Contact: Michael Miyazaki
(301) 961-6761 or E-mail: mmiyazaki@csa.com

For Immediate Release

CSA & SAGE Publications Sign Agreement with Canadian Research Knowledge Network

BETHESDA, MD, USA (21 February 2006) - CSA and SAGE Publications have entered into a three-year agreement with the 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 (available through the CSA Illumina platform) with the SAGE journals not included in the SAGE Full-Text Collections (available 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 more than 87,000 articles, book reviews and editorials with original graphics and tables, many including 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 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. CSA specializes in publishing and distributing in print and electronically 100 bibliographic and full-text databases and journals in four primary editorial areas: natural sciences, social sciences, arts & humanities, and technology. A privately held company, CSA is headquartered in Bethesda, Maryland, with offices throughout the U.S. as well as in such locations as Australia, China, Finland, France, Germany, Hong Kong, Japan, Korea, Mexico, Russia and the United Kingdom. Researchers in more than 4,000 institutions in 80 countries use CSA's information resources. CSA has been a leader in publishing and an innovator in the information field for over 30 years. www.csa.com

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 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/

For further information, contact Michael Miyazaki, Marketing Manager, CSA (Tel. +1 301 961 6761 / E-mail: mmiyazaki@csa.com).

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