Newfound Press Multimedia
Multimedia is the future for new forms of scholarship, though it presents a steep learning curve as authors grapple with the integration of text with audio and video formats, simulations, and interactive features. Finding a publisher for scholarship in digital multimedia formats can be difficult. Yet, audio, video, and other emerging media formats are powerful devices to capture audience attention and communicate complex concepts.
Newfound Press seeks works that feature innovative presentation, particularly multimedia productions that expand knowledge through scientific research, humanistic scholarship or artistic creation. The Press advises prospective authors about standards and best practices for digital production, and draws on campus resources such as Digital Library Initiatives and the Innovative Technology Center to assist authors.
Major elements of multimedia creation are content, design, and technology. Multimedia works fuse navigation with substance, propelling content beyond the written word and hyperlinks by incorporating digital technologies that add value to the subject matter. Experiencing digital multimedia is integral to understanding its message. Authors are responsible for organizing content into a coherent, self-contained presentation with navigation links.
Newfound Press authenticates multimedia works through a peer review process. Criteria for peer review include general considerations applied to all Newfound Press publications (see Information for Authors) and specific factors such as the content, design, visual appeal, and navigability enabling the presentation to convey its intended message.
Authors of multimedia works are invited to contact Linda Phillips, chair of the Editorial Board, to discuss the potential for publishing a project with Newfound Press.
Newfound Press Publications: Conferences
Conference proceedings lurk on the edges of established scholarly publishing traditions. With content that often explores new concepts and possibly untested proposals, conference proceedings are not well-indexed in the standard bibliographic network. Information specialists use the term "gray literature" to describe this scholarship genre. Difficult to find and exposed to varying amounts of peer review, the conference literature is dismissed by some scholars as ephemeral and premature. The observation that conference papers of merit eventually make their way into traditional monograph or journal publications is persuasive. However, if an innovative idea or ground-breaking research result is presented at a conference, the potential for rapid discovery is enhanced through online publication.
Newfound Press advances non-traditional forms of peer-reviewed publication, and gives special attention to works with limited audiences. Conference publications may fit into the Newfound Press framework, given the opportunity for increased access to this non-conventional, fugitive, and specialized scholarly literature. Each conference proceedings published by Newfound Press includes information related to conference papers such as program fliers, presentation audio and/or video files, promotional materials, and a description of the nature of the peer review used by the sponsoring society. Such contextual materials add significant value beyond that available in the traditional published conference literature.
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Democracy and Tradition: A Symposium at The University of Tennessee October 6, 2004 - October 9, 2004 |
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The Road Home: McCarthy's Imaginative Return to the South April 26, 2007 - April 28, 2007 |
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Southern Manuscript Sermons before 1800: A Bibliographic Database Michael A. Lofaro August 2009 |
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