Working together navigating the changing scholarly landscape Rosalia da Garcia

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Working Together: Navigating the Changing Scholarly

Landscape

Rosalia da GarciaConsortia/Library Sales & Marketing Director: Asia-

Pacific





‘SAGE is one of the leading publisher to provide high quality social sciences content which was highly recommended content by

researchers within CASS’Prof.Yang Peichao Library Director, Chinese Academy of Social Science








Competing demands of libraries, societies, and

scholars● Libraries

• High quality content fairly priced

● Societies• Wide dissemination of content• Reliable revenue stream to fund other scientific

activities

● Scholars• Unfettered access to information when, where and

how they want it delivered




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● 1st publisher to undertake this pilot project with US College Books

● This partnership will grant Coursera instructors the option to supplement their video lectures with rigorously-developed, pedagogical content from SAGE at no cost to their students.

● SAGE will provide Coursera students with online access to SAGE content for the duration of their 8-week Coursera class.

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10 sets to Encyclopedia of Disaster Relief to Japanese university affected by tsunami

Cash to earthquake victim in Chengdu

Cash to support relief efforts during floods in Davao. Set up free access to affected universities to SAGE content for 3 months






Working in Partnership with Libraries on a Global

Basis


Scholarship is changing: we are on the journey together

• SAGE partners with the library community

• Active participation in industry events and groups

• Travel grants for librarians• Research• Feedback and advisory panels• Librarian professional development and

training


Librarian travel grants● VALA● ALPSP International Conference● UKSG Annual Conference● ISKO Conference● Fiosele Conference● IFLA● Charleston Conference● ALIA Online● DRAA Annual Conference


Championing discoverability

● White paper, released January 2012

● The development of more sophisticated discovery and visibility strategies very much depends on heightened cross-sector collaborations


Open Access

● 2012 report published with British Library on the role of librarians

● Further report due in Autumn 2013 on implementing APCs, in association with JISC Collections


Championing library value

● Joint initiative with LISU (University of Loughborough)

● Best practice in library/researcher relationships

● Discovering the impact of library use & student’s performance


The future “I promise that our company will remain

independent and will remain committed to its vision by giving back through both corporate and personal philanthropy. Our employees will continue to give of their time and talent in their own communities. We enjoy our work and take pride in what we do. We believe in education and its contribution to the building of social capital and beneficial social change.’

Sara Miller-McCune (2010)


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