
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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Navigating Course Material Services at IU Libraries
In response to the ongoing global public health crisis, universities across the country are embracing remote learning models that utilize digital resources. With most instruction… - Blog
Course Material Transformation Fellowships Awarded
The Scholarly Communication Department is proud to announce the inaugural cohort of the 2021 Course Material Transformation Fellowship Program. The IUB Libraries and IUPUI… - Blog
Museum Anthropology Review: A New Era & A New Double Issue
The Scholarly Communication Department is pleased to announce a new double issue of Museum Anthropology Review (MAR) published for the first time by Indiana University Press. MAR… - Blog
Applications for Course Material Fellows Accepted until December 1
According to the most recent survey data from the College Board, the average full-time, on-campus undergraduate student at a four-year school is estimated to have spent $1,240 on… - Blog
IUSW Chalk Talks Explain Information Creation in Academia
IUScholarWorks houses course materials for numerous lectures and seminars across campus. While this content is typically created for a specific class discussion, many of these… - Blog
Welcome Alexus Hunt, Project Coordinator of IU’s Course Material Transformation Fellowship
We’re excited to announce that Alexus Hunt has joined the Scholarly Communication Department as the Project Coordinator for our new Course Material Transformation Fellowship… - Blog
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…