Kansas State University

Hale Library

Academic Library · United States

• https://lib.k-state.edu/services-support/scholarly-communication/
• CADS@ksu.edu

Center for the Advancement of Digital Scholarship

https://lib.k-state.edu/services-support/scholarly-communication/

Ryan Otto, Scholarly Communication and Digital Scholarship Librarian
Email: CADS@ksu.edu

Program Overview

Mission/Objectives:
Further our land-grant mission by supporting the creation, housing, enabling discovery of, and providing open access to unique and impactful works of research, scholarly, and creative activities, and design created by the K-State community and beyond. Support the success of journals and conferences affiliated with K-State through offering publishing tools, platforms, and services.

• Publishing activities began: 2004
• Stage of publishing efforts: 3 - Established
• Open access focus: Central to mission
• Portion of Open Access publications: All
• Publishing Languages: English

Program Organization

• Organization of publishing services: Centralized library publishing unit/department
• Advisory/editorial board: No
• Total staffing in Full Time Equivalents (FTE): 3
• Individual people: 4
• Students: Undergraduate student(s)
• Funding sources: Library operating budget

Publishing Activities

• Conference papers and proceedings
• Datasets
• Educational resources
• Electronic theses and dissertations (ETDs)
• Expansive digital publications
• Grey literature
• Journals
• Monographs
• Multimedia
• Newsletters
• Posters

Highlights

Partners

• Other publishing entities administered by your library: No
  
• Other publishing entities within your library’s parent institution: Yes
  The university's extension publishing. We host the research reports journal for them.
• Program’s openness to working with external partners: Consider external partners if there is a tie to my institution (e.g., local editor of a journal for an external scholarly society)
• Part of a consortium which provides support for publishing? (e.g. platform, funding): No

Technologies & Services

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Policies