Kansas State University

Kansas State University Libraries

Center for the Advancement of Digital Scholarship

2020 CONTACT:
Charlene Simser, Team Lead, Center for the Advancement of Digital Scholarship
Phone: 785-532-3514
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 (1-3): 3 - Established
Open Access Focus (1-5): 5 - Completely
Program Advisory/Editorial Board: No
Peer Reviewed Journals: 99%

Staffing (in Full Time Equivalents):

Professional staff: 2

Funding Sources for Publishing Activities:

Library Operating Budget: 100%

Publishing Activities

Types of publications: conference papers and proceedings, faculty; conference papers and proceedings, student; educational resources (ex. textbooks, course modules); electronic theses and dissertations (ETDs); journals, campus-based faculty-created; journals, campus-based student-created; journals, contracted by external groups; monographs; newsletters; technical/research reports; undergraduate capstones/honors theses.

	2019	Open Access	Hybrid
Campus-based Faculty-driven Journal	10	14
Campus-based Student-driven Journals	2	3
Databases
ETDs	529	17817
Faculty Conference Papers and Proceedings	269	3510
Journals for External Groups	1		2
Monographs	1	9
Newsletters	2	18
Student Conference Papers and Proceedings	125	338
Technical/Research Reports	188	5182
Textbooks	7	15
Undergraduate Capstones/Honors Theses	1	48

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

Top Publications:

Workplace Writing (textbook)
Written Communication for Engineers (textbook)
Factors Related to Financial Stress among College Students (journal article)
The Art of Being Human (textbook)
Studies in 20th & 21st Century Literature (journal)

Disciplinary Specialties:

financial therapy
agricultural and rural research and policy
library science
literature
education

Partners

Internal Partners: campus departments or programs; individual faculty; graduate students; undergraduate students

Openess 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)

Technologies & Services

Media Formats:

audio
concept maps or other visualizations
data
images
modeling
multimedia/interactive content
text
video

Softwares & Platforms:

DSpace
Digital Commons (bepress)
Pressbooks

Additional Services:

audio/video streaming
author advisory – copyright
cataloging
DOI assignment/allocation of identifiers
graphic design (print or web)
hosting of supplemental content
ISBN registry
ISSN registry
marketing
metadata
notification of A&I sources
outreach
training

Digital Preservation Strategy:

Amazon S3
CLOCKSS
LOCKSS
Portico

Service Vendors: bepress (Digital Commons) for CrossRef DOI assignment; Bowker

Highlighted Publication

Educational Considerations

Educational Considerations is a leading peer-reviewed journal featuring outstanding themes and authors relating to education. Since 1973, it has been published and funded by the College of Education at Kansas State University, and has had a home with New Prairie Press at Kansas State University Libraries since July 2017.