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      <title>CQ Press Announces the Release of CQ's Politics in America 2010: The 111th Congress</title>
      <description>CQ Press today announced the release of CQ's Politics in America 2010: The 111th Congress with new and fully revised profiles of every member of Congress following the 2008 election.</description>
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      <title>Political Science to be published by SAGE starting in 2010</title>
      <description>Political Science, the journal of the Political Science and International Relations program at the Victoria University of Wellington (VUW), will be published by SAGE starting in 2010.</description>
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      <title>Encyclopedia of the First Amendment: The Award-Winner Goes Online!</title>
      <description>CQ Press has just released the online edition of its Encyclopedia of the First Amendment—the award-winning reference that details the political, historical, and cultural significance of the First Amendment.</description>
      <link>http://www.sagepub.com/press/2009/july/fa.sp</link>
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      <title>SAGE Reference's monumental, new Encyclopedia of Journalism examines a process permeating our lives and shaping our thoughts</title>
      <description>SAGE Reference's expansive, authoritative, new six-volume Encyclopedia of Journalism covers all significant dimensions of journalism, including print, broadcast, and Internet journalism, and focuses on the gathering, editing, reporting, and distribution of news in America and other nations and regions.</description>
      <link>http://www.uk.sagepub.com/press/2009/july/7_July.sp</link>
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      <title>SAGE signs an agreement with Lyrasis to offer its entire electronic journal and reference portfolio to member libraries</title>
      <description>SAGE announced today that, for the first time, SAGE's entire electronic journal and reference portfolio is available to members of Lyrasis, the new membership organization created earlier this year from the merger of two well-established regional library networks: PALINET and SOLINET.</description>
      <link>http://www.uk.sagepub.com/press/2009/july/8_July.sp</link>
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      <title>The American Sociological Association partners with SAGE to publish its influential journals</title>
      <description>SAGE is very pleased to announce it has signed an agreement to partner with the American Sociological Association (ASA) to publish eight of its journals beginning in 2010 and 2012.</description>
      <link>http://www.uk.sagepub.com/press/2009/july/6_July.sp</link>
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      <title>Healthcare outcome boost needs better studies Research published in Medical Care Research and Review</title>
      <description>Evidence suggests that outcomes in many clinical settings leave a lot to be desired, which means that research into quality improvement (QI) in clinical care has the potential to greatly improve the lot of patients. Now a study in the journal Medical Care Research and Review published by SAGE suggests that both theoretical and practical improvements in QI effectiveness studies could make these into much more powerful tools for positive change.</description>
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      <title>CQ Press Releases Washington Information Directory, 2009–2010</title>
      <description>The newest edition of CQ Press's widely acclaimed Washington Information Directory is hitting bookshelves this week.</description>
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      <title>Now Live on the SAGE Reference Online Platform:SAGE Reference Online Handbook Collection</title>
      <description>SAGE announced today that the new SAGE Reference Online Handbook Collection, a set of 80 of its highest rated handbooks, digitized and hosted on the award-winning SAGE Reference Online platform, is now available for libraries worldwide</description>
      <link>http://www.uk.sagepub.com/press/2009/june/29_June.sp</link>
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      <title>Latin America must cut blood pressure to thrive Research published in Therapeutic Advances in Cardiovascular Disease</title>
      <description>Research published in the journal Therapeutic Advances in Cardiovascular Disease shows that high blood pressure is on the increase in many Latin American countries, a situation set to worsen unless immediate action is taken</description>
      <link>http://www.uk.sagepub.com/press/2009/june/26_June.sp</link>
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      <title>SAGE Journals Continue Strong Growth in the Thomson Reuters Journal Citation Reports®</title>
      <description>SAGE, the world's leading independent academic publisher, is pleased to announce strong growth in the just released 2008 Thomson Reuters Journal Citation Reports® (JCR). SAGE has increased its number of ranked titles by an additional 11%, with 68% of journals increasing their impact factor.</description>
      <link>http://www.uk.sagepub.com/press/2009/june/30_June.sp</link>
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      <title>Understand a critical element of the healthcare field with SAGE Reference's monumental, new Encyclopedia of Medical Decision Making</title>
      <description>SAGE Reference's essential, new two-volume Encyclopedia of Medical Decision Making is the only available reference source to comprehensively reveal how medical and healthcare decisions are actually made—and constrained—and how physician, healthcare management, and patient decision making can be improved to optimize health outcomes.</description>
      <link>http://www.uk.sagepub.com/press/2009/june/18_June.sp</link>
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      <title>SAGE to publish Index on Censorship</title>
      <description>SAGE and the Index on Censorship, Britain's leading organization promoting freedom of expression, are delighted to announce that SAGE will publish the award-winning Magazine Index on Censorship from January 2010.</description>
      <link>http://www.uk.sagepub.com/press/2009/june/17_June.sp</link>
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      <title>Statistics for People Who (Think They) Hate Statistics, The Excel Edition</title>
      <description>In the just-published Second Edition of the Excel version, Salkind focuses on the use of the popular software as the primary analytic tool and walks readers through various statistical procedures.</description>
      <link>http://www.uk.sagepub.com/press/2009/june/16_June.sp</link>
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      <title>CQ Press's Political Contact Suite Goes Mobile!</title>
      <description>CQ Press's Political Contact Suite has gone mobile.</description>
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      <title>U.S. Navy culture and workplace leads to heavy drinking Study in the Journal of Mixed Methods Research 	</title>
      <description>The nature of the U.S. Navy workplace leads to higher heavy drinking for sailors than for civilians, according to an article in the May issue of the Journal of Mixed Methods Research published by SAGE.</description>
      <link>http://www.uk.sagepub.com/press/2009/june/9_June.sp</link>
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      <title>Craving for Ecstasy and Natural Highs explores positive ways of conquering cravings and achieving lasting happiness</title>
      <description>Craving for Ecstasy and Natural Highs: A Positive Approach to Mood Alteration is a new book published this month by SAGE that is called a "tour de force" by the director of Harvard's Division on Addictions.</description>
      <link>http://www.uk.sagepub.com/repository/binaries/pdf/pr/8_June-CRAVING_FOR_ECSTASY_AND_NATURAL_HIGHS.pdf</link>
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      <title>Coming June 2009: SAGE Reference Online Handbook Collection</title>
      <description>SAGE announced today that the new SAGE Reference Online Handbook Collection, a set of 80 of its highest rated handbooks, digitized and hosted on the award-winning SAGE Reference Online platform, will be available for libraries worldwide in June 2009.</description>
      <link>http://www.uk.sagepub.com/repository/binaries/pdf/pr/3_June-SRO_HANDBOOK_COLLECTION.pdf</link>
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      <title>SAGE Reference's extraordinary, new Encyclopedia of Death and the Human Experience explores the process of dying and the phenomenon of death</title>
      <description>SAGE Reference's comprehensive, new, two-volume Encyclopedia of Death and the Human Experience examines the complex beliefs, traditions, and social rituals surrounding dying and death, as well as the emotional responses related to bereavement, grieving, and mourning.</description>
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      <title>New Editor-in-Chief Named to SOPHE's Health Promotion Practice</title>
      <description>The Society for Public Health Education (SOPHE) Board of Trustees announces the appointment of Leonard Jack, Jr., PhD, MSc, CHES, as the editor-in-chief of the Society's peer-reviewed journal Health Promotion Practice (HPP).</description>
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      <title>Palliative Medicine to be official journal of the Association for Palliative Medicine</title>
      <description>SAGE announced today that the flagship medical journal Palliative Medicine will become the official journal of the Association for Palliative Medicine (APM).</description>
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      <title>FDA ignores critical information on home HIV tests, says article in Medical Decision Making</title>
      <description>The FDA is ignoring critical information in deciding whether to approve an over-the-counter, rapid HIV test for home use, according to a recent article in the journal Medical Decision Making (MDM), which is published by SAGE</description>
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      <title>Australian Journal of Management to be published by SAGE</title>
      <description>The Australian School of Business at the University of New South Wales and SAGE have announced that, starting in 2010, the Australian Journal of Management will be published by SAGE.</description>
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      <title>Ultrasound More Cost Efficient Than Other Medical Imaging Choices Literature Review Published in Journal of Diagnostic Medical Sonography</title>
      <description>In comparing ultrasound with other medical imaging methods such as MRI and CT scans, a literature review of published studies in the May/June issue of Journal of Diagnostic Medical Sonography (JDMS) describes the use of ultrasound to provide an accurate diagnosis more cost effectively than the alternatives.</description>
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      <title>Understanding Terrorism: Challenges, Perspectives, and Issues Third Edition Now Available</title>
      <description>A new edition of the Understanding Terrorism: Challenges, Perspectives, and Issues, by Gus Martin is now available from SAGE.</description>
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      <title>CQ Press Releases Political Handbook of the World 2009 Online Edition</title>
      <description>CQ Press has just released the newest online edition of its highly acclaimed Political Handbook of the World.</description>
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      <title>Marijuana Rivals Mainstream Drugs for HIV/AIDS Symptoms Research published in Clinical Nursing Research</title>
      <description>Those in the United States living with HIV/AIDS are more likely to use marijuana than those in Kenya, South Africa or Puerto Rica to alleviate their symptoms, according to a new study published by SAGE in Clinical Nursing Research.</description>
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      <title>SAGE to Publish The Journal of Defense Modeling and Simulation: Applications, Methodology, Technology</title>
      <description>SAGE and the Society for Modeling and Simulation International announced today that JDMS: The Journal of Defense Modeling and Simulation: Applications, Methodology, Technology will be published by SAGE beginning in June.</description>
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      <title>The Association for Psychological Science Chooses SAGE to Publish its Prestigious Journals</title>
      <description>SAGE is very pleased to announce it has signed a 10-year agreement to partner with the Association for Psychological Science (APS) to publish its four journals beginning in 2010. The journals are Psychological Science, one of the most prestigious and highly cited journals in the field, Current Directions in Psychological Science, Psychological Science in the Public Interest and Perspectives on Psychological Science.</description>
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      <title>SAGE Reference's Wide-ranging, New Encyclopedia of Business in Today's World Explores the Practices, Technologies, and Tools of Modern Commerce</title>
      <description>SAGE Reference's essential, new four-volume Encyclopedia of Business in Today's World explores the vast range of interconnected elements comprising modern business</description>
      <link>http://www.sagepub.com/repository/binaries/press/2009/encyclopedia_of_business_in_todays_world.pdf</link>
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      <title>5th International Congress of Qualitative Inquiry Features SAGE Authors and Journal Editors</title>
      <description>SAGE, the world's leading research methods publisher, is again a key sponsor of the annual International Congress of Qualitative Inquiry. This fifth Congress will be held at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign from May 20-23, 2009. The theme is "Advancing Human Rights Through Qualitative Inquiry."</description>
      <link>http://www.sagepub.com/repository/binaries/press/2009/fifth_annual_qual_inquiry.pdf</link>
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      <title>Understand the Current State of Criminology with SAGE Reference's Comprehensive New 21st Century Criminology: A Reference Handbook</title>
      <description>The American Journal of Men's Health (AJMH), published by SAGE, has been accepted for inclusion in MEDLINE, the premier bibliographic database of the U.S. National Library of Medicine (NLM), containing more than 16 million journal article citations.</description>
      <link>http://www.sagepub.com/repository/binaries/press/2009/21st_century_crim.pdf</link>
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      <title>American Journal of Men's Health Accepted to MEDLINE</title>
      <description>The American Journal of Men's Health (AJMH), published by SAGE, has been accepted for inclusion in MEDLINE, the premier bibliographic database of the U.S. National Library of Medicine (NLM), containing more than 16 million journal article citations.</description>
      <link>http://www.sagepub.com/repository/binaries/press/2009/ajmh_accepted_to_medline.pdf</link>
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      <title>SAGE's Leading Robotics Journal Launches First Ever Data Papers, Revamps Multimedia Services</title>
      <description>The International Journal of Robotics Research (IJRR) is launching a new genre of research paper today at the 2009 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation in Japan (ICRA2009).</description>
      <link>http://www.sagepub.com/repository/binaries/press/2009/robotics_journal_launches_data_papers.pdf</link>
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      <title>Wordless Holocaust Memories Speak Truths for Today</title>
      <description>The Holocaust has shaped discourse on collective, social and cultural memory, serving both as touchstone and paradigm, according to a study published by SAGE this month in Memory Studies.</description>
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      <title>New "SAGE Junior Faculty Professional Development Teaching Award" Criminology and Criminal Justice Textbook Authors Help Fund Award</title>
      <description>SAGE, with the help of the Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences (ACJS) and participating SAGE authors, has created the new "SAGE Junior Faculty Professional Development Award". It was created to help defray the cost of attending the annual ACJS Professional Development Teaching Workshop and ACJS Annual Meeting.</description>
      <link>http://www.sagepub.com/repository/binaries/press/2009/junior_faculty_teaching_award.pdf</link>
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      <title>SAGE Helps Sponsor Forum to Showcase CSUCI Faculty-Student Research</title>
      <description>SAGE and California State University's Division of Academic Affairs are sponsoring the CSU Channel Islands' inaugural Faculty Student Research Forum this Saturday, May 9, from 10 A.M to noon in the John Spoor Broome Library.</description>
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      <title>National School Nurse Day May 6, 2009</title>
      <description>National School Nurse Day is a time to celebrate the nursing profession and the specialty of school nursing.</description>
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      <title>Four SAGE Reference Titles Included in Library Journal's Best Reference 2008</title>
      <description>SAGE Reference titles continue to receive rave reviews and awards. Four key titles were included in Library Journal’s annual Best Reference feature announced this month.</description>
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      <title>More Than 1000 Researchers Now Collaborating on Methodspace</title>
      <description>In just one month, Methodspace, a public social network dedicated to the discussion of research methods online, has already passed more than 1000 members.</description>
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      <title>Number of Matches Played Determines Teen Tennis Players' Risk for Medical Withdrawal</title>
      <description>The number of matches junior tennis players compete in during a tournament directly affects their risk for medical withdrawal during a tournament concluded a study published in the youth focused May/June 2009 issue of Sports Health: A Multidisciplinary Approach (published by SAGE).</description>
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      <title>Study Shows Strength Training Beneficial for Young Athletes</title>
      <description>— Participating in even a short-duration strength-training program during childhood and especially during adolescence may not only improve one’s body composition, but also increase self-esteem and improve blood lipid profiles, according to a study published in the May/June issue of Sports Health A Multidisciplinary Approach.</description>
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      <title>Weakened Hip Muscles Common Reason for Overuse Running Injuries</title>
      <description>As most runners know, aches and pains are a common part of training. However, according to a study published in the May/June issue of Sports Health: A Multidisciplinary Approach (published by SAGE), the real culprit for overuse running injuries, such as patellofemoral pain syndrome, iliotibial band syndrome, and Achilles tendonitis may have more to do with weakened hip muscles than how many miles run.</description>
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      <title>Adolescent Growth Plate Injuries May be Related to Overuse</title>
      <description>Early diagnosis and immobilization of growth plate injuries is key to putting an adolescent athlete back in the game, according to a recent study published in the May/June issue of Sports Health: A Multidisciplinary Approach (published by SAGE).</description>
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      <title>7th Annual Qualitative Research Summer Intensive Features top SAGE Research Methods Authors</title>
      <description>SAGE, the world's leading research methods publisher, will be well represented by some of its top authors at the 7th Annual Qualitative Research Summer Intensive, June 24-28, 2009 in Long Island, New York</description>
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      <title>The Lessons of Columbine Explored Ten Years Later in Two Special Issues of American Behavioral Scientist</title>
      <description>Today is the 10th anniversary of the Columbine shootings. Scholars in a variety of fields have since studied the phenomena of school shootings</description>
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      <title>Promotion and Education Changes Name to Global Health Promotion</title>
      <description>The official journal of the International Union for Health Promotion and Education (IUHPE), published by SAGE, has changed its name from Promotion and Education to Global Health Promotion (GHP), beginning this month</description>
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      <title>Live Demos of Methodspace Planned at AERA</title>
      <description>SAGE, the world's leading research methods publisher, will be offering live demos of Methodspace for the first time at the American Educational Research Association annual meeting April 14-16 in San Diego</description>
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      <title>SAGE Partners with Blackboard and CourseSmart Students and Educators Get Innovative, Cost-effective Course Material Onlinen</title>
      <description>SAGE is pleased to announce its recent partnership with two industry-leading, online education applications: Blackboard and CourseSmart</description>
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      <title>SAGE Reference's NewEncyclopedia of Giftedness, Creativity, and Talen</title>
      <description>SAGE Reference's unprecedented, new, two-volume Encyclopedia of Giftedness, Creativity, and Talent is the first comprehensive reference source to delve into this increasingly important, complex field</description>
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      <title>Five New Titles for SAGE-Hindawi Partnership</title>
      <description>SAGE and Hindawi have announced the further expansion of their joint publishing collaboration, SAGE-Hindawi Access to Research. Five new titles are now live on the SAGE-Hindawi platform</description>
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      <title>SAGE to Provide Financial Support for the New Faculty Research Center at Santa Barbara City College</title>
      <description>SAGE announced today that it will provide up to $100,000 to support the building of the new Faculty Research Center in the new School of Media Arts at Santa Barbara City College</description>
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      <title>SAGE and Sherborne Gibbs Announce A Change in Publication Arrangements for Diabetes and Vascular Disease Research (DVDR)</title>
      <description>SAGE, the world's leading independent academic and professional publisher, today announced the further growth of its medical publishing program with the acquisition of Diabetes and Vascular Disease Research (DVDR) from Sherborne Gibbs Limited. DVDR is the official journal of the International Society of Diabetes and Vascular Disease Research..</description>
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      <title>SAGE Reference's Groundbreaking, New Encyclopedia of Play in Today's Society</title>
      <description>SAGE Reference's authoritative, new, two-volume Encyclopedia of Play in Today's Society examines both adult and childhood play and games in dozens of cultures around the world and throughout history.</description>
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      <title>2007 BPS Book Award Winner Andy Field to Launch New Edition at Annual Conference Discovering Statistics Using SPSS, 3e</title>
      <description>A new edition of the widely-acclaimed Discovering Statistics Using SPSS by Andy Field will be launched at the annual conference of the British Psychological Society's (BPS) in April.</description>
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      <title>Methodspace: Connecting the Research Community New Social Network Aims to Bring Together Practical Support in Research Methods</title>
      <description>SAGE, the world's leading independent academic publisher has today launched Methodspace.com; a public social network dedicated to the discussion of research methods online.</description>
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      <title>Music Instruction Can Help Children Improve Reading Skills Study Published in Psychology of Music</title>
      <description>Children exposed to a multi-year program of music training with increasingly complex rhythmic, tonal, and practical skills display superior cognitive performance in reading skills compared with their non-musically trained peers, according to a study published by SAGE today in the journal Psychology of Music.</description>
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      <title>Journal of Correctional Health Care Accepted in MEDLINE</title>
      <description>SAGE and the National Commission on Correctional Health Care (NCCHC) are pleased to announce that the Journal of Correctional Health Care (JCHC), the official publication of NCCHC, has been accepted for inclusion in MEDLINE</description>
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      <title>New Editor of NASN's The Journal of School Nursing</title>
      <description>Donna J. Mazyck, President of the National Association of School Nurses (NASN), is pleased to announce the appointment of Julia Cowell PhD, APRN, BC, FAAN as the new editor of NASN's research publication, The Journal of School Nursing, which is published by SAGE</description>
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      <title>SAGE Creates Research Fellowship Fund at CUNY</title>
      <description>SAGE announced today that it has created the SAGE Sara Miller McCune Research Fellowship Fund at the Howard Samuels Center, at the City University of New York’s (CUNY) Graduate Center</description>
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      <title>SAGE to Launch Handbook Collection on Award-winning SAGE Reference Online Platform</title>
      <description>SAGE announced today that it will be launching the SAGE Reference Online Handbook Collection, a set of 80 of its highest rated handbooks, digitized and hosted on the award-winning SAGE Reference Online platform</description>
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      <title>Ecstasy Could Help Patients with Post Traumatic Stress Disorder Research Published in Journal of Psychopharmacology</title>
      <description>Ecstasy may help sufferers of post-traumatic stress learn to deal with their memories more effectively by encouraging a feeling of safety, according to research published today by SAGE in the Journal of Psychopharmacology</description>
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      <title>Children With ADHD Concentrate Better After Walk in the Park Research Published in Journal of Attention Disorders</title>
      <description>Children with ADHD are able to concentrate better after a taking a walk in a park compared with a walk in other environments, according to a study in the current issue of the Journal of Attention Disorders (published by SAGE).</description>
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      <title>Explore the Oval Office and Beyond with CQ Press's Newest Edition of The Presidents, First Ladies, and Vice Presidents</title>
      <description>Explore the Oval Office and Beyond with CQ Press's Newest Edition of The Presidents, First Ladies, and Vice Presidents.</description>
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      <description>SAGE, a leading international publisher of journals, books, and electronic media for academic, educational, and professional markets, continues to expand its advertising sales force with the acquisition of a portion of the advertising sales business of Leonard Media Group</description>
      <link>http://www.sagepub.com/repository/binaries/press/2009/sage_acquires_advertising_sales_bus.pdf</link>
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      <description>SAGE Reference's monumental, new, two-volume Encyclopedia of Health Services Research is the only single reference source to cover comprehensively this diverse, complex field</description>
      <link>http://www.sagepub.com/repository/binaries/press/2009/encyclopedia_of_health_services_research.pdf</link>
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      <description>SAGE is pleased to announce that SAGE Reference titles have been honored by both the Reference and User Services Association (RUSA) and its Business Reference and Services Section (BRASS) from the American Library Association (ALA). Both awards were announced at the recent ALA midwinter meeting in Denver</description>
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      <description>Transformation, the journal of the Oxford Centre for Mission Studies (OCMS), is now published by SAGE, the world's leading independent academic and professional publisher</description>
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      <description>CQ Press released a new online product suite at the American Library Association midwinter meeting in Denver last month</description>
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      <description>For the second time this year, CQ Press's Encyclopedia of the First Amendment has been singled out for special recognition</description>
      <link>http://www.sagepub.com/repository/binaries/press/2009/encyc_of_the_first_amend.pdf</link>
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      <description>The Society for Public Health Education (SOPHE), in collaboration with the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's (CDC) Division of Violence Prevention, today announces the availability of a supplemental issue of Health Promotion Practice (published by SAGE) entitled "Evaluating Sexual Violence Prevention Programs"</description>
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      <description>Television and New Media (published by SAGE) turns ten this month</description>
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      <description>Television and New Media (published by SAGE) turns ten this month</description>
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      <description>Emotion Review is a new quarterly journal launched this month by SAGE, the world's leading independent academic and professional publisher.</description>
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      <description>Two CQ Press Reference titles have been honored with special recognition: Choice magazine picked Social Security: A Documentary History as a 2008 Outstanding Academic Title and Booklist named Encyclopedia of the First Amendment as a 2008 Editors' Choice.</description>
      <link>http://www.sagepub.com/repository/binaries/press/2009/cqp_reference_titles_awarded.pdf</link>
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      <description>SAGE announced today that it has signed an agreement with e-Healthcare Solutions (e-HS) to sell, deliver and manage all online advertising sales for its specialty medical journals.</description>
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      <description>The online versions of the journals of the American Orthopaedic Society of Sports Medicine (AOSSM), which are published by SAGE, are being launched today with new features and improved functionality. The American Journal of Sports Medicine, now in volume 37, and Sports Health: A Multi-Disciplinary Approach, a January 2009 launch, will publish on the new site today.</description>
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      <description>SAGE and Alexander Street Press's Counseling and Psychotherapy Transcripts, Client Narratives, and Reference Works has been honored as a 2008 CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title.</description>
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      <title>Understand Crime and Justice from a Racial and Ethnic Perspective with SAGE Reference's Unique, New Encyclopedia of Race and Crime</title>
      <description>The study of race and crime has a long history in the disciplines of criminology and criminal justice, but it was not a recognized area of study until the last quarter of the 20th century.</description>
      <link>http://www.sagepub.com/repository/binaries/press/2009/encyclopedia_of_race_and_crime.pdf</link>
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      <description>The Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences (CASBS) at Stanford University has received a $1.5 million gift from Sara Miller-McCune and SAGE Publications to endow the SAGE Sara Miller-McCune Fellowship at the Center. Sara Miller-McCune is the company’s founder and chairman.</description>
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      <description>ICAN: Infant, Child, and Adolescent Nutrition, the latest journal to be launched by SAGE, is rolling off the press this month. It will reach 11,000 primary caregivers who treat patients in pediatric nutrition.</description>
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      <description>CQ Researcher and CQ Global Researcher, published by CQ Press, received the highest scores of all products evaluated in Library Journal's recent Current Events E-Reference Ratings, published in the November 15, 2008 issue.</description>
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      <description>SAGE is pleased to announce its support of a new ALA (American Library Association) scholarship, the Peter Lyman Memorial/SAGE Scholarship in New Media.</description>
      <link>http://www.sagepub.com/repository/binaries/press/2008/peter_lyman_ala_scholarship.pdf</link>
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      <description>As a way to help both the sick and their medical care providers to make the best healthcare decisions possible, a special section of the current November/December 2008 issue of Medical Decision Making examines three current evidenced-based theories that can help to improve assessments, assist in prevention programs, and help with intervention efforts</description>
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      <description>Dr. Thomas S. Roukis, DPM, PhD, FACFAS, has been selected to manage a section in the Foot and Ankle Specialist, a leading journal for caregivers who specialize in foot and ankle care</description>
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      <description>SAGE, the world's fifth largest journals publisher, has partnered with the American College of Toxicology (ACT) to publish its official publication, the International Journal of Toxicology (IJT), beginning in 2009.</description>
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      <description>SAGE, the world's fifth largest journals publisher, is pleased to announce a key new addition to its prestigious Board of Directors: Gretchen M. Bataille, President of the University of North Texas (UNT).</description>
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      <description>The election of Barack Obama, America's first African-American president, was a watershed moment in U.S. racial politics. The election is being hailed as a statement about the progress America has made beyond destructive and divisive racial politics.</description>
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      <description>SAGE, the world's fifth largest journals publisher, announced today that the first two titles in its Therapeutic Advances (TA) series have now been accepted for indexing in MEDLINE. As a result, both titles will be indexed on the PubMed website.</description>
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      <description>A growing, more international and diverse membership is expected by many scholarly societies in the next five years, according to the results of a survey just released by SAGE.</description>
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      <description>SAGE Partners with FEDLINK to Offer Electronic Resources to Federal Libraries - November
        Description: SAGE announced today that it has signed an agreement with the Federal Library and Information Network (FEDLINK), to provide its online products to participating US federal libraries.</description>
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      <description>Research conducted on the International Space Station (ISS) ensuring that astronauts could accurately perform remotely-guided sonograms was published in the November/December 2008 issue of the Journal of Diagnostic Medical Sonography (published by SAGE).</description>
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      <description>SAGE, the world's fifth largest journals publisher, is pleased to announce that, beginning this month, the Journal of Pharmacy Practice (JPP) will become the official journal of the New York State Council of Health-system Pharmacists (NYSCHP). As part of the new agreement, the society's former journal: New York State Journal of Health-System Pharmacist (NYSJHP) will merge with JPP.</description>
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      <description>The American Sociological Association's Section on Teaching and Learning Sociology honored SAGE and its sociology imprint Pine Forge Press at its 2008 meeting in August for the SAGE and Pine Forge Press Teaching Innovations and Professional Development Award, now in its second year.</description>
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      <description>SAGE Reference's innovative, interdisciplinary, new Encyclopedia of Time: Science, Philosophy, Theology, and Culture surveys the major facts, concepts, theories, and speculations infusing our present and past comprehension of time.</description>
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      <description>SAGE, the world's fifth-largest journals publisher, is pleased to announce that it will become the publisher of Human Factors: The Journal of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society beginning in January 2009.</description>
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      <description>Researchers exploring the tipping points of climate change have won the 2008 Times Higher Education Award for Research Project of the year, sponsored by SAGE.</description>
      <link>http://www.sagepub.com/repository/binaries/press/2008/award_to_east_anglia.pdf</link>
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      <description>In a study of medical students, more serious cardiac risk estimates were given to Christians and less serious estimates for Muslims despite the patients being otherwise identical in their characteristics and symptoms, according to research in an upcoming issue of Medical Decision Making published by SAGE. Risk assessment, the first step in a medical triage process, determines subsequent treatment.</description>
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      <description>The Diabetes Educator (TDE), the leading journal for diabetes educators, will have free online access during National Diabetes Awareness Month in November.</description>
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      <description>SAGE, the world's fifth largest journals publisher, is pleased to announce that, beginning in July, 2008, it became the publisher of five journals on behalf of MENC: The National Association for Music Education.</description>
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      <description>Gender is such an intrinsic part of our identities that we often take it for granted, not realizing the extent to which it influences every aspect of our existence.</description>
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      <description>SAGE and the Brazilian consortium, Coordenação  de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior (CAPES), renewed their agreement to offer member institutions online access to a specially selected package of SAGE journals.</description>
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      <description>Celebrities do have the ability to focus awareness on charitable and political causes but their power to move the news machine to shape policy agendas has been oversold, according to recent research published by SAGE in the October issue of The International Journal of Press/Politics (IJPP).</description>
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      <description>Albert Ellis is generally regarded as one of the most influential psychologists of the 20th century. He was the intellectual founder of "cognitive behavior therapy." Now, SAGE is offering the final text written by Ellis: Personality Theories: Critical Perspectives.</description>
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      <description>SAGE announced today that the Southeastern Library Network (SOLINET) has signed an agreement with SAGE to offer both SAGE eReference and the SAGE Deep Backfile package to participating members.</description>
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      <description>SAGE eReference platform was once again honored, recently earning an Annual Award for Publication Excellence (APEX) in the web and intranet sites category. This honor follows the platform's selection as a 2007 Choice Outstanding Academic Title and a 2007 Library Journal Best Reference earlier this year.</description>
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      <description>Research exploring the spreading of facts, cultural diversity in the arts, computer memory storage, and climate change are among the projects shortlisted for the 2008 Times Higher Education (THE) Awards research project of the year, sponsored by SAGE.</description>
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      <description>SAGE and Alexander Street Press’ unique research and training mental health resource, Counseling and Psychotherapy Transcripts, Client Narratives, and Reference Works, is being enhanced by the addition of hundreds of  new transcripts from Verilogue over the next year.</description>
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      <description>Mangled bodies, gunfire, high-speed chases and injured children are just a few events witnessed by police officers and soldiers serving in dangerous hot spots around the world. These traumas take a high toll on the police officers and soldiers, who suppress human emotions to get the job done and can be reluctant to share their experiences in an effort to spare others from their ordeals, according to a September Police Quarterly article (published by SAGE).</description>
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      <description>SAGE, the world's fifth largest journals publisher, is pleased to announce that it will be publishing Biblical Theology Bulletin (BTB) starting in February 2009.</description>
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      <description>SAGE-Hindawi today announced the launch of the Journal of Dental Biomechanics (JDB), the second open access title to be launched in the joint collaboration between SAGE and the Hindawi Publishing Corporation.</description>
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      <description>SAGE, the world's leading independent academic and professional publisher, today announced the acquisition of Language and Speech and International Journal of Bilingualism – the two journals currently owned and published by Kingston Press.</description>
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      <description>What are the psychological and social roots of terrorism? Can human behavior be changed to prevent terrorist violence? SAGE, in conjunction with the Foundation for the Advancement of Behavioral and Brain Sciences (FABBS), is sponsoring a thought-provoking Science Café to discuss those vital issues.</description>
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      <description>On the seventh anniversary of the September 11th attacks, what is the nature of the terrorist threat against the United States and other nations of the world and how should the next President address that threat upon taking office in January 2009?.</description>
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      <title>Delve Into the Mystery, the Intricacies, and the Sacred of African Religion with SAGE Reference's Unprecedented, New Encyclopedia of African Religion.</title>
      <description>Africa is the second largest continent in the world. Yet its intellectual and cultural contributions are among the least understood.</description>
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      <description>It may cost money to improve the quality of nursing care through increases in staffing or work environment changes but those costs may be offset through improved patient outcomes and nurse retention, according to research in a Special Issue of Policy, Politics and Nursing Practice published by SAGE.</description>
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      <description>Offering health tests and consultations in primary care settings can be cost-effective and may help in the fight against the increased burden of lifestyle diseases, according to new research published by SAGE in the August issue of the Scandinavian Journal of Public Health.</description>
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      <description>SAGE Reference's monumental, new, three-volume Encyclopedia of the Social and Cultural Foundations of Education presents the interdisciplinary field's vast quantity of scholarship and knowledge in the only comprehensive reference work of its kind.</description>
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      <description>SAGE announced today that The Journal of the Royal Society for the Promotion of Health will be changing its name to Perspectives in Public Health beginning in 2009.</description>
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      <description>SAGE Reference's monumental, new, three-volume Encyclopedia of the Social and Cultural Foundations of Education presents the interdisciplinary field's vast quantity of scholarship and knowledge in the only comprehensive reference work of its kind.</description>
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      <description>SAGE, the world's fifth largest journals publisher, announced today that it has become a Serials Solutions KnowledgeWorks Certified content partner, thereby ensuring that bibliographic data relating to SAGE journals and SAGE journal packages are as accurate and up-to-date as possible in the Serial Solutions KnowledgeWorks knowledgebase.</description>
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      <description>SAGE Reference's comprehensive, in-depth, new Encyclopedia of Survey Research Methods is the only available resource of its kind. It examines the multitude of methods that today's survey methodologists and statisticians use to conduct reliable and valid surveys.</description>
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