Los Angeles, CA - Abt Principal Associate and Senior Fellow Jacob Klerman has been named Editor of Evaluation Review (A SAGE Journal). The journal serves as an interdisciplinary forum for researchers, planners, and policymakers who develop, implement, and utilize studies designed to improve the human condition.

Los Angeles - Political messages, throughout history, were delivered to the masses by an elite few through “the power of the press” in newspapers, and later through broadcast media. Then social media exploded onto the scene and everything changed. Suddenly, it’s possible for anyone to share political viewpoints, and with enough friends or followers, swing public opinion. The new, authoritative and comprehensive Encyclopedia of Social Media and Politics from SAGE Reference explores how the rise of social media is now altering politics around the world.

Los Angeles, CA - Leading social and behavioral sciences publisher SAGE today joined with science associations and American universities in opposing the FIRST Act. This act proposes to cut the funding level for the National Science Foundation’s Directorate of Social, Behavioral and Economic Sciences by almost 42 percent and imposes unnecessary and burdensome rules on the proven grant-application procedures and gold-standard merit-review processes overseen by the scholars at the NSF.

Los Angeles, CA - SAGE Reference resources continue to receive recognition for excellence, most recently by Library Journal in their annual Best Reference feature. Library Journal has selected three key SAGE/CQ Press titles to be included in its 2013 list.

Los Angeles, CA - SAGE, a leading independent academic and professional publisher today announced the launch of a new, interdisciplinary Open Access (OA) journal, Digital Health.

Los Angeles, CA - SAGE today announces that it will begin publishing the Journal of Empirical Research on Human Research Ethics (JERHRE) beginning July 2014.

Los Angeles, CA - Both short and tall men in the military are more at risk for depression than their uniformed colleagues of average height, a new study finds. This study was published today in the open access journal SAGE Open.

Los Angeles, CA - SAGE a leading independent academic and professional publisher today launched Multiple Sclerosis Journal - Experimental, Translational and Clinical as an open access (OA) peer reviewed journal.

Official publication of Cornell University ILR School

Los Angeles, CA - SAGE announces today that it has begun publishing ILR Review, official publication of the Cornell University ILR School, the leading academic institution focused on the world of work. In conjunction with this announcement, SAGE and the Cornel University ILR School have made the July and December issues of ILR Review free and open to the public through December 31, 2014.

Los Angeles, US. SAGE is delighted to announce that it will begin publishing Health Environments Research & Design (HERD), a journal that publishes research on the relationships among health and environmental design and organizational, provider, and patient outcomes.

London, SAGE’s Global Publishing Director and author of three books, Ziyad Marar, has today been appointed to The Campaign for Social Science (CfSS) coveted board.

Washington, DC Which state ranks first in per-capita personal income? Which one has the highest crime rate? Which state has the highest percentage of its population graduated from high school? Finding answers to questions like these can take a lot of research and time—unless the researcher has access to the new State Rankings 2015: A Statistical View of America, published annually by CQ Press.