New Look and Enhanced Features and Functionality Coming Soon to SAGE Journals Online

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

***Apologies for cross posting***

For Immediate Release

CONTACT:
John Shaw
Director of Publishing Technologies
SAGE Publications
john.shaw@sagepub.com

New Look and Enhanced Features and Functionality Coming Soon to 
SAGE Journals Online

Thousand Oaks, CA; London, UK; and New Delhi, India (October 19, 
2006) - Continuing its mission to provide online access to its 
journal content as efficiently as possible, SAGE Publications 
announced today that the SAGE Journals Online (SJO) platform is 
being completely updated and enhanced with many new features. The 
newly refined SJO will launch later this fall.

The new enhanced platform will encompass a new look and feel, as 
well as:

* Improved navigation across the entire platform
* Easy-to-locate, site-level quick search function
* Enhanced advanced search options, including "Fielded Boolean Search"
* Refined search possibilities, including search history and saved
   searches
* New "My Tools" tab providing all personalization and alert features in
   one easy-to-find location
* Improved marked citations, including email, print or save option
* RefWorks compatibility
* New and improved contextual "help" system
* Institutional branding on the interface

"As a major publisher of electronic journals," commented John 
Shaw, Director of Publishing Technologies, "SAGE is committed to 
providing both high-quality content and working with librarians 
and users to ensure that our platform is consistently improved 
with new features and functionality. The new enhancements are 
unquestionably a step in that direction."

The new SAGE Journals Online platform, which is powered by 
HighWire Press, provides online access to more than 450 journals 
at the forefront of knowledge, contributing to the disciplines of 
the future, and spanning a wide range of subject areas in 
business, humanities, social sciences, and science, technology, 
and medicine.

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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

A new SAGE Librarians' Site is coming soon! To receive notice via 
e-mail when the site is launched, send an e-mail to 
LibrarianNewsletter@sagepub.com.

Valerie Johns
Senior Marketing Manager
SAGE Publications
valerie.johns@sagepub.com