SAGE Journals Online
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Major Features of SAGE Journals Online

Content Alerts

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Be notified via email when new content goes online

Cross-Journal Searching

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Search across multiple journals

Inter-Journal Links

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Hyperlink from reference citations to the articles to which they refer

Saved Citations/Saved Searches Folders

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Save articles and searches for future use

Exporting Citations

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Acquire article citations in the Medlars format

Printing

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HTML and PDF versions of most articles are available

Browsing

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View the contents of SAGE Journals Online

Searching

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Search the contents of SAGE Journals Online

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Be notified immediately via email when new content goes online.

As part of this service you can choose to receive:

  • Table of Contents: Complete tables of contents of the newest issue
  • TOC Awareness: Notification that a new issue is available online
  • Announcements: Special announcements from the journals of your choice

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SAGE Journals Online lets you search across multiple journals.

After performing a search in SAGE Journals Online, you can perform the same search in other journals through the "pulldown menu" at the top of the search result page entitled "Try this search in:..." Selecting a journal title and clicking the "Search" button will start a search using the previously specified criteria in the selected journal.

Alternatively, you can return to the search page and click the 'Search multiple journals' link. You will go to a page where you can perform one search which will be applied to multiple online journals in a single step.

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So that you can quickly and easily move from articles to the full text of cited references, we have created hyperlinks from reference citations to the articles to which they refer.

When an article in SAGE Journals Online cites an article from another HighWire-hosted journal, hyperlinks have been created which allow you to move from the original article to the abstract of the cited article. Likewise, links have been created to allow users of other HighWire-hosted journals to quickly and easily access SAGE Journals Online articles. [List of Participating Journals]

These Inter-Journal links take you to the abstract of the cited reference. Limited free access may be granted to allow you free use of the single article which was cited by the original article.

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If you see an online article that you want to keep handy for future reference, just click the Saved Citations/Saved Searches Folders link at the upper right hand corner of the page.

You can also save previous searches so you can run them again later.

You may create multiple "file folders" on specific topics. It's like having a virtual file cabinet with all your favorite articles and searches.

Create / modify Saved Citations/Saved Searches Folders preferences

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We provide a simple and direct method of acquiring article citations in the Medlars format compatible with import into personal bibliographic management software such as EndNote, Reference Manager, or ProCite.

To export citations with Abstracts for any SAGE Journals Online article to a citation manager program, the following steps are suggested:

  1. View the abstract or Full Text article of interest

  2. Click the [Download to Citation Manager] link above the article title.

  3. When the tagged version of the citation is displayed, scroll until the "Save" button can be seen.

  4. Select your preferred format (Macintosh, PC or Unix) from the "Save" menu and click the Save button.

  5. Select the directory you wish to save the file in and give the file a unique name.

  6. Follow the instructions that came with your citation manager to import the reference into your personal bibliographic database

If your citation manager does not support import of Medlars format, you may still use the Download function. After saving the citation to your local disk, open the citation file and manually copy/paste the information in the file into the appropriate fields in your personal bibliographic database.

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  • Articles: Print the "Reprint (PDF) Version of this article" version for output that closely resembles the paper version of SAGE Journals Online.

  • Abstracts, tables of contents, search results: Use your browser's Print function.

  • High-Resolution figures: JPEGView for Macintosh or LViewPro for Windows.

Please see Help with Printing for more detailed information.

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To view the contents of the current issue, click on the "Current Issue" link on the home page. The table of contents also includes a link to an index of authors for the current issue.

To view the contents of any online issue, click the "Archive" button at the top of most pages. This will display a list of the issues that are available for browsing.

To search the contents of all online issues, click the "Search" button at the top of most pages.

When viewing the table of contents for an online issue, you can search for words in the text of the articles in that issue by entering words in the search box and clicking the Enter button. Read Help with Searching to learn how searching works in SAGE Journals Online.

To view contents of upcoming issues, click on the "View Future Titles" link on the home page. You can then use the Find function in your browser to find words in the titles listed in the table of contents.

To see an article, click on its [Full Text] link. To see one Abstract, click on its [Abstract] link. To review many Abstracts, check the boxes to the left of the titles you want and click Get All Checked Abstract(s).

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Please see Help with Searching for detailed information on searching SAGE Journals Online.

To search SAGE Journals Online, enter search terms in the spaces provided. Select a date range if desired. Note that if you do not change the date range provided, your search will cover all available issues. Click the Start Search button.

Titles of articles retrieved as a result of searching are returned in relevance ranked order. The "closest matches" will be articles that match more of your search terms, that match your terms more closely, that have more occurrences of any one term, and that have occurrences earlier in the Abstract or article. You have several choices as to the number of "closest matches" retrieved.

In the list of titles retrieved by your search, To see one Abstract, click on its [Abstract] link. To review many Abstracts, check the boxes to the left of the titles you want and click on Get All Checked Abstract(s).