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• A Short Introduction to Clinical Psychology
• Acute Mental Health Nursing: From Acute Concerns to the Capable Practitioner
• Advertising Cultures: Gender, Commerce, Creativity
• American Political Leaders 1789-2009
• Analyzing Everyday Texts: Discourse, Rhetoric, and Social Perspectives
• Beyond Sex and Gender
• Challenge and Strategy: Rethinking India’s Foreign Policy
• Communicating in Global Business Negotiations: A Geocentric Approach
• Counselling for Post-traumatic Stress Disorder (Third Edition)
• Cultural Issues in End-of-Life Decision Making
• Culture, Society, Economy: Globalization and its Alternatives
• Cybercrime and Society
• Developing Effective Teacher Performance
• Doing Discourse Analysis: Methods for Studying Action in Talk and Text
• Early Literacy Work with Families: Policy, Practice and Research
• Effective Advertising: Understanding When, How, and Why Advertising Works
• Encyclopedia of Sexual Behavior and the Law
• Energy Efficiency and Climate Change: Conserving Power for a Sustainable Future
• Evidence-Based Practice With Women: Toward Effective Social Work Practice With Low-Income Women
• Film Cultures
• Food, the Body and the Self
• French Post-War Social Theory: International Knowledge Transfer
• Gender in the Workplace: A Case Study Approach (Second Edition)
• Globalization and Football
• Handbook of Group Counseling and Psychotherapy
• Handwriting Problems in the Secondary School
• Health Care Policy and Politics A to Z (3rd Edition)
• How To Conduct Organizational Surveys: A Step-by-Step Guide
• Key Concepts in Sport and Exercise Sciences
• Management Accounting: Principles and Applications

SAGE Research Methods with SAGE Knowledge will greatly benefit UCF

students and faculty, and each collection is designed to support teaching and research. The following comments were provided by UCF faculty. These comments speak to how these two products will benefit student learning

and research.

I am enthusiastic in support of the UCF Libraries’ proposal

to purchase both the SAGE Knowledge and the SAGE Research Methods online collections through a Technology Fee grant. Both collections are particularly rich in titles pertaining to my discipline, Communication. For instance, these collections contain such titles as the SAGE Handbook of Organizational Communication, the SAGE Handbook of Conflict Communication, Family Communication Sourcebook, Ongoing Crisis Communication, Gender in Communication, and Controversies in Contemporary Advertising, which map onto our current courses and programs at both the undergraduate and graduate level extremely well. These can be integrated into the campus course management software, thereby making it easier and more efficient to access library resources while logged into online courses. Communication is a rich and diverse field and its cross-disciplinary nature means that a collection as inclusive as SAGE’s will greatly benefit our students’ wide range of interests and applications, and our goals

as a School to offer a variety of specialty areas within the field.

Of particular benefit for our graduate students in the Nicholson

School of Communication are the tools and resources available through the SAGE Research Methods package, with its handbooks, sourcebooks, and videos on quantitative and qualitative analysis, visual methods, online interviewing, ethnography, marketing and advertising research, and media analysis techniques. Research is a core component of our graduate program and is a topic our students often seek additional resources in. A collection that includes comprehensive basics such as the SAGE Handbooks on Quantitative Methods and Qualitative Methods is extremely valuable to our graduate coursework and student research, and so too are more nuanced titles such as Statistics for Marketing and Consumer Research, Virtual Ethnography, and Designing Surveys that allow for more in-depth methodological and analysis application. (Bridget Rubenking, Ph.D.,

Assistant Professor, Nicholson School of Communication)

I believe that SAGE Research Methods with SAGE Knowledge

would be a very useful addition to library resources as part of the tech fee proposal that is being considered. They would benefit Political Science undergraduates as well as graduates who are taking a number of methods classes, or working to increase their methods competency, especially in relation to the recently begun Ph.D. program.

(Waltraud Q. Morales, Professor, Political Science)

This collection of materials would be especially useful for

our undergraduate International and Global Studies major plus would support the work being done in the MA program and the Ph.D in Security Studies. Any support that you need I assume the department would provide but that is the chair’s call, I am copying her on this email. The COS has put money into upgrading the data bases available for advanced work, this collection would further enhance that capability but also have ancillary benefit in also supporting the undergraduate curriculum in IGS which is a core part of the University’s mission statement regarding Internationalization of the curriculum if our graduates at all levels are to be competitive in the global economy and world generally as we see in the current crises impacting the US across the globe. (Roger Handberg, Professor, Political

Science, Graduate Program Director, College of Sciences Prelaw Advisor)

I write in strong support of the purchase of SAGE Research

Methods with SAGE Knowledge. The Political Science Department has approximately 1,200 majors in Political Science and in International & Global Studies, all of whom are required to take a research methods course. In addition, we have appr. 60-70 Master’s students, who also have to take research methods courses at the graduate level, and a new Ph.D. program in Security Studies, which requires 2 advanced research methods courses. The resources offered in SAGE Research Methods are invaluable to our undergraduates, graduate students, and faculty. Nothing of the sort offered in this package is available for students, instructors, and researchers, and this is a crucial addition to the resources provided by UCF to the students. SAGE Knowledge similarly offers a large amount of resources to our undergraduate students in political science and in international and global studies that will be tremendously beneficial to their education. I strongly recommend that UCF buy these two resources, and I fully support the proposal to acquire them. (Kerstin Hamann, Professor & Chair, Political Science and Editor-in-Chief, Journal of Political

Science Education)

I am writing this email in support of tech fee proposal to

purchase SAGE Knowledge and SAGE Research Methods. I am the Program Coordinator of a fully online Master of Research Administration in the School of Public Administration. As you know, the use of internet-based library resources makes information my students need very accessible, especially those located at a distance. Most of my graduate students are located outside of the state. Therefore, I know that my students benefit when resources are made available electronically. I believe the UCF Library has been making great efforts to provide these electronic resources to students and to faculty over the last several years. SAGE has also provided very good research resources and materials that many students use when conducting their own research. I appreciate the efforts of our librarians in promoting the expansion of electronic-based resources as a great benefit to students and faculty alike. (Jo Ann Smith, Assistant Professor, Program Coordinator – Master of Research Administration,

School of Public Administration)

I’m writing today in support of the proposal to purchase

SAGE Research Methods with SAGE Knowledge. I am more familiar with the Research Methods collection, and can tell you that the SAGE guides are really excellent, practical guides for doing all sorts of statistical and other kinds of research. They will be useful for students—particularly grad students but also undergrads—and even faculty trying new research methods. I believe this would be very valuable. (Tom Dolan, Assistant Professor, Political

Science)

I just got a note about the library’s proposed purchase of

SAGE Knowledge and SAGE Research Methods. I am not sure how many of these volumes are currently in the library’s holdings, but if the vast majority of them are not, they really probably should be. I can remember using SAGE books and methods monographs throughout my time doing graduate work at Ohio State and Notre Dame, and their value would cross disciplinary boundaries throughout the social

sciences. (Paul Vasquez, Lecturer, Political Science)

This note is to enthusiastically support the tech fee project

to obtain SAGE Research Methods with SAGE Knowledge, these are very important resources for anyone looking into specific methodological techniques. (Peter J. Jacques, Political Science and Managing Executive Editor, Journal of Environmental Studies and

Science)

I am writing to support enthusiastically the purchase of

SAGE Knowledge and SAGE Research Methods. This would be a great acquisition for the university that would serve well faculty and students. As an instructor of methods at the undergraduate and graduate levels I find this resource to be an invaluable learning tool for our students. Also, as a researcher I would be very fortunate indeed to have access to it. (Barbara Kinsey, Associate Professor &

Assistant Chair, Political Science)

The UCF Libraries is committed to work directly with faculty and

the Faculty Center for Teaching and Learning to publicize these materials. The Libraries will offer informational materials to distribute during various events, such as the Faculty Development Conferences. In addition, librarians will instruct students about SAGE Research Methods with SAGE Knowledge during Information Literacy sessions. SAGE Research Methods with SAGE Knowledge will benefit faculty by providing content for faculty

research and content for course assignments.