Publisher Restrictions Regarding Copyright and Self-archiving Authors can check whether they are allowed by their publisher to upload the publisher's pdf of their article or chapters, or whether they can simply upload a copy of the final peer-reviewed manuscript, and what else is involved (e.g., linking to the published version with DOI). See website: http://www.sherpa.ac.uk/romeo/search.php (right click on link above then choose to open in new tab)