
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
- NewsSarah Hare is now IU Bloomington's dedicated Open Education Librarian. “My time is now completely focused on affordable course materials, open educational reso
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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… - Blog
Course Material Fellowship Program Accepting Applications through September 15
The IU Libraries’ Course Material Fellowship Program is now accepting applications from faculty at the IU Bloomington, IUPUI, IUPUC, and IUFW campuses for the 2021-2022 academic… - Blog
Open Access in Asian and Asian Diaspora Studies
In recognition of Asian Pacific American Heritage Month, and paying tribute to the generations of Asian and Pacific Islanders who have enriched IU Bloomington’s research and… - News
IU Open Access Publishing Partnerships
Under a new collaborative deal, Indiana University authors with articles accepted in the highly-selective PLOS Biology or PLOS Medicine between January 1, 2021 and December 31, 2023 are eligible to publish with no membership fees (also known as Article Processing Charges, or ACPs). In a similar three-year agreement with Cambridge University Press, IU authors will have uncapped open access publishing of eligible and accepted research with no additional costs to authors. - Blog
The Scholarly Communication Department Welcomes New Graduate Student
We are happy to welcome our newest graduate student, MarQuis Bullock. MarQuis is a new master’s student in the Information and Library Science Program (ILS) in the School of…