DEPARTMENT

Scholarly Communication

The Scholarly Communication Department supports researchers in sharing and preserving the output of their scholarly work in all forms and at all stages in the research process.
Contact info
Karen Stoll Farrell.
Karen Stoll Farrell
Director, Scholarly Communication and Open Publishing
IUSW@iu.edu
Wells Library E350
1320 E. Tenth Street
Bloomington, IN 47405
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About Us

The Scholarly Communication Department at IU Bloomington Libraries provides infrastructure and services to support the IU community in creating, sharing, and preserving their scholarly work. We believe that equitable access to research and information is foundational to the production of knowledge, and are dedicated to supporting this principle within the IU community.

Across all IU regional campuses, we support Open Scholarship with impact/metrics consultations, an open journals publishing platform, OER consultations and publishing support, and a publishing service. We also manage IU Bloomington's institutional repository, IUScholarWorks.

For IU Bloomington affiliates, our department offers assistance with open access policy compliance and funding for open access publishing.

 

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Our Team

Rivkah Cooke.
Scholarly Communication

Rivkah Cooke

Open Access Publishing Manager

(812) 855-4262

racooke@iu.edu

Karen Stoll Farrell.
Scholarly Communication

Karen Stoll Farrell

Director, Scholarly Communication and Open Publishing Associate Librarian

(812) 855-5647

karsfarr@iu.edu

Adam Mazel.
Scholarly Communication

Adam Mazel

Digital Publishing Librarian Assistant Librarian

(812) 855-4217

amazel@iu.edu

Haley Norris.
Scholarly Communication

Haley Janelle Norris

Open Education Librarian Assistant Librarian

(812) 856-0023

hjnorris@iu.edu

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Willa Liburd Tavernier

Research Impact & Open Scholarship Librarian Assistant Librarian

(812) 856-1122

wtavern@iu.edu

Matt Vaughn.
Scholarly Communication

Matthew Vaughn

Open Publishing Librarian Assistant Librarian

(812) 856-6842

vaughnmr@iu.edu

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