Frequently Asked Questions - Book Authors

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Signing the Journal’s Contributor License
Sage requires the author as the rights holder to sign a Contributor License for all journal articles we publish.
Sage’s Contributor License is a license agreement under which the author retains copyright in the work but grants Sage the sole and exclusive right and license to publish for the full legal term of copyright. Exceptions may exist where assignment of copyright is required or preferred by a proprietor other than Sage. In this case copyright in the work will be assigned from the author to the proprietor.
What is open access?
Open access content is made freely available to under the terms of a Creative Commons licence. Open access publication is usually subject to payment of an article processing charge (APC) paid by the author, institution or funding body.
Each year, the Sage Foreign Rights Team attends the London Book Fair, the Beijing Book Fair and the Frankfurt Book Fair. If you would like to make an appointment or have a query about our program, contact foreign-rights@sagepub.com. You can also browse our annual Translation Rights Catalogues for title recommendations in each subject area.
Cultivating a research-based approach to developing your practice provides evidence to effect change in your teaching, your classroom, your school, and beyond. Rebecca Austin, author of Researching Primary Education and Senior Lecturer at the School of Teacher Education and Development at Canterbury Christchurch University, highlights the benefits of research to your practice:

Learning doesn’t have to stay inside four walls. Some of the most powerful, memorable teaching moments happen outdoors — and as a trainee teacher, now’s the time to explore how to make that happen.
As the Editor of a Sage Publishing journal, you play a key role in the advancement of knowledge and understanding in your field. Sage, as the world’s leading independent academic publisher, is a values driven organisation, focused on the selection, shaping, curation and dissemination of high quality research outputs; your work as Editor is central to what we do.
While Chinese dishes are known to have one of the highest salt contents of all food categories, new research finds that a cooking training for Chinese take-out chefs and restaurant owners can result in substantial reductions in sodium in the foods they serve with no substantial loss of taste. This study was published today in Public Health Reports.
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