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CONTACT:
Carol Richman
Director of Licensing
SAGE Publications, Inc.
carol.richman@sagepub.com

SAGE signs agreements with CLOCKSS and Portico to Preserve E-Journal
Content

Thousand Oaks, California, London, United Kingdom, and New Delhi, India
(May 8, 2006) - As a publisher of over 400 scholarly journals, SAGE
Publications is committed to ensuring the long-term stability of its
valuable journal content so future generations of scholars, researchers
and student will always have access to it.  In order to accomplish this
goal, SAGE is participating in CLOCKSS (Controlled LOCKSS - Lots of
Copies Keep Stuff Safe) and has signed an agreement with Portico, a new,
not-for-profit electronic-archiving service launched last year.

In the event of a disaster that would prevent the delivery of content,
CLOCKSS will assure that access to the journals is maintained. A joint
advisory board, made up of societies, publishers and libraries, will
determine if the content is orphaned and whether it should be made
publicly available. Since it's collectively managed, publishers are
ensured that content is controlled and no one entity has authority over
orphaned digital materials in the system.  During the two-year pilot,
participants will collect and analyze data for use in developing a
proposal for a full-scale archiving model. As part of a longer-term
strategy to permanently preserve published work, CLOCKSS will report the
results to the research community and begin a dialogue about a global
infrastructure to ensure preservation of all past, present, and future
scholarly content.

Portico will provide an ongoing, permanent online archive of SAGE
journals, ensuring that an accessible copy of each issue will exist for
decades to come. The service also offers the migration of the content
into future technological formats as they are developed. Portico's
archiving service meets library demand for a trusted, third-party
archive and perpetual access while providing SAGE with insurance against
loss of the journal content.

"It's important that SAGE preserves our content using a variety of
archiving solutions," commented Alison Mudditt, Executive Vice President
of SAGE's Higher Education Group. "We're pleased to add both CLOCKSS and
Portico's specialized service to our other archiving agreement with the
KB (Koninklijke Bibliotheek, the National Library of the Netherlands)
ensuring that access to our journals is not only protected indefinitely,
but will still be accessible as future technologies are developed."

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About SAGE
SAGE Publications is a leading international publisher of journals,
books, and electronic media for academic, educational, and professional
markets. Since 1965, SAGE has helped inform and educate a global
community of scholars, practitioners, researchers, and students spanning
a wide range of subject areas including business, humanities, social
sciences, and science, technology and medicine. SAGE Publications, a
privately owned corporation, has principal offices in Thousand Oaks,
California, London, United Kingdom, and New Delhi, India.
www.sagepublications.com

About CLOCKSS
CLOCKSS is a collaborative, community initiative to build a trusted
large dark archive. The CLOCKSS governance and administration structure
is distributed to insure no one-single organization controls oversight
of the archive or has the power to compromise the long-term viability of
the content's safety. CLOCKSS is a decentralized and safe solution to
long-term archiving based on the LOCKSS technical infrastructure. Access
to archive content will be granted in response to a trigger event (for
example, when content is orphaned or abandoned or a long-term business
interruption), reviewed by a group of people all of whom will be working
on behalf of the broader community. Our goal is to build an archive
where content, when accessible, will be available to all.
http://www.lockss.org/clockss

About Portico
Portico is a new, not-for-profit electronic-archiving service
established in response to the library community's need for a robust,
reliable means to preserve electronic scholarly journals. Portico was
initiated by JSTOR (www.jstor.org) and has been developed with the
initial support of Ithaka (www.ithaka.org), The Andrew W. Mellon
Foundation (www.mellon.org), and the Library of Congress (www.loc.gov).
Portico's mission is to preserve scholarly literature published in
electronic form and to ensure that these materials remain accessible to
future scholars, researchers and students.
www.portico.org

Valerie Johns
Senior Marketing Manager

SAGE Publications
2455 Teller Road
Thousand Oaks, CA 91320

T:  805.410.7778
F:  805.410.7004
E:  valerie.johns@sagepub.com