London, UK. SAGE Publishing today announces that it is to begin publishing the Alternative Law Journal (AltLJ), Australia’s leading law reform journal in partnership with the Legal Service Bulletin Co-operative Ltd in Melbourne, Australia.
London, UK. Leaving work at the office and home at the door may not always be the best strategy for employee well-being and performance, finds a new study published in the journal Human Relations by SAGE Publishing in partnership with The Tavistock Institute.
London - Social scientists suggest that we view workers in distasteful professions who do our “dirty work” as tainted – physically, socially or morally. Now researchers have named emotion as a fourth form of dirt and explain why professions dealing with difficult or threatening emotions are stigmatised by society.
SAGE Publishing today launched its first preprints server for the humanities and social sciences, in partnership with Figshare.
Study shows homosexuals are 5% less likely to be offered job interview in UK
A new study shows that discrimination of gay and lesbian job seekers is commonplace within both private firms and the public sector in the UK.
The research, carried out by Dr Nick Drydakis of Anglia Ruskin University and published by SAGE in the journal Human Relations, involved 144 young people – all first-time job seekers – making 11,098 applications.
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:
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:
London – SAGE one of the world’s leading independent academic and professional publishers today reported more than 11 journals ranked in the two top tiers, 4* and 4, in The Association of Business Schools’ (ABS) Academic Journal Guide 2015.
SAGE Publishing today announces an expanded partnership with EBSCO Information Services (EBSCO) to broaden the availability of SAGE’s journals portfolio to North American public, corporate, medical, and other special libraries. With this partnership, EBSCO will begin selling SAGE’s journal packages and collections, which are housed on the recently relaunched SAGE Journals platform. SAGE will continue to partner with EBSCO for journal and e-package subscriptions in the academic markets globally as well.
London, UK. Santa Claus performers struggle with fulfilling the role of old St Nic due to an acute awareness of the sensitivities around interactions with children, finds a study published by SAGE, in partnership with The Tavistock Institute, in the journal Human Relations.
As the author of the study, “Recognition and the moral taint of sexuality: Threat, masculinity and Santa Claus”, Philp Hancock of the University of Essex explains:
London, UK. Diversity in the boardroom is key to advancing lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT)- inclusive polices, finds a study published by SAGE in the journal Human Relations, in partnership with The Tavistock Institute.