Karen Stoll Farrell's work is to support the IU community within the scholarly communication and publishing cycle. She guides the work of the department which includes journal and book publishing, Open Educational Resources, management of the institutional repository, research impact, and support for open access initiatives and collections. She also currently serves as the Director of the Dhar India Studies Program in the Hamilton Lugar School of Global and International Studies.
Stoll Farrell holds an M.A. (A.B.D.) in South Asian Studies from the University of Pennsylvania, an M.L.I.S. from Wayne State University, and a B.A. in Anthropology with minors in Religion and Women's Studies from Kalamazoo College. She began her work in libraries as the South and Southeast Asian Studies Librarian at IU Libraries in 2014. In 2016, she additionally became the head of the Area Studies Department in the Libraries. After a one-year term as interim head of the Scholars' Commons, Stoll Farrell took on the role of interim head of the Scholarly Communication Department in 2020, eventually becoming Director of Scholarly Communication and Open Publishing.
