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The University of Iowa Libraries' Scholarly Publishing Guide covers many issues in scholarly publishing. The section on Author Rights offers helpful information on communicating and negotiating with publishers to obtain permissions for self-archiving. SHERPA/RoMEO is a searchable database of journal publishers' self-archiving policies.

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