Kansas State University
Kansas State University Libraries
Center for the Advancement of Digital Scholarship
2019 CONTACT:Charlene Simser, Team Lead, Center for the Advancement of Digital Scholarship
Phone: 785-532-7444
Email: cads@ksu.edu
Program Overview
NPP will host scholarly journals, monographs, conference proceedings, and open textbooks from any discipline area. K-REx (the institutional repository) collects, distributes, and preserves the research and scholarship produced by faculty, staff, and students along with K-State historical materials.
Publishing Activities Began: 2006
Location: United States
Organization: centralized library publishing unit/department
Stage (1–5): 5 - Established
Open Access Focus (1–5): 4 - Very Important
Program Advisory/Editorial Board: No
Peer Reviewed Journals: 99%
Staffing (in Full Time Equivalents):
Location: United States
Organization: centralized library publishing unit/department
Stage (1–5): 5 - Established
Open Access Focus (1–5): 4 - Very Important
Program Advisory/Editorial Board: No
Peer Reviewed Journals: 99%
Staffing (in Full Time Equivalents):
- Professional staff: 2.5
- Paraprofessional staff:
- Graduate students:
- Undergraduates:
Funding Sources for Publishing Activities:
- Library Materials Budget: %
- Library Operating Budget: 100%
- Non-library Campus Budget: %
- Endowment Income: %
- Charitable Contributions: %
- Grants: %
- Sales Revenue: %
- Licensing Revenue: %
- Charge Backs: %
- Other: %
Publishing Activities
All Library Publishing Activities:- Campus-based Faculty-driven Journals: 10
- Campus-based Student-driven Journals: 3
- Journals Produced for External Groups: 1
- Monographs: 1
- Textbooks: 2
- Technical/Research Reports: 275
- Faculty Conference Papers and Proceedings: 7
- ETDs: 571
- Undergraduate Capstones/Honors Theses: 7
- Newsletters: 3
Open Access Publishing:
- Campus-based Faculty-driven Journals: 12
- Campus-based Student-driven Journals: 2
- Journals Produced for External Groups: 2
- Monographs: 16
Hybrid Publishing:
- Campus-based Student-driven Journals: 1
Highlights
Disciplinary Specialties:
- financial therapy
- agricultural and rural research and policy
- library science
- literature
- education
Top Publications:
- Workplace Writing (book)
- Written Communications for Engineers (book)
- The Economics of Food and Agricultural Markets (book)
- Studies in 20th & 21st Century Literature (journal)
- Kansas Agricultural Experiment Station Research Reports (report series)
Partners
Internal Partners: campus departments or programs; individual faculty; graduate studentsBest publications to refer to our program: College & University Libraries Section of Kansas Library Association; Center for Cognitive Sciences and Semantics at the University of Latvia; Symphony in the Flint Hills; Library Publishing Coalition
Technologies & Services
Media Formats:
- audio
- concept maps or other visualizations
- data
- images
- modeling
- text
Softwares & Platforms:
- DSpace
- Digital Commons (bepress)
Digital Preservation Strategy:
- Amazon S3
- CLOCKSS
- DPN
- LOCKSS
- Portico
Additional Services:
Service Vendors: bepress (for CrossRef DOI assignment), Bowker, - audio/video streaming
- author advisory – copyright
- cataloging
- DOI assignment/allocation of identifiers
- graphic design (print or web)
- hosting of supplemental content
- image services
- ISBN registry
- ISSN registry
- marketing
- metadata
- notification of A&I sources
- outreach
- training
Additional Information
Plans for Expansion & Future Directions:With the expansion of a campus Open/Alternative Textbook Initiative, we anticipate publishing additional OERs each year. Our goals include the addition of 3-5 other publications by end of FY2020.
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