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• Personal use or limited free distribution of photocopies. No permission is needed to photocopy up to 25 copies of NAEYC-copyrighted articles from Young Children and Teaching Young Children or excerpts from articles, or selections from NAEYC-copyrighted books, booklets, and brochures—as long as the copies are distributed at no cost and a credit to NAEYC is evident on each copy. Excerpts from a book cannot exceed more than one chapter of that book. Booklets and brochures may not be copied in their entirety, but brief excerpts may be used. Creating more than 25 copies (even for free distribution) requires written permission. Send written requests to NAEYC's permissions editor.
   
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• Academic photocopying. To obtain permission for academic photocopying (coursepackets, study manuals) by copy centers or university bookstores, contact: Academic Permissions Service, Copyright Clearance Center, ph 978-750-8400. 

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• Unless NAEYC is the copyright owner, NAEYC cannot grant permission to photocopy or republish. Instead, you must contact the copyright owner.
   
• In Young Children and Teaching Young Children, see the box at the end of each article, or the credit given inside the figure or sidebar box, for copyright information. In NAEYC’s books, see the credit given in the text itself or on the book’s copyright page. 
   
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• Single copies of recent issues of Young Children if available, cost $8.80/members or $11/nonmembers plus shipping. Purchase online or order by mail from: NAEYC Subs, P.O. Box 96270, Washington, DC 20090-6270; or fax 202-328-2649. Since 2004 the YC annual index is printed in each January issue (in November issues 1997–2003; in September issues prior to 1997). In addition, a comprehensive searchable index of abstracts of all articles published since November 1985 is online.
   
• Single copies of recent issues of Teaching Young Children if available, cost $4.00/members or $5.00/nonmembers plus shipping. Purchase online or order by mail from: NAEYC Subs, P.O. Box 96270, Washington, DC 20090-6270; or fax 202-328-2649.
   
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