Is big data always better? What training or skillsets do researchers require to conduct social media research? In the latest edition of SAGE’s big data and social research newsletter we share the live twitter Q&A with the editors of The SAGE Handbook of Social Media Research Methods where these questions are addressed.
This month's Big Data and Social Research Roundup we look back the launch of Nesta's Centre for Collective Intelligence Design which will explore how human and machine intelligence can be combined to make the most of our collective knowledge.
Los Angeles, CA - With the advent of non-surgical modalities, stimulation of the brain has become a popular science and researchers must work to ensure systematic methods for consistent results in the study of stroke rehabilitation.
Los Angeles, CA. Independent academic and professional publisher SAGE today announces the launch of SAGE Video, streaming video collections designed to support a range of needs across higher education, including pedagogical use in undergraduate teaching and learning and higher-level academic study and research. Celebrating 50 years as a social and behavioral science publisher in 2015, the first three collections of video content – available now – include Education, Communication and Media Studies, and Counseling and Psychotherapy.
United Kingdom– SAGE, one of the world’s leading independent and academic publishers today announced an agreement made with Manchester University Press to transfer ten of their journals to SAGE. The acquisition follows an earlier agreement to acquire two titles last year.
The 10 titles transferring to SAGE comprise of:
Migration to New Worlds (www.migration.amdigital.co.uk), a collection of materials on the ‘Century of Immigration’, is to be made freely available to all UK academics and students in higher (HE) and further (FE) education institutions from January 2016 thanks to a collaboration between Jisc and Adam Matthew.
Quantitative metrics are important in the evaluation of scholarly research as universities, governments, and funding bodies try to find ways to make their hiring, funding, and investment decisions based on measurable criteria. This has had a significant effect on journals publishing, with the well-known Impact Factor functioning as a ready-made, albeit controversial, indicator of the quality and significance of a published piece of work.
London, UK. SAGE Publishing today announces that six academic journal titles from Intersentia, an independent publishing house specialised in providing legal content for the professional market, will transfer to SAGE, commencing publication in early 2017.
The six titles cover European law, network industry law, labour law, human rights and criminal law. A full list of the transferring journals can be found below:
London, UK. SAGE Publishing today announces that from early 2018 it is to begin publishing the Journal of Perioperative Practice (JPP) on behalf of the Association for Perioperative Practice (AfPP).
Publons, a Clarivate Analytics company and the peer review platform for researchers, announced an extended partnership with SAGE Publishing, one of the world's leading independent and academic publishers. Through Publons' Reviewer Recognition Service, SAGE will provide automated recognition to peer reviewers for up to 1,000 of their academic journals.
