CSA sign agreement with Canadian Research 
Knowledge Network

Thousand Oaks, California and London, United Kingdom (February 16, 2006)

SAGE Publications and CSA have entered into a three-year 
agreement with Canadian Research Knowledge Network (CRKN) to 
provide CRKN members a comprehensive offering of SAGE titles 
known as SAGE Collections Plus. SAGE Collections Plus combines 
the 10 SAGE Full-Text Collections (through the CSA Illumina 
platform) with the SAGE journals not included in the SAGE 
Full-Text Collections (through the SAGE Journals Online platform 
powered by HighWire Press). The 70 CRKN members represent the 
majority of academic research libraries at universities in 
Canada, thereby providing significant new multi disciplinary 
research material to Canadian academic researchers.

With SAGE Collections Plus, the CRKN consortium will have access 
to 220 SAGE journals accessible on CSA's Illumina platform and 
162 additional SAGE journals accessible on SAGE Journals Online. 
The SAGE Full-Text Collections are award-winning, research 
databases of the most popular peer-reviewed journals published by 
SAGE and participating societies in the social science and STM 
disciplines. The 10 databases include 87,000+ articles, book 
reviews and editorials, with all the original graphics and 
tables, as well as up to 59 years of back issues.

"The CRKN is delighted to incorporate SAGE's outstanding content 
into its scholarly offerings," said Deb deBruijn, CRKN's 
Executive Director. "Our university students, faculty, 
librarians, and administrators will now have research access to 
SAGE's leading social science and STM journals."

About SAGE

SAGE Publications is a leading international publisher of 
journals, books, and electronic media for scholarly, educational, 
and professional markets. Since 1965, SAGE has helped inform and 
educate a global community of scholars, practitioners, 
researchers, and students. www.sagepublications.com

About CSA

Named as an EContent top 100 company for 2005, CSA serves as a guide to
researchers to facilitate their effectiveness by enabling and expediting
discovery, aiding the management and organization of quality
information, and providing tools to assist in its subsequent
dissemination. www.csa.com

About CRKN

The Canadian Research Knowledge Network is a program aimed at 
bolstering the research and innovative capacity of Canada's 
universities.  CRKN's mission is to expand the universe of 
digital research information available to Canada's academic 
community, through the coordinated services and expertise of 
academic libraries.  A follow-up initiative to the successful 
Canadian National Site Licensing Program, CRKN endeavors to 
acquire high quality content while leveraging its national scope 
in working with vendors to meet tight fiscal standards. 
http://researchknowledge.ca

Valerie Johns
Senior Marketing Manager
SAGE Publications
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