Academic publisher SAGE and the University of California, Berkeley, through its Berkeley Research Impact Initiative (BRII), have announced a partnership designed to encourage social science and humanities faculty and students at the university to make their work available to all by publishing in SAGE Open. Launched by SAGE in 2011, SAGE Open claims to be the first peer-reviewed, broad-based, 'Gold' open access social science and humanities journal.
UC Berkeley will subsidise the author fee for 30 accepted papers to SAGE Open at a discounted rate. SAGE will reach out to UC Berkeley faculty and students to let them know about the subsidised fees. Additionally, SAGE will handle the billing and accounting for the fees so that it is a seamless transaction for UC Berkeley authors.
The goals of the BRII are to provide support to new and emerging publisher options that both enhance the impact of Berkeley authors' research and show promise in helping research institutions create affordable and sustainable models for scholarly communication.
SAGE Open has had more than 1,100 submissions across a range of disciplines, including education, psychology, political science, management and communication. Papers are from universities around the globe and include authors from leading institutions such as Harvard, Stanford, NYU, and others. SAGE Open is the winner of the 2012 APEX Award for Publishing Excellence and recently published its 100th article.
