A-Z Databases: SAGE Journals Online: Library Guide

Introduction to SAGE Journals (2023) Available at: https://vimeo.com/774997621 (Accessed: 14 July 2023).

Use to find good quality full text peer reviewed journal articles about the Health Sciences, Social Sciences and Humanities, Materials Sciences and Engineering and Life and Biomedical Sciences.

Subject areas include:

• Business & Management
• Communication & Media Studies
• Criminology & Criminal Justice 
• Education
• Geography, Urban Studies & Planning
• Health & Nursing
• Language and Linguistics
• Orthopedics, Sports Medicine & Rehabilitation
• Politics, Public Administration & International Relations
• Psychology & Counseling
• Religion
• Research Methods & Evaluation
• Social Work & Social Policy
• Sociology, Gender Studies & Cultural Studies

If you are experiencing difficulties accessing any resources or would like to discuss your searches, referencing or related matters, please contact library staff:

Email library@uws.ac.uk or log a call on the Self Service Portal.

• Self Service Portal

  All students and staff members have access to an online Self Service Portal to search through the answers to FAQs, log calls or place service requests and review the progress of any submitted requests.

Go to Databases A-Z and select "SAGE Journals online".

Select Institutional access, then click on Open Athens and type in University of the West of Scotland (UWS).

Use your student/staff username and password to access.

SAGE Journals produces a comprehensive user guide, where you can search and browse more than 1,000 journals across a range of disciplines. 

If you would like to find more information about  SAGE Journals, then visit the Introduction to SAGE Journals video on the website with hints and tips for students, staff and researchers.  

Visit the SAGE Journals dedicated discipline pages for the latest news, resources, books, journals and other content related to your area of study and research.

Found the ideal journal?

Then sign up and receive alerts:

• When new articles are published online

• With the latest Table of Contents

Locate the Sign up button on the front page of your chosen SAGE journal and follow the instructions. 

Use the search box on the main page to enter the title of your journal or keywords for your topic to find either journals or articles.

The Advanced search feature allows you to use keywords to search in a particular SAGE journal and apply limits such as publication dates.  There is also an option to limit results to full access articles that UWS subscribes to.  

A Citation search via Journal bibliographical details is an additional feature available.

You can refine your search further by applying the following limits:

• publication date
• full text access to UWS subscribed journals
• Individual journal titles

SAGE Journals provides a comprehensive search help page on using BOOLEAN Operators, Parenthesis and Wildcard/ truncation searching.  

Boolean Operators  (Advanced Search option)

The Boolean operators AND, OR, and NOT can be applied to search terms.

• AND (also + or &)

Use AND to search for documents containing two or more terms. For example, the following query returns documents containing both cat and dog:  cat AND dog

The AND operator is applied by default; for example cat AND dog produces the same results as cat dog.

• OR

Use OR to search for documents containing at least one of two or more terms. For example, the following query returns documents containing cat, documents containing dog, and documents containing cat and dog:  cat OR dog

• NOT (also -)

Use NOT to search for documents that do not contain a given term. For example, the following query returns documents containing cat but not containing dog:  cat NOT dog