The National Association of School Nurses selects SAGE to publish its journal

Los Angeles, London, New Delhi, and Singapore (May 2, 2008) –SAGE, the world’s fifth largest journals publisher, will publish the Journal of School Nursing (JOSN) and the NASN Newsletter for the National Association of School Nurses (NASN) beginning in August 2008.

JOSN provides a forum for advancing the specialty of school nursing, promoting the professional growth of school nurses, and improving the health of children in school. Published bi-monthly, it is peer-reviewed and features original clinical, nonclinical, and research articles. It is indexed in MEDLINE, the Cumulative Index to Nursing & Allied Health Literature, PsychINFO, and Scopus.

SAGE is also custom publishing the NASN Newsletter, the bimonthly official newsletter of the National Association of School Nurses.

“We anticipate our partnership with SAGE will help us greatly expand our reach, impact and readership,” said Amy Garcia, RN, MSN, Executive Director of NASN. “SAGE is well-known to nurses, but the marketing and online distribution benefits alone would have made SAGE the obvious choice for us.”

JOSN will be added to SAGE Journals Online (SJO), recently named 2007 “Best Platform” by the Professional and Scholarly Publishing division of the Association of American Publishers. For the first time, libraries will now have access to COUNTER compliant usage statistics, advanced search features, articles published ahead of print with OnlineFirst, Web 2.0 features such as PDA article downloading and RSS feeds, and free linking to all references on HighWire.

The first SAGE issue of JOSN will be August 2008. It will be available on SAGE Journals Online at http://josn.sagepub.com.