July 24, 2024
Center for the Advancement of Digital Scholarship announces name change
The Center for the Advancement of Digital Scholarship in K-State Libraries is rebranding to the Center for Scholarly Publishing.
"This new name better aligns with the breadth of services this team offers for the faculty and researchers at K-State," said Joe Mocnik, dean of K-State Libraries. "The Center for Scholarly Publishing is an important resource for the university as we endeavor to reach our Next-Gen K-State strategic imperative of growing our research enterprise."
The Center for Scholarly Publishing offers a variety of services to support scholarly publishing and communication. Their librarians can help you, small groups or classes:
- Navigate the choices in academic journal and book publishing, such as where and how to publish, and available options to make a published work free to read.
- Learn how to legally use copyrighted work(s) in your writings and teaching through understanding copyright law.
- Create and manage your scholarly identity to help tell the story of your teaching and research.
- Store and share your works of Research, Scholarly and Creative Activities, and Discovery, or RSCAD, increasing their worldwide reach.
- Create and host open access books, journals and conference proceedings.
- Understand and create data management plans for grant applications.
The center manages several platforms and tools that assist faculty and researchers create and share works, including the K-State Research Exchange, or K-REx, Pressbooks and LibreTexts. The Center for Scholarly Publishing also manages the open access publishing imprint New Prairie Press, which hosts 24 journals and 47 ebooks.
In addition, the center is a dedicated advocate for textbook affordability on campus and serves as an essential resource for faculty interested in developing open access course materials. They help administer the Open/Alternative Textbooks Initiative, which has saved students more than $10 million on textbook costs.
The center's website has been updated with the new name, and additional updates will continue to be made over time.