Academic publisher SAGE and the Bavarian State Library (Munich) on behalf of the German Research Foundation, Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG), have completed a three-year nationwide licensing agreement. Under the deal, SAGE content will be available to universities and other publicly-financed research institutions in Germany, starting January 2008. The agreement is an initiative to improve access to specialised electronic resources for German universities, research institutes and academic libraries, financially supported by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft and coordinated by major research libraries like the Bavarian State Library.
Over 170 German academic institutions, governmental institutions and major research centres, including the Max Planck Society, will now be able to access SAGE Premier - a leading collection of over 480 journals in business, humanities, social sciences, science, technology and medicine. The agreement also includes access to the SAGE Shallow Backfile (1999-2006).
The initiative is part of a pilot project to provide nationwide access to current content collections with financial support from the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft. SAGE has more recently developed a flourishing collection of science, technology and medical journals, bringing a broad range of high quality peer-reviewed journals and over 177,000 articles to the German research community.
A further agreement has been made enabling an outright purchase of the SAGE Deep Backfile - 367 SAGE journal backfiles from volume 1 issue 1 to 1998, containing over 371,000 research articles.
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