Indiana Publishing: Grey Literature is a free, high-quality, open-access publishing service for IU. We publish texts created by the IU community that are not publishable by scholarly or commercial presses but that are nonetheless worthy of the affordances of a publisher.
This service is overseen by Adam Mazel, Digital Publishing Librarian.
I am glad that I signed on with you.
—Curt Lively, Distinguished Professor of Biology at IU Bloomington
What We Publish
Genres include:
- Books
- non-fiction (monographs, edited collections, memoirs, etc.)
- fiction (novels, short stories, poetry, etc.)
- Companions (Digital projects that accompany and extend traditional print publications)
- Conference Proceedings
Reports
Of particular interest are texts that use digital affordances, such as:
- Multimedia (text, images, audio, video, animations, etc.)
- Interactivity
- Code & Data / Data Analysis / Data Visualization
Who We Publish
We publish texts created by members of the IU community free of charge:
Faculty
Staff
Students
Departments
Centers
Schools
Etc.
How We Publish
Our publishing platforms are:
- Quarto, a cutting-edge, free and open source publishing system that produces high-quality digital publications in almost any format.
- IU's Pressbooks, an open source publishing system for creating books that produces high-quality digital publications in multiple formats
We publish in multiple formats to facilitate access and accessibility:
- HTML (left) for web access, machine readability, and reflowable text
- EPUB for eReaders, accessibility by the disabled, and reflowable text
- PDF for printing
- Print (Optional) for physical / paper copies
What We Provide
Copyright Advice & Assessment
Copyediting
Accessibility
Hosting & Print-on-Demand
Discoverability
Publicity
Bibliometrics
Preservation
& More!
Why Publish with Us
Author Rights: Our authors retain their copyright and can republish their documents elsewhere.
Free for Readers: Our publications are Open Access: available to readers worldwide for free without cost or copyright restrictions.
Free for Authors: Our publications cost authors $0. There are no processing charges or publication fees.
IU Branding: Our publications are certified with the IU imprint and logo.
Multiformat Publishing: Your content is published in multiple formats to broaden access and accessibility.
Low-Barrier Publishing: We publish any manuscript that meets our criteria. We welcome works for readerships of any size and / or that may not meet the financial requirements for publication by traditional presses.
Digital Media: Unlike print publications, our publications can include dynamic and interactive media (video, audio, data visualizations, etc.).
Bibliometrics: Our publications are indexed by Google Scholar and reader counts are provided by Google Analytics.
Publish with Us
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