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SAGE Journals
User Guide
SAGE Journals (SJ), SAGE’s award-winning online journal delivery
platform is supported by HighWire Press’ H20 technology. Searchand browse more than 700 journals by discipline—including journals
in business, humanities, social sciences, and science, technology,and medicine.

http://online.sagepub.com

Portal Features
The main portal page (Figure 1) provides targeted options for improved navigation by all types ofusers, including a “News from SAGE” widget providing information about new journal updates,
product information and special announcements from SAGE.
Information & Services for:Librarians
Individual Users
Authors
Societies & Their Members
My Tools
Email Alerts
My Marked Citations
Saved Citations and Searches
My Favourite Journals
Manage My AccountSearch
Quick Search
Advanced Search
Search History
Search by discipline
Search by title
BrowseBrowse by title
Browse by discipline

Figure 1Search
Quick Search
A Quick Search across full-text articles can be performed by entering keyword(s) or author
information in the Search all journals field. Quick searches may also be performed within eachjournal site.

Advanced Search
Advanced Searches use a signature fielded Boolean system. This award-winning search tool
allows you to construct a multi-term query specifying terms and their logical relationships using
the Boolean operators AND, OR, and NOT. Multiple terms entered in a single search box aretreated as an exact phrase. Each search term row can be limited to search across specified
content areas (i.e. title, abstract, full text, references).
Search Within: use this feature to narrow your results by selecting• SAGE Journals Available to Me, All SAGE
content, or My Favourite Journals• Select from a list of titles and disciplines

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BrowseBrowsing journals by title
Expand or collapse alphabetical journal lists by clicking on the “+” or “-“ buttons next toeach letter. You may also click on a letter from the horizontal alpha list to quick jump to thecorresponding journal list.

Browsing journals by discipline (Figure 2)
Browse journals by four primary topics(Social Science & Humanities, HealthSciences, Life & Biomedical Sciences, andMaterials Science & Engineering) and theircorresponding disciplines. Expand or collapse
topic areas to reveal additional discipline
listings within each group by clicking on the“+” or “-“ buttons. Journal lists by discipline
will then appear.
Browse Within: both the “Browsing
journals by title” and “Browsing journals bydiscipline”options allow you to limit yourbrowse to My Favourite Journals or SAGE
Journals Available to Me.
From either Browse option, once you havefound a journal you are interested in, click on
the title and you will be taken to its homepage
where you can sign up for Email Alerts, view
journal information, OnlineFirst articles, andTables of Contents, and conduct journal-levelsearches.

Figure 2

Journal Home Page Features
Journal home pages (Figure 3) on SAGE Journals include a variety of unique features such as• OnlineFirst—forthcoming articles
published ahead of print (available for mostjournals) (1)• Links
to society sister publications(where applicable)—provides links toadditional Sister journals (9)• All Issues—current, recent, and backfile
issues, with many archives going back tovolume 1, issue 1 (2)• Link to society web sites (whereapplicable)—provides information aboutour society and association partners (10) DA Download (where applicable)—• P• Links to conference archives,allows you to peruse Table of Contents andcoursepacks, data sets and audio/visualAbstracts on your Palm-compatible PDA (3)supplements (where applicable)—making
additional content available that doesn’t• Journal Level Quick Search options (4)appear in the print version of the journal• Email Alerts—sign up for and manage• Most Read and Most Cited Articles—
alerts for Table of Contents, OnlineFirst
top 50 articles in each category, updated
articles, and Searches (5)monthly (11)• RSS Feeds—available for the Current
Issue, Recent Issues, Most Frequently
Read Articles, and Most Frequently Cited
Articles (6) ditor’s Choice (where applicable)—• E
view article collections hand picked by ajournal’s editor• Free Sample Issues (7) hree-column design—making features• T
accessible without drawing attention awayfrom the substantive page content• More about this journal—provides
more detailed information including links
to Editorial Board listings, Manuscript
Submissions, and Abstracting and Indexing
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Tables of Contents Features
At the Table of Contents level (Figure 4) find the following features• Abstract preview—Mouse-over entries
available from tables of contents andsearch results provide pop-up previews ofabstracts, without leaving the page (12)• Search Issue—Use the Issue-level
Quick Search to find articles in this issue
containing your keywords (13)• My Marked Citations – Keep track ofarticle citations during your browser
session then view, save, email or download
the full citations.

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Abstract and Article Level Features
View the abstract, full-text, or references (depending on access rights) of articles or purchaseshort term full-text access via pay-per-view. Features and functionality include (Figure 5) eature hideaway—Author affiliations,• F
related links, and other functions can be
expanded or hidden from view; these
preferences are retained throughout asession (14)

• Email the article to a friend (19)• R egister for alerts for when an article iscited or if a correction is posted (20)• L ink to similar articles in the journal or fromother services (21)• Keyword pivot searches—For all journals,keywords are now hyperlinked and perform • Download an article to your preferredquick searches of that term within all
citation manager program (22)content in that journal (15)
• Request Permission and Reprints (23)• Add an article to your preferred Social• View other articles written by author(s) via
Bookmarking site(s) (16)
Google Scholar and PubMed (24)• “Free to you” tags that indicate if you have• Tag-along navigation—Article Services
access to the full-text (17)features follow alongside as users scroll• View all versions of the article (18)down the page in both the abstract andfull-text HTML article views

Full-text articles also include the following features• PowerPoint downloads for figures—for
full-text HTML journals, allows you todownload figures from within an article
into a PowerPoint slide with the click of abutton.
 op-up references—for full-text HTML• P
journals, full citations pop up when you

hover over reference numbers within thetext of an article.
• T oll-free inter-journal linking (Figure 6)—
in the References view of an article, users
can link to non-subscribed cited articles
that are also hosted on the SJ and Highwire
Press platforms (25).

More helpful features
Getting Started
Go to the SAGE Journals homepage at
http://online.sagepub.com and click on theSign In link to create your individual accountand profile. You may also create your accountfrom the My Tools tab and click on the EmailAlerts option. The registration process takes
just one minute and allows you to create freepersonalized alerts for tables of contents,keyword, and authors. My Favourite Journals
lists for targeted searching capabilities, andaccess previous search terms and saved
citations (see Saved Citations and Saved
Searches).

Search History

My Marked Citations (27)During each of your current sessions on SAGE
Journals, any articles you select and add to My
Marked Citations will be tracked through thisfeature. From here you can further edit yourcitations with a printer-friendly view, saving
to your computer, emailing them to yourself
or others or exporting/downloading them toyour citation manager program. You may also
add them to your Saved Citations folder—registration is required (see Getting Started).

Saved Citations& Saved Searches (28)Manage your online list of saved article
citations and search criteria while viewing
articles. Saved citations will be available on
return visits to SAGE Journals by logging into
your personal My Tools account.

During each of your current sessions on SAGE
Journals, your search term(s) will be tracked
through the Search History feature. For eachsearch term(s) you use during your session
you may edit, add to Saved Searches (seeMy Tools), delete, run search, or save the term
as an alert. If you have more than one searchterm during a session, you can also combine
searches with a Boolean “AND” or “OR” tocreate a new search term.

Manage your favourite journal(s) to easily
customize browsing and searching SAGE
Journals.

My Tools• Edit your contact options

The My Tools page (Figure 7) allows first timeusers to create their individual accounts andto manage their profile and settings throughthe Email Alerts, My Marked Citations, Saved
Searches & Saved Citations, My Favourite
Journals, and Manage My Account features.

My Favourite Journals (29)Manage My Account (30)Manage your account to• Change your email address• Change your contact information• Change your password• Adjust your email alert options

Email Alerts (26)Sign up to receive one or more of thefollowing alerts• R eceive Tables of Contents—emailedupon online publication

26• New issues• OnlineFirst articles• Custom search results

27• Citations of selected articles• Special announcements

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RSS feeds are also available and may beaccessed on each journal’s homepage.

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Information for Librarians and Consortia
Librarian-Friendly Features• F amiliar HighWire subscription andadministration tools for subscribed andnon-subscribed content• C
 OUNTER 3 – Compliant usage reports
available to User-friendly usage statistics
with the option to view in HTML or
download as a tab-delimited file or throughthe SUSHI protocol in XML• OpenURL compliant• Institutional subscription options forindividual journal titles, including Combined(E-access and Print), E-access, Print Only,and Backfile lease or purchase• Institutional branding opportunities oninterface• P ay-per-view article options for nonsubscribed SAGE journals• New and improved Help features• P erpetual access provided for years
subscribed• Inter-article linking between errata and theoriginal article• Search resolution for prior titles and ISSNs

Find subscriber help and services including links to• Activate your institutional subscription• FAQs about Institutional Subscriptions• Edit your account information• H ow to view or change your Subscription
Information• Update your IP addresses• Update your public User names• Subscriptions you administer• Usage reports• Feedback form

• W
 hat to do if you forget your CustomerNumber• H ow to change the administrator Username and/or Password• W hat to do if you forget the administrator
User Name and/or Password

SAGE Journals goes mobile!
SAGE's entire collection of online journal sites is now available ina mobile-optimized format designed for the smaller screen of asmartphone. Readers visiting one of SAGE's 700+ journal sites on
their iPhone, Android or other smartphone device will automaticallybe redirected to the mobile version.

New! Mobile Vouchering
SAGE is pleased to announce a new mobile vouchering service forour mobile optimized journal sites. Mobile vouchers allow users at
subscribing institutions to tie their mobile devices to their institution’s
online subscriptions - allowing off campus access while on the go!
Go to http://online.sagepub.com/site/misc/Mobile_Info.xhtml for
more information.

Electronic Products from SAGE
SAGE Journals hosts all SAGE journal content, including the following electronic products
and packages• SAGE Premier – electronic access to645+ SAGE journals with backfile to 1999

• SAGE Science, Technology, andMedicine Packages – electronic
access to 220+ journals in the scientific,• SAGE Deep Backfile Package – leasetechnical, and medical fields withor purchase electronic access to 445+
backfile to 1999 available in the following
journals with backfile to volume 1, issue 1
3 packages Clinical Medicine: 115+
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Science, Technology, and Medicine:access to 545+ journals via discipline220+ journals
specific packages of the most popularpeer-reviewed journals in Communication • SAGE Humanities and Social Science
Studies, Criminology, Education,
Package – electronic access to 480+
Management & Organization Studies,journals in the humanities and social
Materials Science & Engineering, Nursing
sciences fields with backfile to 1999
& Public Health, Political Science,
Psychology, Sociology, and Urban
Studies & Planning

Please visit www.sagepub.com/librarians for more information on ourelectronic products, pricing, and subscription options.

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