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SAGE publishes major new report calling for £470m annual increase in UK's social science and innovation budget over the next Parliament

London, UK –  SAGE, a leading independent academic publisher, and strong advocate for the social sciences, today published a major new report, written by the Campaign for Social Sciences (CfSS) highlighting the value of social sciences to the UK economy and society.

The Business of People: The Significance of Social Science over the Next Decade calls for at least a 10 per cent increase in real terms of the £4.7 billion annual budget for science and innovation over the next parliament.


Parents are not more likely to split up if mothers earn more than fathers

Couples with young children are as likely to stay together if the mother is the main breadwinner rather than the father, new research shows. 

A paper published in the journal Sociology today says the relationships of parents are in some cases more stable if the mother earns more than the father.  

Dr Shireen Kanji, of the University of Leicester School of Management, and Dr Pia Schober, of the German Institute for Economic Research, Berlin, examined survey data on 3,944 British couples as their first child aged from eight months to seven years.  






Free public access to BP energy data

Award-winning digital publisher to release 3D Energy Data Visualization Tool for 30-day free access

Adam Matthew are enabling free public access for one month to their innovative ‘Energy Data Visualisation Tool’, which uses the latest web-based information visualization techniques to represent a vast array of data on global energy use. Users will be able to access global energy reserves, production and consumption data and explore the huge growth in renewables between 1965 and 2012.


‘Colonial America’ receives ‘Best Reference’ award from Library Journal

Annual Library Journal award celebrates the unique nature of this ‘game-changing’ digital collection

Marlborough. Colonial America: Complete CO5 files from The National Archives, UK, 1606-1822 has been awarded Library Journal’s ‘Best Reference’ title after recently described as a “superb addition to any research collection” in The Charleston Advisor (Vol.17, No.3, Jan 2016).



Records of the East India Company Now Fully Searchable Using Artificial Intelligence

Research The History Of The First Great Multinational Corporation With New Digitised Records Sourced Exclusively From The British Library

 

Students and scholars are now able to navigate their way through newly digitised manuscripts using Handwritten Text Recognition (HTR), with the latest release of new content in Adam Matthew Digital’s landmark primary source collection East India Company.




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