SAGE Journals Online Usage Reports Compliant With Release 2 of COUNTER

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

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John Shaw
Director of Publishing Technologies
SAGE Publications, Inc.
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SAGE Journals Online Usage Reports Compliant With Release 2 of COUNTER

Thousand Oaks, California, London, United Kingdom, and New Delhi, 
India (May 30, 2006) - SAGE Publications, publisher of over 400+ 
scholarly journals in the social sciences and science, 
technology, and medicine, announced today that its online journal 
delivery platform, SAGE Journals Online is fully compliant with 
Release 2, the latest version of the International COUNTER Code 
of Practice for Journals and Databases. With this announcement, 
librarians can be assured that SAGE is providing journal usage 
reports that follow the standards set by the COUNTER Code of 
Practice.

An international organization of librarians, publishers, and 
societies, the COUNTER provides library administrators, 
publishers and customers at subscribing institutions access to 
credible, regular and consistently measured usage reports for 
online content, such as the SAGE Journals Online platform. The 
reports conform to an agreed-upon international set of standards 
and protocols governing the recording and exchange of online 
usage data. Full details on Release 2 of the COUNTER Code of 
Practice are available on the COUNTER web site located at 
www.projectcounter.org/code_practice.html.

"As a major provider of electronic journals content, SAGE 
understands the librarian's need for reliable and robust usage 
statistics for the online content they purchase, and knowing how 
our journals are accessed also helps us to continually improve 
our platform's features and functionality," commented John Shaw, 
SAGE's Director of Publishing Technologies. "The COUNTER Code is 
mutually beneficial for libraries and publishers, and we are 
committed to maintaining compliance so our usage reports always 
meet the needs of our library and consortia customers."

SAGE Journals Online (http://online.sagepub.com) is powered by 
HighWire Press, which offers COUNTER compliant usage reporting. 
Additionally, SAGE and HighWire Press are both official members 
of COUNTER.

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About SAGE

SAGE Publications 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. SAGE Publications, a privately owned 
corporation, has principal offices in Thousand Oaks, California, 
London, United Kingdom, and New Delhi, India. 
www.sagepublications.com

About COUNTER

COUNTER (counting Online Usage of Networked Electronic Resources) 
is a multi-agency, not-for-profit organization whose objective is 
to develop and maintain a single, internationally accepted, 
extendible Code of Practice that allows the usage of online 
information products and services to be measured more 
consistently. The definitive Register of COUNTER-compliant 
vendors is available at the COUNTER website. Only vendors and 
usage reports included on this list should be regarded as being 
COUNTER compliant. www.projectcounter.org

About HighWire Press

HighWire Press, a not-for-profit organization that is a division 
of the Stanford University Libraries, provides online journal 
site development and hosting solutions to the scholarly 
publishing community. Over the past eleven years, HighWire has 
partnered with over 140 societies, associations, university 
presses and other scholarly publishers, to produce the 940+ 
journal sites currently found on the HighWire portal. 
http://highwire.stanford.edu

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