Press Release For immediate release: 4th February 2003 Researchers and Students Receive Free Access to SAGE Electronic Journals in February and March 2003 SAGE is providing free access to all journals available electronically via ingenta during February and March 2003. This includes full text files for issues being published during the first quarter of 2003, as well as back files going back as far as 1999 (where available). "As a result of the tremendous success of our free electronic access offer in 2001, SAGE is once again opening up access to all our electronic journals." say SAGE executives. "With this offer we are aiming to give librarians the opportunity to promote online resources at their libraries and expose students and faculty to the full range of electronic journals before subscribing." Access is easy and requires no special set-up. Full details about how to access SAGE's journals for free are available on SAGE's website www.sagepub.co.uk/freeaccess. Electronic access is being provided through the intermediary, ingenta. SAGE's electronic journals are currently available all year round to all our institutional subscribers (and members of those institutions) as part of their subscription through a choice of six intermediaries. Ends About SAGE SAGE Publications, one of the world's leading international journal publishers, is a privately-owned company dedicated to the global dissemination of information. SAGE currently publishes over 360 journals across the social and behavioral sciences as well as in medicine, life sciences and engineering. For further information contact: Jane Makoff, Head of Journals Marketing, SAGE Publications, 6 Bonhill Street, London EC2A 4PU, UK Tel: +020 7374 0645 Fax: +020 7374 8741 Email: jane.makoff@sagepub.co.uk www.sagepub.co.uk