Vendor Partner COVID-19 Support: SAGE for Academic Libraries

WiLS has received this information from SAGE:

We at SAGE want to make every effort to provide your members the access needed to our resources during this unprecedented time. Jeff, feel free to pass along the below message to your members.

SAGE would like to provide 90-day access to our digital resources by IP authentication. (Unfortunately, we can’t legally drop the paywall altogether due to contracts with license partners and doing so would jeopardize usage analytics for customers in need of ROI reporting.  However, we want to make things as simple for you as possible.)

For access to SAGE Video, SAGE Research Methods Video and SAGE Knowledge Books & Reference please fill out this form to receive institution-wide access. We will do our best to turn on access within 24 hours, but due to demand it may take longer.

Our commitment to you is that these requests will not be treated as sales opportunities, and the only follow-up you will receive from us will be to make sure you have everything you need to make these resources work for your campus. For the immediate future, SAGE will be pausing additional email outreach and contacting you only when we have resources that directly support your library, faculty and students.

You should also know that SAGE has also taken steps to ensure the continuity of our business and service to our customers; our platforms will be operating as normal and any support issues should be logged in the usual way.

Free textbook access:
SAGE is committed to helping you and your students through this uncertain time.  For remote teaching information please see resources here: https://us.sagepub.com/en-us/nam/remote-teaching-solutions.

We are working with VitalSource and RedShelf to provide quick, easy, and free access to our SAGE textbook content through May 25th.

To learn more about the respective partner programs available—including how to access content—please see:

• RedShelf: https://www.about.redshelf.com/redshelfresponds
  • Students log into RedShelf (https://redshelf.com/) using their school email address. If they do not have a RedShelf account, they can register for one. Students can then add 7 no-cost titles from participating publishers to their “My Shelf”

• VitalSource: https://get.vitalsource.com/vitalsource-helps
  • Students log in to VitalSource Bookshelf  (https://bookshelf.vitalsource.com/) using their school email address
  • Once logged in, they will click on “Explore” to select 7 no-cost titles at one time from participating publishers. If they do not have a BookShelf account, they can register for one.

If you need further assistance regarding textbooks, please contact Lisa Kostecki () – Director, Channel Sales.

Here are some additional resources and actions that may be of interest to you:

• Free resources for faculty to help transition to teaching online and free access to content such as eTextbooks, LMS resources, and SAGE Vantage courseware, including content from select textbooks and everything needed to run a course online.
• The following is a dynamic embed code for World Health Organization Coronavirus data made available via Data Planet which may be added to web applications—a website, a LibGuide, a WordPress blog—to enrich your own content: <iframe src=”https://statisticaldatasets.data-planet.com/dataplanet/embed?view=hRIWreRhEP8ISbgefgGygv$Rnrg=” width=”960″ height=”569″></iframe>
• A continuously updated collection of the latest free-to-read medical and social and behavioral science research from SAGE related to COVID-19 and its consequences
• We will fast track and publish open access, without any article publishing charges, accepted research articles from your faculty that are relevant to the current pandemic.

If you need access to additional SAGE resources, please let Danielle Afdem () know – in fact, we welcome requests and suggestions from you about how SAGE can make your life easier at this time.