Asbury Theological Seminary
B.L. Fisher Library
Scholarly Communicationsfirst.fruits@asburyseminary.edu
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United States
Primary Contact:
Robert A. Danielson
Scholarly Communications Librarian
859-858-2351
robert.danielson@asburyseminary.edu
Program Overview
In a desire to share the fruit of our academic labor with the world, Asbury Theological Seminary has developed First Fruits Press as an open access press to make academic material available to a global audience. Much of the material is tied to our heritage as a part of the Wesleyan-Holiness Movement and so our publications reflect that tradition. Books, journals, papers, and historic material are freely available for download, while print-on-demand copies are available at the cost of paper and binding. This is part of Asbury Theological Seminary’s institutional mission to provide theological material for the Global Church into the 21st century.
Year publishing activities began: 2012
Organization: centralized library publishing unit/department
Total FTE in support of publishing activities: professional staff (1.5); paraprofessional staff (2); graduate students (2.5)
Funding sources (%): library materials budget (5); library operating budget (95)
Stage of publishing efforts (1–5): 4
Open access focus (1–5): 5
Advisory/editorial board: no
Publishing Activities
Library-administered university press publications in 2018:
Library publications in 2018: campus-based faculty-driven journals (2); monographs (4); textbooks (1); faculty conference papers and proceedings (6)
Number of open access titles: campus-based faculty-driven journals (2); monographs (5)
Number of paid titles:
Number of hybrid titles:
Media formats: text; images; audio
Disciplinary specialties: Christian missions; spirituality; Wesleyan-Holiness tradition; church history; theology
Top publications: The Asbury Journal (journal); The Journal of Inductive Biblical Studies (journal); Transforming Teaching for Mission: Educational Theory and Practice (book); Elementary New Testament Greek (book); God Cannot Do Without America: Matthew Simpson and the Apotheosis of Protestant Nationalism (book)
Percentage of journals that are peer reviewed: 50%
Percentage of journals assessing article processing charges (APCs): 0
Internal partners: individual faculty; graduate students
External partners: Association of Professors of Mission; American Society of Missiology; Federation of Kentucky Academic Libraries
Publishing platform(s): bepress (Digital Commons)
Digital preservation strategy: no digital preservation services provided
Additional services: graphic design (print or web); print-on-demand; typesetting; copy-editing; cataloging; metadata; ISBN registry; DOI assignment/allocation of identifiers; author copyright advisory; digitization
Additional Information
Plans for expansion/future directions:The founder of Asbury Theological Seminary, H. C. Morrison, ran a publishing company called The Pentecostal Publishing Company. He left this company and its works to Asbury Theological Seminary, so this press began as a way to republish rare and hard-to-find material from this tradition. However, it soon became evident that open access provided a great deal of opportunity for other publishing ventures and so we have moved into more and more original works, while still republishing older materials related to our theological tradition. View All Entries