Iowa Research Online (IRO) is a service of the University of Iowa Libraries dedicated to preserving and providing open access to the research and creative scholarship of the University. University of Iowa Libraries staff works with university departments, research centers, and individual faculty to select, submit, and manage content. Members of the academic community are invited to contribute their completed scholarship for long-term preservation and worldwide electronic accessibility. Archiving content in IRO is free and allowed by many publishers. 

The type of content housed in IRO includes but is not limited to:

• journal publications (both pre- and post-print)
• conference papers and proceedings
• presentations
• working papers
• book chapters
• multimedia
• theses and dissertations
• creative works
• any other publications that are appropriate for a faculty member's CV

Content archived in Iowa Research Online is:

• discoverable by search engines such as Google and Google Scholar
• indexed and searchable in InfoHawk+, the University of Iowa Libraries' catalog
• hosted on a secure server and given a persistent URL to ensure permanent access
• registered with a digital object identifier (DOI) - for datasets, working papers, pre-prints, and accepted manuscripts
• openly accessible to researchers around the world who may have limited access to scholarly materials.