Kansas State University
Kansas State University Libraries
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Primary Contact:
Char Simser
Coordinator of Electronic Publishing, New Prairie Press
785-532-7444
Program Overview
To host peer-reviewed scholarly journals, monographs, conference proceedings, and other series primarily in the humanities and social sciences; make the content freely available worldwide; and contribute to and support evolving scholarly publishing models.
Year publishing activities began: 2007
Organization: centralized library publishing unit/department
Total FTE in support of publishing activities: library staff (0.7); graduate students (0.3)
Funding sources (%): library operating budget (100)
Stage of publishing efforts (1–5):
Open access focus (1–5):
Advisory/editorial board:
Publishing Activities
Library-administered university press publications in 2014:
Library publications in 2014: faculty-driven journals (7)
Number of open access titles:
Number of paid titles:
Number of hybrid titles:
Media formats: text; images; video
Disciplinary specialties: financial therapy; rural research and policy; library science; cognitive sciences and semantics; analytical philosophy
Top publications: GDR Bulletin (journal); Baltic International Yearbook (journal); Journal of Financial Therapy (journal); Online Journal of Rural Research & Policy (journal); Kansas Library Association College and University Libraries Section Proceedings (conference proceedings)
Percentage of journals that are peer reviewed: 100
Percentage of journals assessing article processing charges (APCs):
Internal partners: campus departments or programs; individual faculty
External partners:
Publishing platform(s): bepress (Digital Commons)
Digital preservation strategy: CLOCKSS
Additional services: graphic design (print or web); marketing; training; notification of A&I sources; DOI assignment/allocation of identifiers; digitization; hosting of supplemental content
Additional Information
Plans for expansion/future directions: Publishing open access monographs and conference proceedings and publishing two undergraduate research journals; setting up an advisory board to help set direction and policy and recommend new titles for NPP.View All Entries