Contact: Michael Miyazaki
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For Immediate Release

New Psychology and Education Collections From SAGE Available on IDS

New collections provide Web-based access to nearly 50 fulltext journals

BETHESDA, Maryland, USA (15 July 2004) -- Collections of electronic fulltext journals in education and psychology published by SAGE Publications are now available through the Internet Database Service (IDS) from CSA.

“We are excited to add education and psychology titles to the SAGEFull-Text Collections,” said SAGE Executive Vice President Blaise Simqu. “The SAGE Full-Text Collections are excellent research tools for students and faculty members, and we expect that these new Collections will be welcome additions to many college and university libraries.”

“We are thrilled to be able to offer these collection on IDS,” said Matt Dunie, president of CSA. “These are some of the preeminent journals in psychology and education. They are also a perfect complement to a number of the bibliographic databases available through our service.”

Four other collections of journals in communication studies, criminology, politics and international relations, and sociology published by SAGE Publications are also available on IDS. In addition, the platform hosts a number of bibliographic databases in the areas of education and psychology including ERIC from the U.S. Department of Education and PsycINFO published by the American Psychological Association.

The two new collections add more than 700,000 pages to the existing 1,173,375 pages in the SAGE Full-Text Collections. Each discipline's collection includes the most current issues, as well as back issues, usually going back 20 years. Included titles are among the most popular and most cited journals in their fields. A step beyond previous citations and abstracts databases, the SAGE Full-Text Collections gives users immediate electronic access to:

• Articles with illustrations, graphs, charts, and photographs
• Links from cited references to fulltext articles within the Collections
• Hypertext links from other databases to fulltext articles within the Collections
• Table of contents and articles of individual journals
• Basic and advanced search options, including thesaurus searching
• Enhanced display and printing capabilities
• A customizable service alerting users to new articles in a subject area
• Usage reports

Education: A SAGE Full-Text Collection provides access to more than 5,000 articles appearing in 19 journals published by SAGE and participating societies:

Action Research Active Learning in Higher Education Adult Education Quarterly Educational and Psychological Measurement Educational Management Administration & Leadership Educational Policy Emotional & Behavioral Difficulties European Physical Education Review Journal of Early Childhood Literacy Journal of Early Childhood Research

Arts and Humanities in Higher Education Education and Urban Society Educational Administration Quarterly Journal of Hispanic Higher Education Journal of Research in International Education Journal of Studies in International Education Journal of Teacher Education Theory and Research in Education Urban Education

Psychology: A SAGE Full-Text Collection provides access to more than 13,000 articles appearing in 30 journals published by SAGE and participating societies:

Applied Psychological Measurement Assessment Autism Behavior Modification Behavior & Cognitive Neuroscience Reviews Clinical Child Psychology and Psychiatry The Counseling Psychologist Culture and Psychology Educational and Psychological Measurement Environment & Behavior Family and Consumer Services Research Journal The Family Journal Feminism & Psychology First Language Group Analysis

Group Processes & Intergroup Relations Hispanic Journal of Behavioral Sciences Journal of Adolescent Research Journal of Black Psychology Journal of Career Assessment Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology Journal of Early Adolescence Journal of Humanistic Psychology Journal of Language & Social Psychology Journal of Social & Personal Relationships Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin Psychology of Music Research on Aging School Psychology International Theory & Psychology

SAGE Publications is a leading international publisher of journals, books, and electronic material for academic, educational, and professional markets. Since 1965, SAGE has helped inform and educate a global community of scholars, practitioners, researchers, and students. SAGE Publications, a privately owned corporation, has principal offices in Thousand Oaks ( California, USA), London ( United Kingdom), and New Delhi ( India). SAGE Publications supports Book Aid International, the Journal Donation Project, and the World Health Organisation HINARI initiative. SAGE Publications is a member of CrossRef. For more information, visit www.sagepublications.com .

CSA, a Cambridge Information Group company, is a leading publisher of bibliographic databases and print journals used by more than 4,000 research institutions worldwide. CSA annually publishes more than 700,000 abstracts culled from more than 14,000 sources. Its award-winning Internet Database Service provides Web access to more than 100 bibliographic databases covering major areas of research including materials science, environmental sciences and pollution management, biological sciences, aquatic sciences and fisheries, biotechnology, engineering, computer science, sociology, information technology, art history, political science, and linguistics.

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

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