The American Association for the Advancement of Science established a collaboration with Stanford University Libraries and The Center for Resource Economics/Island Press (Island Press) in 1996 to find means to utilize internet-based technologies to enhance access to scientific information and improve the effectiveness of information transfer.
The collaborative coined the term Knowledge Environment (KE) to describe the collection of electronic networking tools they were seeking to develop.
SAGE KE published its final issue on 28 June 2006 due to lack of funding.
The interactive content was discontinued during the summer of 2006, leaving the SAGE KE site as an archive by August 2006.
The primary mission of the site is to provide timely commentary and review of recently published articles in the scholarly literature, either directly or indirectly related to aging.