Taking a Fresh Approach
Building on SAGE Publications' tradition of publishing high-quality scholarly works for more than 35 years, we are concentrating our efforts on providing upper-level undergraduate and graduate textbooks, handbooks, and professional books. Our Books Division also includes the SAGE Reference program, which publishes encyclopedias and other reference works, and the Pine Forge Press imprint, which focuses on undergraduate textbooks in sociology. SAGE currently publishes nearly 500 titles per year worldwide across its imprints, and has over 3,000 titles in print.
SAGE is one of the few remaining independent publishers. We are a publisher, first and foremost. Our goal is to publish books that offer innovative teaching solutions, approaches, and perspectives to the disciplines that we serve. While we are firmly guided by the needs of our market, we are driven to publish books that contribute to your students' learning experience, to your colleagues, and to the field.
The Benefits of Publishing with SAGE
At SAGE we recognize that our authors and editors are among our most important assets, and we are committed to developing strong and flexible partnership which offers the following benefits:
- Thorough evaluation of proposals and sample material, with constructive feedback provided by experienced editors and peer reviews
- Involvement and support from your SAGE team throughout the writing and development process
- Consultation on design, production, and marketing issues
- High quality book production
- Global promotion, marketing, sales, and distribution
Author Permissions
SAGE Publications has provided forms and information that will assist you in obtaining the necessary permissions to publish your manuscript.
Permission Guidelines
Detailed Copyright & Permissions Guidelines
Quick Reference Guides
Plagiarism, Defamation & Privacy Quick-Guide
Fair Use Quick-Guide
Permission Request Forms
Permission Request Form to Reprint or Adapt
Permission Request Form for Interview Release
Permission Request Form for Visual Likeness
Permissions Log
SAGE Permissions Log Template
SAGE Permissions Log Guidelines
Personal Attention
The environment at SAGE is personal and inviting. Placing a high value on the relationship with our authors, we work diligently to form strong publishing partnerships. Our acquisitions editors are among the best in their respective fields, and each has many years experience (see below to learn more about our editorial team). Eager to share their knowledge and publishing expertise, they'll work closely with you—from signing to sales—to ensure that your book reaches the highest level of success. With your acquisitions editor in the lead, the editorial, production, and marketing teams will work together to keep you informed and involved at each stage of the publishing process.
Production Excellence
Our production team sets the highest standards for editing, design, and page layout—and they will produce your book in a timely manner. Taking full advantage of new technologies, our streamlined production process allows us to provide one of the most competitive production schedules in the industry. You'll find that our systems remain flexible and responsive to the needs of each individual project. Many leading authors rely on SAGE to publish their works with accuracy and efficiency.
Strategic Marketing and Sales
We're always looking for ways to enhance our marketing practices. By employing a multichannel marketing and sales strategy through targeted direct-marketing efforts—including direct mail, electronic marketing, telemarketing and sales, advertising, book review publicity, and representation at professional association meetings/conventions—as well as cooperative marketing and sales with online retailers, bookstores, and book wholesalers, your book will receive maximum exposure to all appropriate audiences. Since we're a global company, you'll have the advantage of international marketing and sales efforts through our offices in the U.K. and India.
Our strong journal program complements our book publishing endeavors.
Please forward your proposal to the appropriate editor. A list of editors, their subject areas, telephone extensions, and email addresses follows.
SAGE Publications, Inc.
2455 Teller Road
Thousand Oaks, CA
91320
Phone: (805) 499-0721
Fax: (805) 499-0871
Acquisition Editors
Todd Armstrong
todd.armstrong@sagepub.com
(415-512-5221)
Todd handles SAGE's programs in Speech and Human
Communication, Mass Communication and Cultural
Studies. Todd has been in higher education and
academic publishing since 1986 and has worked in every aspect of the business
(acquisitions, management, marketing, sales, and production). Prior to joining
SAGE, he was the communication & media studies editor for Wadsworth and
then a director of marketing & publicity for McGraw-Hill.
Lisa Cuevas Shaw
lisa.shaw@sagepub.com
(805) 410-7186
Lisa is Executive Editor with management responsibilities over SAGE's Business, Management, Public Administration, and Marketing book programs and the Education program. In addition to establishing and guiding plans for the growth and development of these programs, Lisa acquires texts for the Business and Management portfolio. Having earned her graduate degree in Business Administration, Lisa is well-positioned to leverage her educational background with her publishing experience to develop quality course materials for this broad-ranging curriculum. Lisa has been in higher education publishing for more than 12 years, starting her career in journals production, moving to journals acquisitions, and most recently heading up SAGE's hallmark program in Research Methods and Evaluation.
Jim Brace-Thompson
jbt@sagepub.com
(805-410-7582)
Jim is
Senior Acquisitions Editor for SAGE
Reference. Jim's publishing career started in 1983 with a part-time job at
the University of Massachusetts Press while in graduate school. He subsequently
attended the Radcliffe Publishing Procedures program at Harvard University and
spent 14 years in college publishing with Brooks/Cole (8 years in sales and
marketing; 6 as Acquisitions Editor in psychology). He came to SAGE in 1998 as
Senior Acquisitions Editor for psychology, family studies, and gerontology.
Starting in 2006, he moved to the SAGE Reference division to acquire major
reference works (primarily multi-volume encyclopedias) in all traditional SAGE
fields within the social and behavioral sciences, education, management, and
communication and also will be expanding the reference list into scientific,
technical and medical fields.
Erik Evans
erik.evans@sagepub.com
(619-281-7929)
Erik has had a distinguished career to date in higher education book publishing and we’re delighted that he has joined SAGE. He began his career in publishing as a senior sales representative for Bedford, Freeman and Worth, then moved to Thomson / Cengage / Wadsworth working as a Marketing Manager, a Technology Solutions consultant and then finally as a Senior Acquisitions Editor for the psychology list. In each area where Erik worked he demonstrated an excellent record of achievement surpassing goals, developing and launching technology products for both print and digital, and increasing revenue and sales.
Kassie Graves
kgraves@sagepub.com
(805-410-7545)
Kassie is the Acquisitions Editor for SAGE's book program in the Human Services (including social work and counseling). She
originally joined Sage in 1995 in Marketing, but then joined the Acquisitions
Team from 1997-1999, where she worked on signing and developing books in the
counseling and interpersonal violence lists. After leaving to pursue an advanced
degree and start her own children's book publishing company, she recently
rejoined Sage in 2006.
Vicki Knight
vicki.knight@sagepub.com
(831-641-0435)
Vicki is Senior Acquisitions Editor for Research Methods, Statistics, and Evaluation in the social and behavioral sciences. With over 25 years of innovative publishing in both Acquisitions and Development, Vicki is eager to work with teachers and researchers who are committed to their vision and to developing successful texts. Initially, Vicki worked in all areas of Education, especially in Special Education, as well as counseling and Speech Pathology and Audiology. In the past 18 years, Vicki was Publisher & Executive Editor for Psychology & Education with Brooks/Cole (subsequently renamed Wadsworth/Thomson).
Diane McDaniel
Diane.McDaniel@sagepub.com
(805-410-7759)
Diane is Senior Acquisitions Editor for the Education and Evaluation lists. She publishes books for preK-12 Teacher Education as well as titles in Evaluation for the social and behavioral sciences. Diane has been in higher education publishing for over a decade, working as a college textbook sales representative and regional field editor prior to becoming an acquisitions editor. Prior to joining SAGE, Diane worked for Prentice Hall, John Wiley & Sons, and Glencoe/McGraw-Hill.
Jerry Westby
jerry.westby@sagepub.com
(805-410-7578)
Jerry Westby is an executive editor with responsibility over Sage's psychology, and human services lists, along with the Pine Forge Press list in sociology. He also acquires titles in Sociology, Criminology and Criminal Justice. With over 20 years of successful editorial experience in the educational publishing industry developing books, ancillaries, online and multimedia products, Jerry is eager to work with authors to continue the tradition of first-class, innovative offerings from SAGE and Pine Forge.
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