Welcome

The IU Indianapolis University Library Center for Digital Scholarship facilitates open access to knowledge created by IU Indianapolis researchers, students, and affiliated partners. We advocate for open and equitable practices in creating, disseminating, and evaluating scholarship. Read our mission to learn more about our work or contact us to learn more about our services.
 

Center News

IU Indianapolis ScholarWorks Experiencing Downtime
ScholarWorks has been battling increased traffic from unwelcomed, mostly unidentified bots leading to performance issues.

I Love IU Indy photo contest recap
Last fall, The University Library hosted the I Love IU Indy photo contest in November. All photos that were submitted to this contest were uploaded to the Wiki-base repository for images, Wikimedia Commons, under the Category: Indiana University Indianapolis. 

IU Indianapolis' ScholarWorks Celebrates the Deposit of its 50,000th Item
On Tuesday, September 30, 2025, the University Library’s Center for Digital Scholarship reached a new milestone by depositing the 50,000th item into IU Indianapolis’s institutional repository, ScholarWorks. ScholarWorks was first launched in 2003 as a way to encourage open access sharing of works written by campus scholars. Since its creation, the repository has steadily grown into one of the largest institutional repositories in the state of Indiana.

Upcoming Events

Research Metrics for Promotion & Tenure: Session 1 
When: August 21, 1:30pm - 3:00pm
Where: Online
What: What will you learn? 

Needles in Haystacks: Finding Data for Your Research Project
When: September 03, 12:00pm - 1:00pm
Where: Asynchronous Online Workshop
What: With so many datasets available online, it can be difficult to know where to look to find the dataset that will meet your research project. To learn the basics of...

Teaching Data with ICPSR: Strategies for Success with or without Data
When: September 08, 3:00pm - 4:00pm
Where: Asynchronous Online Workshop
What: “I should use data in my classes, but…it’s a lot of work, I’m not an expert, there’s too much else to talk about, data are...

Consultations

Open Access

Expert: Jere Odell
Email: jdodell@iu.edu

Data Services

Expert: Corey Barber
Email: barberc@iu.edu

Journal Publishing and ScholarWorks

Expert: Rachel Molina
Email: ramolin@iu.edu

Research Information Management

Expert: Olivia MacIsaac
Email: omacisaa@iu.edu