SAGE Journals Online User Guide
Key Features
Journal Homepage Features
Journal homepages on SAGE Journals Online include a variety of unique features such as
o Free Sample Issues (1)
o OnlineFirst—forthcoming articles published ahead of print (available for most journals) (2)
o Issue Archive—current, recent, and backfile issues, with many archives going back to volume 1, issue 1 (3)
o Journal Level Quick Search options (4)
o Most-Read and Most-Cited Articles—top 50 articles in each category, updated monthly (5)
o RSS Feeds—available for the Current Issue, Recent Issues, Most Frequently Read Article, and Most Frequently Cited Articles (6)
o Side navigation menu providing more detailed information about each journal including links to Editorial Board listings, Manuscript Submissions, Abstracting and Indexing information, and Email Alerts (7)
o Link to society websites (if applicable) providing information about our society and association partners (8)
o Links to conference archives, coursepacks, data sets and audio/visual supplements (where applicable) making additional content available that doesn’t appear in the print version of the journal
Article and Abstract Level Features
At the article level users can view the abstract, full text or references (depending on access rights) or purchase short term full-text access via pay-per-view. Other features and functionality available at the abstract and article level are highlighted below:
o “Free to you” tags that indicate if you have access to the full-text (9)
o View all versions of the article (10)
o Register for alerts for when an article is cited or if a correction is posted (11)
o Email the article to a friend (12)
o Link to similar articles in the journal or from PubMed and the ISI Web of Science (13)
o Sign up for Table of Contents Alerts for the journal (14)
o Add an article to your Saved Citations list (15)
o Download an article to your preferred citation manager program (16)
o Request Permission and Reprints (17)
o Add an article to your My Marked Citations list (18)
o View other articles written by author(s) via Google Scholar and PubMed (19)
o Add an article to your preferred Social Bookmarking site(s) (20)
In the References view (21) of an article, users can take advantage of the toll-free inter-journal linking feature that links to non-subscribed articles that are also hosted on the HighWire Platform (22)
Search Features - Getting Started
Go to the SAGE Journals Online homepage at http://online.sagepub.com and click on the Sign In via User Name/Password (23) link to create your individual account and profile. You may also create your account from the My Tools tab (24) and click on the Alerts option. The registration process takes just one minute and allows you to create free personalized alerts for tables of contents, keyword, and authors (Alerts), manage your favorite journal lists for targeted searching capabilities (My Favorite Journals), and access previous search terms and saved citations (Saved Citations and Saved Searches).
Quick Search
A Quick Search across full-text may be performed by entering keyword(s) or author information in the field provided and clicking on the red Quick Search button. (25) Quick searches may also be performed from each journal’s homepage or any page that you find the red Quick Search button.
Advanced Search
The Advanced Search (26) function allows you to create a complex, Fielded Boolean (27) search using the Boolean operators AND, OR, and NOT. (28) You can enter multiple terms, including or excluding terms as desired using the Boolean operators. Multiple terms entered in a single search box are treated as an exact phrase. For every row of search terms, you can also specify a field to which you can limit your search for those terms (i.e. title, abstract, full text, references).
Search Within
Use the options in this section to limit your search results to a certain set of journals. The default option is All SAGE Content. (29) You can also choose to limit your results to My Favorite Journals (30) (if you have signed in with your individual user name and password) or SAGE Content Available to Me (31) (if you are recognized as an authorized user). You can also limit your search results to specific journals within SAGE Journals Online by selecting that option and checking all desired journals from the complete list. (32)
Date Range
Limit your search results to certain date ranges (33) by selecting the starting and ending months and years in the pull-down menus. The earliest date in the date range menus refers to the earliest date of posted content in any SAGE journal. The date of earliest content may differ from journal to journal. The full range of online content for a journal can be found on the journal’s Archive page.
Results Format
Search results can be displayed in the standard format or in a condensed format. (34) You can display between 10 and 80 search results per page and specify a relevance or date order (i.e., “most recent”). Relevance order places those articles containing the greatest number of search terms in the greatest frequency first. Articles containing the search term(s) in the title and/or abstract appear before those articles containing the term(s) only in the full text. Date ranking displays the articles in reverse chronological order.
More Helpful Features
Browse
Journals by Title: View SAGE’s entire journal portfolio via an alphabetical listing. Click on the title in which you are interested to be taken to that journal’s homepage.
Articles by Discipline: Use advanced taxonomies to retrieve articles matching your topic of interest. Click on subdisciplines under the five major categories, including Humanities, Life Science, Medicine, Physical Science, and Social Science. You may also use the TopicMap feature located on this page. TopicMap is a special Java applet designed to help you navigate topics on SAGE Journals Online in a graphical form, giving you a sense of context while navigating a large, tree-structured database.
Search History
During each of your current sessions on SAGE Journals Online, your search term(s) will be tracked through the Search History feature. For each search term(s) you use during your session you may edit, add to Saved Searches (see My Tools), delete, run search, or save the term as an alert. If you have more than one search term during a session, you can also combine searches with a Boolean “AND” or “OR” to create a new search term.
My Marked Citations
During each of your current sessions on SAGE Journals Online, any articles you select and add to My Marked Citations will be tracked through this feature. From here you can further edit your citations by printing a printer-friendly view, saving to your computer, emailing them to yourself or others, exporting/downloading them to your citation manager program, or adding them to your Saved Citation (see My Tools).
My Tools
The My Tools page allows first time users to create their individual accounts and to manage their profile and settings through the Alerts, Saved Citations, Saved Searches, My Favorite Journals, and Manage My Account features.
Alerts
Create or manage your email alerts:
o Receive the Table of Contents for your favorite journal(s) emailed upon publication
o Receive an email when a chosen article is cited
o Receive an email when an article matching your search criteria is published
o Change your email options
RSS Feeds are also available and may be accessed on each journal’s homepage.
Saved Citations
Manage your online list of saved article citations. Citations can be added to your online list while viewing articles. Saved citations will be available on return visits to SAGE Journals Online by logging into your personal My Tools account.
Saved Searches
Manage your online list of saved searches. Searches can be added to your online list from the Search History tab. Saved searches will be available on return visits to SAGE Journals Online by logging into your personal My Tools account.
My Favorite Journals
Manage your favorite journal(s) to easily customize browsing and searching SAGE Journals Online.
Manage My Account
Manage your account to
o Change your email address
o Edit your contact options
o Change your contact information
o Change your password
Information for Librarians
Librarian-Friendly Features
o Familiar HighWire subscription and administration tools for subscribed and non-subscribed content
o COUNTER-compliant usage reports
o User-friendly usage statistics with the option to view in HTML or download as a tab-delimited file
o Pay-per-view article options for non-subscribed SAGE journals
o Perpetual access provided for years subscribed
o OpenURL 2.0 compliant
o Institutional subscription options for individual journal titles, including Combined (E-access and Print), E-access, Print Only, and Backfile lease or purchase
o Institutional branding opportunities on interface
o New and improved Help features
o Search resolution for prior titles and ISSNs
o Inter-article linking between errata and the original article
Account Manager
Find subscriber help and services including links to
o Activate your institutional subscription
o Edit your account information
o Update your IP addresses
o Update your public usernames
o Subscriptions you administer
o Usage reports
o Feedback form
o Frequently Asked Questions about Institutional Subscriptions
o How to view or change your Subscription Information
o What to do if you forget your Customer Number
o How to change the administrator Username and/or Password
o What to do if you forget the administrator Username and/or Password
Electronic Products from SAGE
SAGE Journals Online hosts all SAGE journal content, including the following electronic products and packages:
o SAGE Premier – electronic access to 500+ SAGE journals with backfile to 1999
o SAGE Deep Backfile Package – lease or purchase electronic access to 381 journals with backfile to volume 1, issue 1
o SAGE Full-Text Collections – electronic access to 10 award-winning, discipline-specific databases comprising 256 journals and 360,000+ articles with deep backfile to volume 1, issue 1
o SAGE Scientific, Technical, and Medical Packages – electronic access to 165 journals in the scientific, technical, and medical fields with backfile to 1999 available in the following 3 packages:
o Clinical Medicine: 70 journals
o Health Sciences: 129 journals
o Science, Technology, and Medicine: 165 journals
o SAGE Humanities and Social Science Package – electronic access to 388 journals in the humanities and social sciences fields with backfile to 1999