Scholarly works published by the Center in association with the University of Nebraska Press:
- Discover the Great Plains series
- Stephen J. Lavin, Fred M. Shelley, and J. Clark Archer, editors. Atlas of the Great Plains (2011)
- Willa Cather. The Troll Garden. Edited by James Woodress (1983)
- Robert W. Cherny Populism, Progressivism, and the Transformation of Nebraska Politics, 1885-1915 (1981)
- Virginia Faulkner, and Frederick C. Luebke, editors. Vision and Refuge: Essays on the Literature of the Great Plains (1982)
- Merlin Lawson, and Maurice Baker, editors. The Great Plains: Perspectives and Prospects (1981)
- Frederick C. Luebke, editor. Ethnicity on the Great Plains (1980)
- Brian W. Blouet, and Frederick C. Luebke, editors. The Great Plains: Environment and Culture (1979)
Gary E. Moulton, editor. Journals of the Lewis and Clark Expedition
Volume 1
Atlas of the Lewis and Clark Expedition (1983, Reprint 2002)
Volume 2
August 30, 1803-August 24, 1804 (1986)
Volume 3
August 25, 1804-April 6, 1805 (1987)
Volume 4
April 7, 1805-July 27, 1805 (1987)
Volume 5
July 28-November 1, 1805 (1988)
Volume 6
November 2, 1805-March 22, 1806 (1990)
Volume 7
March 23-June 9, 1806 (1991)
Volume 8
June 10,-September 26, 1806 (1993)
Volume 9
The Journals of John Ordway, May 14, 1804-September 23, 1806,
and Charles Floyd, May 14-August 18, 1804 (1995)
Volume 10
The Journal of Patrick Gass, May 14, 1804-September 23, 1806 (1996)
Volume 11
The Journals of Joseph Whitehouse, May 14, 1804-April 2, 1806 (1997)
Volume 12
The Herbarium of the Lewis and Clark Expedition (1999)
Volume 13
Comprehensive Index (2001)
- Paul Schach, editor. Languages in Conflict: Linguistic Acculturation on the Great Plains (1980)
Scholarly works subsidized or assisted by the Center:
- Kaci Nash. The Long Struggle: Standing Bear & the Ponca (2016)
- Tom Lynch, Paul A. Johnsgard, Jack Phillips, editors. Natural Treasures of the Great Plains: An Ecological Perspective (2015)
- John R Wunder, Frances W. Kaye, and Vernon Carstensen, editors. Americans View Their Dust Bowl Experience (1998)
- John R Wunder, editor. Law and the Great Plains: Essays on the Legal History of the Heartland (1996)
- Ralph H. Virgil, Frances W. Kaye, and John R. Wunder, editors. Spain and the Plains: Myths and Realities of Spanish Exploration and Settlement on the Great Plains (1994)
- Frederick C. Luebke, Frances W. Kaye, and Gary E. Moulton, editors. Mapping the North American Plains (1987)
- Warren W. Caldwell, C. Bertrand Schultz, and T. Mylan Stout, editors. Man and the Changing Environments in the Great Plains. A special issue of Transactions of the Nebraska Academy of Science (1983)
- Joan Crane. Willa Cather: A Bibliography (1982)
- Greg Kuzman, editor. Forty Nebraska Poets (1981)
Archival Guides, Inventories, and Surveys published by the Center:
- Alan Nielson, compiler. An Historical Survey of Opera Houses and Legitimate Theaters Built in the State of Nebraska between 1865 and 1917 (1978)
- Janet Warkentin Rife. Germans and German-Russians in Nebraska: A Research Guide to Nebraska Ethnic Studies. Edited by Roger Welsch (1980)
- Joseph Svoboda. Guide to American Indian Resource Materials in Great Plains Repositories (1983)
- Joseph Svoboda and David Dunning. Preliminary Guide to Ethnic Resource Materials in Great Plains Repositories (1978)
Catalogs produced by the Great Plains Art Museum:
- Nebraska Carver Alfred Larson 1866-1963 (1989)
- The Prints of Lyman Byxbe (1991)
- Paintings by Laurie Houseman-Whitehawk, Winnebago Woman Artist (1993)
- The Art of Paul Goble, Author-Illustrator (1995)
- Favorite Forms by Charles M. Russell: Interplay between selected Sculptures, Drawings and Paintings (1996)
- Migrations of the Imagination: Photographs by Michael Forsberg and Drawings, Sculptures, and Quotations by Paul A. Johnsgard and Additional Works of Art (2002)
- Paintings of My People: Paintings by Mark L. Moseman (2004)
- The Canopy Overhead: The Later Years of Dwight Kirsch (2008)
- Celebrating Darwin's Legacy: Evolution in the Galápagos Islands and the Great Plains (2009)
Booklets produced by the Center:
- American Encounters: Lewis and Clark, the People, and the Land (1991)
- Norris from Nebraska (1991)
- Willa Cather's University Days: The University of Nebraska, 1890-1895 (1995)
- Bison Poems: Of Bison and the Great Plains (2002)
- Monticello and Jefferson's West: Inaugurating the Bicentennial of the Lewis and Clark Expedition (2003)