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Why Publish with Newfound Press?

A university library digital press has its roots in a publishing–friendly culture. The University of Tennessee Libraries launched its digital imprint, Newfound Press, in 2005 to develop a framework for making scholarly and specialized works available through effective and open systems of scholarly communication. Newfound Press extends frontiers of learning by publishing peer-reviewed works in all disciplines, encompassing scientific research, humanistic scholarship, and artistic creation. Members of the Editorial Board represent a spectrum of disciplines and pursue diverse scholarly interests.

Quality is fundamental to Newfound Press. Publications are peer reviewed by subject experts who evaluate the content according to traditional standards for determining scholarly rigor. Newfound Press wants to earn a reputation for offering to researchers and the general public high quality content that might not otherwise be available in a market-driven economy.

New Models for Scholarly Communication

Universities are both creators and consumers in the information economy. A digital library press offers the potential for making scholarly and specialized resources widely available at a reasonable cost. As the research community becomes more aware of the economics of scholarly publishing and its impact on access to their scholarly work, faculty and librarians are collaborating on alternatives to traditional publishing that ensure wide dissemination of research results at a reasonable cost. Fortunately, the Internet and digital scholarship have the potential to change the publishing environment dramatically.

Expanding technologies and new forms of informal publication are creating new interest in university publishing; a recent report by the Ithaka research group urges administrators, librarians, and university presses to work together towards building a shared electronic publishing infrastructure. A March 2007 ARL report, Research Library Publishing Services, confirms that publishing services, driven by campus demand, are becoming core research library services that address gaps in traditional publishing systems.

Scholars welcome the benefits of electronic access to information and are beginning to recognize the potential for presenting the outcomes of their research online. When publication costs can be covered on the front end, one barrier to the free flow of information is eliminated. Universities seeking new publication models are exploring open access publishing that relies on technology to make the costs of acquiring information more reasonable, and to increase the likelihood that research results will be discovered.

Benefits of Publishing with Newfound Press

Collaboration 

  • Newfound Press collaborates with authors and researchers to bring new forms of publication to an expanding scholarly universe. Authors whose works have a narrow focus or are presented through innovative formats are of special interest to the Newfound Press Editorial Board. 

Peer Review

  • Editorial Board members manage the peer review process.

Style

  • Newfound Press provides editorial, design, and promotional services. Library staff apply expertise in desktop publishing, programming, and software expertise to produce publications. The Press secures ISBN and ISSN numbers for authors and editors.

Access & Discovery

  • Online availability through the Web offers exceptionally current access to research and ideas 24 hours per day, 7 days per week.
  • Librarians have a venerable commitment to making information discoverable. We catalog new titles so that they appear in the UT online catalog and in the international bibliographic database, WorldCat.  By adhering to international standards for creating metadata that promotes access, Newfound Press makes the content accessible globally through harvesters like the OAIster union catalog of digital resources. We register journals in the Directory of Open Access Journals and other emerging electronic discovery sources. 

Preservation

  • Publishing with Newfound Press ensures sustainable access through the library community’s emerging digital preservation standards. Placing content with Newfound Press ensures reliable access to the archive of current and back files.

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Promotion

  • Marketing Newfound Press comes naturally to librarians who have vast experience promoting information resources. Among the audiences targeted are users of scholarly information, the publishing community, and librarians.
  • The publishing community is an important partner, particularly publishers of databases that provide access to scholarly work, such as indexing/abstracting producers, citation index services, and reviewing sources. Newfound Press seeks to have publications reviewed widely and to be listed in reference and review sources, as well as in citation, indexing and abstracting databases.