SAGE Publishing, formerly SAGE Publications, is an American

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publishing company founded in 1965 in New York by Sara Miller McCune and now based in

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. It publishes more than 1,000 journals, more than 800 books a year, reference works and electronic products covering business, humanities, social sciences, science, technology and medicine. SAGE also owns and publishes under the imprints of Corwin Press (since 1990),

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(since 2008), Learning Matters (since 2011), and

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(since 2012).

History

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SAGE was founded in 1965 in New York City by Sara Miller (later Sara Miller McCune) with

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executive George D. McCune as a mentor; the name of the company is an acronym formed from the first letters of their given names. SAGE relocated to Southern California in 1966, after Miller and McCune married; McCune left Macmillan to formally join the company at that time. Sara Miller McCune remained president for 18 years, shifting to board chairman in 1984 (and still retains the title of executive chairman). The couple continued to develop the company together until George McCune's death in 1990. In 2008, SAGE along with two other companies sued

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for alleged copyright infringement due to faculty providing excerpts of materials to students.

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concluded in 2020 with the publishing companies losing. In 2018, SAGE reported a mean 2017

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of 13.1% for its UK workforce, while the median was 10.3%. In 2019, products by SAGE like Lean faced opposition by part of the

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for being owned by a for-profit, as opposed to

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and

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products like

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which facilitates usage of

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works.

OASPA membership

SAGE Publishing was a founding member of the

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(OASPA) when it was established in 2008. In November 2013, OASPA reviewed SAGE's membership after the ''Journal of International Medical Research'' accepted a false and intentionally flawed paper created and submitted by a reporter for the journal ''

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'' as part of a " sting" to test the effectiveness of the peer-review processes of

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. SAGE's membership was reinstated at the end of the six month review period following changes to the journal's editorial processes.

Acquisitions

SAGE has acquired a number of other companies, including: *Pion Limited, founded in 1959 by Adam Gelbtuch and John Ashby, was the publisher of four journals in the '' Environment and Planning'' series. SAGE acquired Pion in May 2015. *Global Village Publishing, which develops software and services for electronic publishing, was acquired by SAGE in May 2018. *Talis, an

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company which developed the

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Talis Aspire, was acquired by SAGE in August 2018.

Publications

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'', academic journal that covers education *'' Journal of Developing Societies'', academic journal that covers development

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