Chicago, IL and Los Angeles, CA - Brian E. Coutts, professor and head of the department of library public services at Western Kentucky University, has been awarded the 2014 Association of College and Research Libraries (ACRL) Law and Political Science Section (LPSS) Marta Lange/SAGE-CQ Press Award. The award, established in 1996 by LPSS, honors an academic or law librarian who has made distinguished contributions to bibliography and information service in law or political science.

Los Angeles, CA - Media portrayals of underage sex trafficking include pimps luring girls into prostitution and then controlling, exploiting, and brutalizing them as if they were slaves, but  just how representative are these images? A new study finds that pimps are only responsible for luring minors into sex work in a very small number of cases, and that they are not the reason why young prostitutes stay in the industry. This study was published in a new article from the May issue of The ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science.

New SAGE white paper analyzes the state of reference resources in 2014 and beyond

Los Angeles, CA - To sexually objectify a woman is to focus on her body in terms of how it can provide sexual pleasure rather than viewing her as a complete human being with thoughts and feelings. While objectification has long been considered a problem in the media, how does it affect individual romantic relationships? New research published in Psychology of Women Quarterly, a SAGE journal, finds that more objectification of a female partner’s body is related to higher incidents of sexual pressure and coercion.

London, UK. SAGE Publishing today announces the launch of the Journal of Concussion, a peer-reviewed open access journal focused on providing a multi-disciplinary, broad-based approach to research on head injury and its care.

SAGE Publishing announces that it has expanded its open access program to include monographs, scholarly works that present academic research on a single topic, in-depth. Titled SAGE Open Long Form: Open Access Monographs, the new program will include works that have undergone several layers of review and make them accessible to the broadest community of social, behavioral, and humanities scholars.

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SAGE Publishing today launched its first preprints server for the humanities and social sciences, in partnership with Figshare.

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Amidst today’s changing environment for immigrants, migrants, and refugees, SAGE Publishing announces a new partnership with the Center for Migration Studies (CMS) to publish the International Migration Review (IMR) and the Journal on Migration and Human Security (JMHS).