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 data, 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, data management services, an open journals publishing platform, OER consultations, and a publishing service for texts not publishable by scholarly or commercial presses. We also manage three repositories: IUScholarWorks, IUScholarWorks Open, and IU Data Core.
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
Karen Stoll Farrell
Director, Scholarly Communication and Open Publishing Associate Librarian
Willa Liburd Tavernier
Research Impact & Open Scholarship Librarian Assistant Librarian
Latest Stories
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Announcing the 2022-2023 Course Material Fellowship Program Cohort
The Scholarly Communication Department is pleased to announce our Course Material Fellowship Program (CMFP) 2022-2023 cohort! The CMFP assists IU ... Announcing the 2022-2023… - Blog
The Nelson Memo: Public Access to Research and what this means for researchers
TL;DR The Nelson Memo asks all federal grant agencies, including those providing funding in the Humanities & Social Sciences, to require public access to the peer-reviewed… - Blog
Course Material Fellowship Program Now Accepting Applications through September 12
IU Libraries’ Course Material Fellowship Program (CMFP) is accepting applications for the 2022-2023 cohort! Now in its third year, the ... Course Material Fellowship Program Now… - News
RAPCC journal added to EBSCO databases
Research, Advocacy, and Practice for Complex and Chronic Conditions (RAPCC) has recently been added to two databases on the EBSCO platform: Academic Search Ultimate (ASU) and the Cumulative Index to Nursing and Allied Health Literature (CINAHL Ultimate). RAPCC is an open access journal published by the IU Libraries that focuses on research with the potential to impact the lives of individuals with complex conditions.
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More than free textbooks
Sarah Hare is now IU Bloomington's dedicated Open Education Librarian. “My time is now completely focused on affordable course materials, open educational reso - Blog
Student Spotlight: The Land, Wealth, Liberation Digital Resource
The Scholarly Communication Department is excited to spotlight the students who worked on the recently launched public open-access digital resource – Land, Wealth, Liberation: The… - Blog
Intersections: Technology, the Arts, and Collaborative Scholarship
Heather Sloan, DMA, MLS, Media & Maps Assistant, Herman B Wells Library This reflection on arts-related work involving technology and data is inspired by my two-decades-long… - News
12 PLOS journals, 0 membership fees
Indiana University Libraries expanded its publishing partnership with the Public Library of Science (PLOS). Under a new PLOS All-In Agreement which began January 1, 2022 Indiana University corresponding authors with articles accepted in any of the twelve PLOS journals through 2023 are eligible to publish with no membership fees (also known as Article Processing Charges, or APCs). - Blog
Announcing the 2021-2022 Course Material Fellowship Program Cohort
The Scholarly Communication Department is excited to announce the Course Material Fellowship Program cohort for the 2021-2022 academic year. Following our successful launch of the… - Blog
New Issue of Textual Cultures Published
Textual Cultures: Texts, Contexts, Interpretation has recently published its new issue for 2021. Published annually since 1983, Textual Cultures is devoted to the study of textual…