Library Publishing Directory

2019

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):
  • 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: %
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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 students


Best 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
  • bepress (Digital Commons)
Digital Preservation Strategy:
  • Amazon S3
  • CLOCKSS
  • DPN
  • LOCKSS
  • Portico
Additional Services:
  • 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
Service Vendors: bepress (for CrossRef DOI assignment), Bowker,

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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