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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Open Access Week 2020
The theme of this year’s Open Access Week is “Open with Purpose: Taking Action to Build Structural Equity and Inclusion”. This marks the third year where the open access community… - Blog
Black Lives Matter: IU Libraries Curates Resource List
With the rising awareness and discourse surrounding racial inequity in the United States, you may have noticed several resource lists curated to educate and inform the public… - Blog
Data & Visual Literacy and the COVID-19 Infodemic
This post was contributed by Map & Spatial Data Librarian Theresa Quill. Scholarly and scientific information is distributed in a variety of ways. The COVID19 pandemic has spurred… - Blog
COVID-19 demonstrates the value of Open Access. What happens next?
This is an excerpt from an article published in College & Research Libraries News May 2020. In the wake of COVID-19, many publishers have tacitly agreed that open access is… - Blog
Welcome Karen Stoll Farrell, Interim Head of Scholarly Communication
The Scholarly Communication department is excited to announce that Karen Stoll Farrell has agreed to serve as our Interim Head of Scholarly Communication. She will provide… - Blog
Securing Image Rights for your Publication
Scholarly publications often include images. From reproductions of fine art to scientific graphs, images can enhance an author’s work in many ways. Most publishers require images… - News
Quality textbooks every student can afford
Indiana University recently joined the Open Textbook Network (OTN). Representing over 1,000 institutions, OTN is a consortium of campuses and systems aimed at reducing textbook costs using open educational resources (OER). - Blog
Remixing Our Collections Recap
On February 6th, IU Libraries hosted Remixing Our Collections: Selections from Indiana, a two-hour exhibit that featured artist books, ethnographic field recordings and popular… - Blog
IU System Joins the Open Textbook Network
The IU system has joined the Open Textbook Network (OTN). Representing over 1,000 institutions, OTN is a consortium of campuses and systems aimed at reducing textbook costs using… - Blog
5 Tips to Amplify the Impact of Your Scholarly Work
Individuals, departments and institutions are increasingly concerned with understanding and evaluating scholars, their output and productivity, as well as the impact of their…