SAGE Publishing expands data offering with the purchase of Data-Planet

SAGE Publishing has today announced the purchase of Data-Planet, a statistical multidisciplinary data repository that has application in academic libraries, public libraries, government and commercial markets. Speaking of the purchase Karen Phillips, Senior Vice President Global Learning Resources, SAGE commented: “Data-Planet marks another exciting leap forward for SAGE in our data offerings to the library and research community. It transforms our data publishing, both increasing the scale of data that we offer; the range of data including global data; and the versatility of analysis that Data-Planet offers the researcher. We are delighted to welcome Data-Planet to SAGE, the product has a great fit with our existing data products, and  enables us to deliver the leading social science statistical solutions for both students and researchers.” Data-Planet Statistical Datasets is the largest collection of organized statistical data and is used by many of the world’s leading research universities. Covering 16 major subject categories (including education, health and vital statistics, international relations and trade), it brings to SAGE 35 billion data points from over 450 databases sourced from 70 public and private organisations. Data-Planet provides immediate access to data presented in charts, maps, graphs and table form, via multiple points of entry further enabling and facilitating comparison within and to all other datasets within the Data-Planet repository. Richa...
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