
Scholarly Communication
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.
Quick Links
Quick Links
Helpful Resources
- Open ScholarshipIU Libraries' support for authors and researchers working with open scholarship.
- Scholarly Communication BlogRead blogs from our team.
- Open Access GuideGuide to resources for researchers, instructors, and students on using open access resources.
- Open Educational Resource GuideGuide to resources for students and other researchers.
- Open Access Publishing SupportGuide for authors looking to publish research in open formats.
- IUScholarWorksIndiana University's institutional repository.
- IUScholarWorks OpenSearch tool for materials in IUScholarWorks.
- IU Data CoreIU Libraries' support for researchers looking to preserve their data in open formats.
- Open Access Policy ComplianceInformation for researchers looking to publish with open scholarship.
Our Team
Karen Stoll Farrell
Director, Scholarly Communication and Open Publishing • Associate Librarian
(812) 855-5647
Willa Liburd
Research Impact & Open Scholarship Librarian • Assistant Librarian
(812) 856-1122
Adam Mazel
Digital Publishing Librarian • Assistant Librarian
(812) 855-4217
Haley Janelle Norris
Open Education Librarian • Assistant Librarian
(812) 856-0023
Matthew Vaughn
Open Publishing Librarian • Assistant Librarian
(812) 856-6842
Latest Stories
BlogIf you’re considering self-archiving your scholarly work, the natural follow-up question is “Where?” Several services exist that offer archiving and CV-like profiles for scholars. This blog post will examine a few of them, taking note in particular of whether they permit document-uploading, how automatic the CV-generation process is, the costs of the service, and a […]
BlogReference Managers and Institutional Repositories
If you’re actively engaged in research, you probably don’t need to be told how useful reference managers are. Aside from saving citations, I use mine to organize my PDFs and to participate in collaborative bibliography projects. All of this is saved to the cloud so that it’s accessible from any device. Another reason reference managers […]October 22nd, 2025
BlogHow to Cite Works in an Institutional Repository
Indiana scholars use IU ScholarWorks to host a wide range of their scholarly output: manuscripts, dissertations, open educational materials, conference slides and transcripts, event programs, and much more. Some of this material is unique to the repository, but some exists in different forms elsewhere on the web, such as a journal’s website or a conference’s […]October 21st, 2025
NewsIUB OER Programs Save Students $2M+
IUB OER programs saved students $2M+ by funding faculty to create free, open course materials.October 3rd, 2025
NewsPodcast about Library-Published Book
Announcement that New Books Network has done a podcast/interview regarding Afterthought, a book by IU's Heather Akou and published by IU Libraries.March 25th, 2025
NewsPreserve Your Data and Scholarship in IU Repositories
IU Libraries recommends that the IU community preserve its data and scholarship in IU repositories, since they are disappearing from government venues.March 6th, 2025
NewsOpen Educator Award Calling for Nominations
The IU Libraries Scholarly Communication Department is proud to announce the call for nominations for this year’s Open Educator Award and welcomes nominations!February 28th, 2025
NewsSummer Sprint for Zero Textbook Cost
The Summer Sprint Program will provide instructors with a stipend, the expertise of librarians and instructional technologists, and the opportunity to learn aloFebruary 13th, 2025
NewsData Rescue: Federal & State Data
After recent removals of federal content from government websites and repositories, IU Libraries offers a guide to finding this data in other locations.February 13th, 2025
NewsNew Book Published by Library
IUB Libraries Publishing publishes Professor Heather Akou's book, Afterthought: A Family StoryJanuary 27th, 2025


