PROPOSAL GUIDELINES

This booklet outlines what our Commissioning Editors find useful in a book proposal.

The Sage Books Author Hub

As a leading international publisher of books, journals and electronic media, we work closely with authors and editors to produce the most outstanding works in the fields in which we publish. Here you’ll find a selection of handy resources - for both prospective and current authors - that are designed to make submitting a book proposal or publishing your book as easy as possible.

SAGE Knowledge includes an expansive range of SAGE eBook and eReference content, including scholarly monographs, reference works, handbooks, series, professional development titles, as well as business case studies, and streaming video - making this the ultimate social sciences digital library for students, researchers, and faculty.

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Sage publishes a number of Open Access articles under our Gold Open Access journals and Sage Choice options.  See below for information regarding the reuse of these articles.

A number of funders require research articles which have resulted from their funding to be made open access. Sage helps authors comply with these mandates either via the gold open access publication route or green open access archiving.

Funder Agencies' Open Access Mandates

Please check with your funder if there is a mandate to publish your research open access and the criteria for compliance. There are other resources which may also be helpful:

Why publish Sage Choice? 

In the fifth edition of our monthly big data and social research newsletter, we explore the SAGE/Campaign for Social Science lecture that was delivered by Beth Simone Noveck, director of The Governance Lab at NYU and former U.S. Deputy Chief Technology Officer, in November. We also highlight a recent LSE Impact blog post written by our very own Katie Metzler, Head of Methods Innovation, about the big data skills gap in the social sciences.   

In the latest edition of the Big Data and Social Research Newsletter, we highlight the Essex Summer School in Social Science Data Analysis 2017, sponsored by SAGE Publishing, which has several courses of interest to social scientists working with big data. We also share news of MethodSpace’s new Big Data Hub, a community space dedicated to the discussion and advancement of big data analysis. Find out more in the latest edition.