PRESS RELEASE

Leeds, UK 5 March 2007

SAGE AND MANEY EXCHANGE JOURNALS

SAGE Publications and Maney Publishing are pleased to announce today (5 March) an exchange of Maney journals Chronic Illness and Journal of Endotoxin Research and SAGE journal Comparative American Studies. 

Stephen Barr, managing director of SAGE Publications welcomes the deal: “Chronic Illness and the Journal of Endotoxin Research complement SAGE's existing portfolio of over 400 academic and professional journals and enhance significantly its offering in the health and medical market.  We look forward to working with the International Endotoxin and Innate Immunity Society (IEIIS), and with the Editors of both journals for the continuing success and development of these titles.”

He continued:  “Our new global programme now includes 113 journals across the health sciences.  We have an excellent international mix in our medical publishing business, which will reinforce our reputation as the natural home for authors, editors and societies, on a global scale.  We have enjoyed publishing Comparative American Studies since 2003, but we believe that Maney will be in a better position to develop the success of the journal over the coming years.”

Maney has published Chronic Illness since 2005, working with a distinguished editorial board to develop the journal's reputation and achieving MEDLINE listing in 2006. Maney has also enjoyed a successful relationship with IEIIS in publishing the Journal of Endotoxin Research. 

Michael Gallico, managing director of Maney Publishing, is pleased to pass the journals to SAGE and welcomes the new journal: “Chronic Illness and the Journal of Endotoxin Research will benefit from SAGE's expertise in health sciences publishing, whilst we are delighted to add Comparative American Studies to our humanities list. The journal will extend the range of our existing language and literature collection to cover American studies, which is hugely important as Maney's presence continues to grow in the USA.” 

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For further information please contact:

Juliet Upton, SAGE Publications

Tel.  +44 (0)7811 440918  email: juliet.upton@sagepub.co.uk

Alison Holgate, Marketing & PR Assistant, Maney Publishing. 

Tel: 0113 386 8160 Email: a.holgate@maney.co.uk  

NOTES FOR EDITORS

1.  About the journals:

Comparative American Studies is an international journal that extends scholarly debates about American Studies beyond the geographical boundaries of the United States, repositioning discussions about American culture within an international, comparative framework. The main disciplines covered in the journal are: literature, film, popular culture, photography and the visual arts. Attention is also given to history, the social sciences and politics, particularly insofar as these fields impact on cultural texts. For more information please visit www.maney.co.uk/journals/

Chronic Illness provides a forum in which researchers from a wide range of disciplines, clinicians, policy makers, and people living with chronic illness come together to clarify the common principles underlying the experience and management of chronic illness. Publishing high-quality original research, its aims are to inform practice and policy in relation to chronic illness and to provide rigorous insight into the experiences of people living with long-term medical conditions. For more information please visit www.sagepub.co.uk/
 

Journal of Endotoxin Research is the official Journal of the International Endotoxin and Innate Immunity Society (IEIIS). The Journal provides a single forum for the dissemination of new information on endotoxin and innate immunity to researchers in a variety of scientific disciplines. The subject areas of interest include research in chemistry, microbiology, molecular biology, immunology, cell biology, pharmacology, infectious disease and clinical medicine. For more information please visit www.sagepub.co.uk/ 

2.  About SAGE Publications

SAGE Publications is a leading international publisher of journals, books, and electronic media for academic, educational, and professional markets. Since 1965, SAGE has helped inform and educate a global community of scholars, practitioners, researchers, and students spanning a wide range of subject areas including business, humanities, social sciences, and science, technology and medicine. A privately owned corporation, SAGE has principal offices in Los Angeles, London, New Delhi, and Singapore. www.sagepub.co.uk.

3.  About Maney Publishing

Maney Publishing was founded in 1900 and has offices in the UK in Leeds and London, and in Cambridge, Massachusetts. With a collection of over 70 journals in materials sciences, the humanities, and healthcare, Maney is committed to publishing high quality journals in print and electronic formats that are international in scope and peer-reviewed. Maney publishes extensively for learned societies, universities and professional bodies. Please visit www.maney.co.uk for more information.