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Open Access

New Prairie Press adheres to the principles of open access publishing as articulated in the Berlin, Budapest, and Bethesda declarations. Open access means offering online content to all readers with no financial barriers to access. The benefits of this publishing model are manifold, and the growing number of open access journals attests to the power of these ideals.

Scope

NPP focuses on journals in the humanities, social sciences, and the arts, as these are areas often underserved by many of the larger open access initiatives. Journals from all disciplines are welcome, however, if the editors seek an open access publisher.

Services offered by NPP

NPP offers scholarly journals a reliable full-spectrum publishing platform. NPP is powered by the open source software Open Journal Systems. OJS can manage any or all parts of journal publication, from submission to final publication and archiving. Journal editors have the ability to define roles for their colleagues and collaborators, making it easy to assign reviewers, copyreaders, and other roles, as well as to manage the review and revision processes.

In addition to our currently published titles--The Baltic International Yearbook of Cognition, Logic and Communication and Online Journal of Rural Research & Policy--we also offer editorial support services for journals such as The Lion and the Unicorn, published by Johns Hopkins University Press. The editors chose to use New Prairie Press to manage the submission and editorial processes with OJS, which underscores its capabilities as a robust journal publication platform.

Making Your Content Visible

NPP leverages emerging technologies to bring journals to as broad an audience as possible. NPP is a CrossRef publisher, which means that we can issue digital object identifiers for articles, enabling better and persistent linking to other scholarly journals.

NPP also manages the process of getting the journal content into key directories and indexes such as the Directory of Open Access Journals and Google Scholar, as well as relevant disciplinary databases.

A major portion of a journal's reputation is determined by the number of citations it receives. To be cited, it must be found. Open access journals are uniquely positioned to reach the largest audience possible, which leads to a greater citation rate.

History

The New Prairie Press was founded by K-State Libraries at Kansas State University in 2007. As the evolution in scholarly publishing continues apace, K-State Libraries decided to join the growing number of libraries who are entering the world of open access publishing.

For More Information

Please direct all inquiries to Dale Askey at daskey at ksu.edu.

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