Kansas State University
Kansas State University Libraries
Center for Digital Scholarship and Publishingnppress@ksu.edu
http://newprairiepress.org
Twitter: @NewPrairiePress
United States
Primary Contact:
Char Simser
Coordinator of Electronic Publishing
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: professional staff (1.8); undergraduate students (0.1)
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 2015:
Library publications in 2015: campus-based faculty-driven journals (4); monographs (1); faculty conference papers and proceedings (89); ETDs (1161); undergraduate capstones/honors theses (5);
Number of open access titles:
Number of paid titles:
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Media formats: text; images; audio; video; concept maps, modeling, maps, or other visualizations
Disciplinary specialties: financial therapy; rural research and policy; library science; literature; cognitive sciences and semantics
Top publications: Baltic International Yearbook of Cognition, Logic and Communication; Journal of Financial Therapy; Studies in 20th & 21st Century Literature; Online Journal of Rural Research & Policy; GDR Bulletin
Percentage of journals that are peer reviewed: 100
Percentage of journals assessing article processing charges (APCs):
Internal partners: campus departments or programs; individual faculty; graduate students
External partners: 1) College & University Libraries Section of Kansas Library Association; 2) Center for Cognitive Sciences and Semantics at the University of Latvia
Publishing platform(s): bepress (Digital Commons); Dspace; Omeka
Digital preservation strategy: CLOCKSS; DPN
Additional services: graphic design (print or web); marketing; training notification of A&I sources; ISSN registry; ISBN registry; DOI assignment/allocation of identifiers; digitization hosting of supplemental content; audio/video streaming
Additional Information
Plans for expansion/future directions: We are reorganizing and creating a Center for Digital Scholarship and Publishing that will include data services, institutional repository, and continued outreach; we plan to add new journals, conference events, and monographs. Our plans for expansion are in line with the University's strategic directions.View All Entries