Asbury Theological Seminary
B.L. Fisher Library
First Fruits Press
2020 CONTACT:Robert Danielson, Scholarly Communications Librarian
Phone: 859-858-2351
Email: robert.danielson@asburyseminary.edu
Program Overview
First Fruits Press reprints and publishes new material relevant to the Wesleyan-Holiness tradition of Asbury Theological Seminary and for the global mission of the Christian Church for the furthering of the Kingdom of God. We view Open Access Publishing as giving back to God the fruit of our work.
Location: United States
Organization: centralized library publishing unit/department
Stage (1-3): 3 - Established
Open Access Focus (1-5): 4 - Very Important
Program Advisory/Editorial Board: No
Peer Reviewed Journals: 66%
Staffing (in Full Time Equivalents):
- Professional staff: 1
- Paraprofessional staff: 1
- Graduate students: 2
- Library Operating Budget: 100%
Publishing Activities
Types of publications: conference papers and proceedings, faculty; educational resources (ex. textbooks, course modules); journals, campus-based faculty-created; journals, contracted by external groups; monographs.2019 | Open Access | Paid | Hybrid | |
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Campus-based Faculty-driven Journal | 4 | 4 | 4 | 2 |
Campus-based Student-driven Journals | ||||
Databases | ||||
ETDs | ||||
Faculty Conference Papers and Proceedings | 4 | 14 | 14 | 14 |
Journals for External Groups | 1 | 1 | 1 | |
Monographs | 10 | 316 | 316 | 315 |
Newsletters | ||||
Student Conference Papers and Proceedings | ||||
Technical/Research Reports | ||||
Textbooks | 1 | 2 | 2 | 2 |
Undergraduate Capstones/Honors Theses |
2019: New publications from July 2018 to June 2019. Journals include titles actively publishing during the date range. Other publication types include items that were published or added to repositories for the first time within the date range.
OA/Paid/Hybrid: Publications currently published and/or available online. OA (open access) publications do not include counts for hybrid publications. Hybrid publications are those that may be offered in some form as OA, but are also available as a paid version.
Highlights
- The Asbury Journal (journal)
- Faith and Philosophy (journal)
- Elementary New Testament Greek (textbook)
- Soul Care: Deliverance and Renewal Through the Christian Life (monograph)
- Holiness Through the Ages: An Historical Reader of Christian Writers on Holiness (monograph)
- Wesleyan-Holiness
- Christian missions
- Christian life
- biblical studies
- church history
Partners
Internal Partners: campus departments or programs; individual faculty; graduate studentsOpeness to Partners: Consider external partners if there is a tie to my institution (e.g. local editor of a journal for an external scholarly society)
Best publications to refer to our program: Materials related to the Wesleyan-Holiness religious tradition.
Technologies & Services
- audio
- text
- Digital Commons (bepress)
- analytics
- author advisory – copyright
- cataloging
- copyediting
- digitization
- DOI assignment/allocation of identifiers
- graphic design (print or web)
- ISBN registry
- print-on-demand
- typesetting
- In-house