Issue no. 109, January 22, 2003
Sage Journals
Full text access to Sage journals is being withdrawn from EbscoHost. Sage, a publisher of peer-reviewed journals in communications, criminology, political science, and sociology, has launched its own Sage Full-Text Collections database that will be available exclusively through CSA (Cambridge Scientific Abstracts). Given the budget crisis at UIC, the $25,000 expenditure required for a license to Sage Full-Text Collections is currently impossible. Full-text access to Sage journals was formerly free, as the Illinois State Library provides EbscoHost at no cost to UIC and other Illinois Libraries.
EbscoHost has provided UIC extensive coverage of Sage journals until now. UIC continues to receive limited coverage of Sage journals through ECO, but the future of this access is uncertain.
This is a striking example of the power of publishers to suddenly withdraw access to information vital to scholars. The Library will do all it can to increase funding for electronic resources through its budget requests, but, until next fiscal year, students and faculty will lose online access to Sage journals and will have to use paper copies of those titles for which we have subscriptions. There is a growing trend for publishers to create their own journal collection databases and market them on their own. They may even change aggregators, which they have done here.
Cambridge Scientific Abstracts (CSA)
The Library is not unfamiliar with Cambridge Scientific Abstracts and would benefit in having them host Sage Full-Text Collections. By doing so, one would be able to search across all of the databases that we currently have with CSA, including:
ARTBibliographies Modern
Conference Papers Index
Environmental Sciences and Pollution Management
GeoRef
Linguistics and Language Behavior Abstracts
Physical Education Index
Social Services Abstracts
Sociological Abstracts
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