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Faculty: Use K-REx to increase impact of publications

krex.k-state.eduK-State faculty will publish somewhere in the neighborhood of 1,100 articles this academic year, but how many of those articles will reach readers who want to see them? If you’re relying only on the publisher’s distribution channels through subscriptions, you’re missing much of your audience.

The K-State Research Exchange (K-REx) is operated by the K-State Libraries and is an archive of the scholarly research and publications of K-State faculty and students. K-REx is an “open access repository” with all work deposited in K-REx freely available on the Web. In addition, K-REx uses protocols that optimize discovery by Google and other search engines.

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